Scribd
Upload
18 views1 page

JOHFRAWORKS pg03

The document discusses two paintings by Dutch artist Johfra titled Psychological Self Portrait from 1996 and Birth Dream from 1945. It describes how Psychological Self Portrait depicts Johfra amid organic forms representing his mind's dark interior. Birth Dream shows organic rocks forming a stairway with a figure leaping into the light, representing spiritual transcendence.

Uploaded by

Mário Apolinário
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
18 views1 page

JOHFRAWORKS pg03

The document discusses two paintings by Dutch artist Johfra titled Psychological Self Portrait from 1996 and Birth Dream from 1945. It describes how Psychological Self Portrait depicts Johfra amid organic forms representing his mind's dark interior. Birth Dream shows organic rocks forming a stairway with a figure leaping into the light, representing spiritual transcendence.

Uploaded by

Mário Apolinário
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

VISIONARY REVUE http://visionaryrevue.com/webtext2/jofworks3.

html

VISIONARY REVUE PARIS - SPRING 2003

PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF-PORTRAIT (1996)


(Psychologisch zelfportret )

And indeed, a late work painted two years


before his death harkened back to these earlier
interior landscapes, which we shall call ‘Mindstuff
Landscapes’ or even ‘Mindscapes’. The late work,
appropriately entitled Psychological Self Portrait
(1996), presents the aging Johfra amid the fibres
and fungi that constitute his mind’s dark interior.
Throughout Johfra’s career, the substance of his
imagination will manifest itself in these varying
combinations of organic forms, be they mineral,
vegetable, animal or human. Shape, texture, growth,
and movement - all will fascinate him to no end. But BIRTH DREAM (1945)
the intense colours we see in the early works will (Geboortdroom)
soon disappear forever.
Another work from the early period reveals,
beyond this fascination with the mind’s interior
(Click on any image to enlarge)
forms, a striving for spiritual transcendence and an
ultimate union with the light. In Birth Dream (1945),
the organic rocks form an upward-mounting
stairway. Meanwhile, from their summit, a singular
figure leaps into the light. Such obviously esoteric
themes will not appear in his work for atleast
another fifteen years.

<--LAST PAGE NEXT PAGE -->

HOME EDITORIAL JOHFRA: JOHFRA: HERMETIC PANTHEIST


THE LIFE THE WORKS JOHFRA JOHFRA

1 de 1 16/02/2017 15:46

You might also like