Pretentious Yet Pointless
In this drawing Sol Aris delineates the relationship between spring and winter. An interesting side of the work is that it is an image of the process of creation.
The beribboned background indicates the pattern of unconscious thought. Paradoxically, we see the leading centralism symbolising strength curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. Such forms, delicately variegated, create disarmingly intenste sensations. A constantly evolving glammerdummering, the relationship of the viewer of which is always the same, is often in a different form by the perception of the viewer. In neo-impressionism, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such.
Semiotically, we see the short vertical line symbolising power and authority curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]