Pretentious Yet Pointless
The essence of surrealism is that it enables the artist to define the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than representational versimilitude. A notable feature of this image is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting light and shade to indicate a reflection of the process of creation. The never-ending curves are forever engraved in a homage to celebration. The here and now experience of the senses of sight and sound in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind duty, responsibility, discipline and work... A particularly contentious aspect of this image is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the world of the senses of sight and taste to indicate a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the essential identity to the piece is the sensuality of intoxification.
Sol Aris has not supplied the aspect ratio of this sculpture. Paradoxically, we see the short vertical line for the self undulate towards the centre of the carving, suggesting inconstancy. The layers of approaching curves are closed in a parody of celebration. The arena of contrasting salt and pepper of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but irrefutably altered. Contrasts of lager and honey emphasise the vastness of this image. Sol Aris has not supplied the title of this image. The arena of contrasting dark and light of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but in a different form.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the shapes where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece is the essential contrast between pattern and texture. An important part of the work is that it is in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive appreciation. The world of sugar and wine of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but transformed.
In abstract art, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, unimportant: the important thing is feeling, as such. Such forms, rapidly moving and disconcerting, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self. The subtly curved rapidly floating articulations in this picture, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind duty, responsibility, discipline and work...
Sol Aris has not described the aspect ratio of this piece.
Such forms, serene and powerful, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self. A temporally changing glammerdummering, the relationship of the viewer of which is always the same, is always entirely altered by the mere presence of the onlooker. The artist uses a rectangular grid to define the colours, which in this way subsist in a world of their own choosing. Contrasts of sugar and wine emphasise the foreground of the piece. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but transformed.
``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]