Pretentious Yet Pointless
The viewer is drawn by the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of the image into the world of invaluable cultural icons. The world of the senses of smell and taste in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind epistemology of space and quintessential hereness... The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The beribboned background enriches a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The never-ending curves are closed in a tribute to abstract art. In neo-impressionism, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, meaningless: the important thing is feeling, as such.
``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]