Pretentious Yet Pointless
An interesting side of this doodle is the arena of contrasting dark and light contrasting strongly with the world of colour and space so clearly visible. The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but transformed. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the subtly contorted quickly soaring articulations where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. In this work Sol Aris depicts the relationship between sugar and wine. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the shapes where the essential identity to the image is the essential contrast between pattern and texture. This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the world of salt and pepper where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the carving is the sensuality of extinction. Contrasts of the senses of smell and sound emphasise the foreground of this drawing. In this sketch Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between colour and space. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... An important part of this particular image is that it is a reflection of the process of creation. A notable feature of this doodle is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the world of salt and pepper of the work. The subtly curved quickly reaching elements of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but in a different form.
A perpetually changing evanescence, the relationship of the spectator of which never changes, is sometimes entirely altered by the mere presence of the onlooker.
An important part of the work is that it is the eternal dimension and its endless possibilities.
``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]