Pretentious Yet Pointless
In this sculpture Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between night and day. Contrasts of the passive hand and unshod feet dominate the broad scope of this image. In this work Sol Aris delineates the relationship between summer and winter.
This painting is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the world of light and shade where the essential identity to the image is the essential difference between pattern and texture. The viewer is drawn by the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of the work into the world of images steeped in meaning and emotive power. The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind invaluable cultural icons...
``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]