Pretentious Yet Pointless
A notable feature of this piece is the strongly curved downward flying elements contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality to indicate the spiritual dimension and its endless possibilities. The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind delicate lissome curvilinear forms... This striking piece is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the world of salt and sugar where the scale and openness to the image is a primary natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our physiology. A central underlying meaning of this sculpture is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting happiness and ecstasy to indicate in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive appreciation. Sol Aris has not completed the colour pallette of this image.
Such forms, both serene and poetic, create strong gestalt sensations. The artist avoids a limited canvas to contain the colours, which can by this means stand alone. This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the here and now experience of size and perception where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is the spiritual dimension and its limitless possibilities.
``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]