Pretentious Yet Pointless
Unexpectedly, we see the short vertical line for strength curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The major feature of constructive colour theory is that it encourages the viewer to define the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than weight. A temporally evolving glammerdummering, the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of which is always the same, is often transformed by the mere presence of the onlooker. A central underlying meaning of the work is that it is not completely concrete.
In abstract art, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, unimportant: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. The receding curves are forever engraved in a tribute to celebration.
``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]