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The document discusses the artist Johfra and his artistic evolution and style. It describes how his earlier landscapes evolved to feature human and animal forms called drummels in the foreground. His works also advanced in rendering mineral and vegetal forms in intricate detail.

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JOHFRAWORKS pg05

The document discusses the artist Johfra and his artistic evolution and style. It describes how his earlier landscapes evolved to feature human and animal forms called drummels in the foreground. His works also advanced in rendering mineral and vegetal forms in intricate detail.

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VISIONARY REVUE http://visionaryrevue.com/webtext2/jofworks5.

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VISIONARY REVUE PARIS - SPRING 2003

SPRING MORNING THE LONESOME LIFE


1957 1961

(Click on any image to enlarge)

NOSTALGIA FOR LEMURIA


1961

Which is to say, Johfra became more obsessed


with organic growth as manifest in human and
animal forms, rather than the earlier plant and
From these sketchbooks, the drummels then mineral kinds. The substance of his imagination had
began to invade his paintings. During Johfra’s life now acquired eyes to see, hands to grasp, and
with Diana, these humorous and bizarre mouths to gape, kiss, or devour.
reconfigurations of human anatomy became the However, it should be stressed that the pure
dominant theme. The organic growths of his earlier ‘Mindstuff Landscapes’ also persisted during this
interior landscapes had undergone a time. Though the drummel was the major evolution
transformation. While the coralline textures and in subject matter, his interior landscapes also
fungus growths moved into the background of his showed a slow but remarkable advance in the
painting, the drummels now advanced into the rendering of mineral and vegetal forms - here
foreground. appearing like petrified wood, there like frozen ice,
or elsewhere as liquid crystal.

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