Pretentious Yet Pointless
The artist uses a limited canvas to define the colours, which in this way float free. The adorned ground belies the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang. Such forms, serene and majestic, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the work into the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work. This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the shapes where the relationship of the viewer to the piece is the essential difference between pattern and texture. Contrasts of salt and pepper dominate the foreground of this painting. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but transformed.
Semiotically, we see the leading centralism for strength curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy.
``It is important to know under what circumstances simultaneous effects will occur and how they can be counteracted. There are many problems in colour that preclude solutions using simultaneous contrast.''
[Johannes Itten, The Art of Color]