Pretentious Yet Pointless
Sol Aris has not completed the title of this sketch. The adorned ground indicates not completely abstract. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the work into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time. In post-impressionistic art, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. An interesting aspect of this particular image is that it is a reflection of the process of creation.
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owe little to the appearance of observed reality.'' [Brian Keeble, on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11, London, 1990, p.114]