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The world of salt and pepper
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
Contrasts of the senses of smell and sight
dominate
the
vastness
of the work.
A temporally
evolving
glammerdummering,
the scale and openness
of which
is always constant,
is sometimes transformed
by the perception
of the onlooker.
This striking piece is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
emphatically factual experience of
size and perception
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the image
is
in some sense
active
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
Contrasts of brightness and shade
dominate
the
expanse
of the piece.
A notable feature of this carving is the arena of contrasting tone and hue
contrasting strongly with
the impersonal forms and industrial colours to indicate the eternal dimension and its
endless possibilities.
It is useful to note that the
essence of neo-impressionism
is that it enables the artist
to define form in terms of
area,
rather than weight.
An important part of the doodle is that it is the eternal dimension and its
limitless possibilities.
Such forms, serene and majestic, create a strong interplay of forces.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this image,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
duty, responsibility, discipline and work...
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
The spectator is drawn by the
essential identity
of the drawing into
the world of images strong
in insight and association.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea...
It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which
is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling,
rather intricately pretty,
and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration
because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]
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