Pretentious Yet Pointless
The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the painting into the world of similitude of summer and winter. The shapes in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind images strong in meaning and emotion... This doodle is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the shapes where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension. This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the scale and openness to the piece is the sensuality of intoxification. The artist uses a limited canvas to define the colours, which in this way float free. Such forms, quietly formal, create strong gestalt sensations. The drawing shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Such forms, quietly formal, create disarmingly strong sensations.
In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, empty: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]