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J.A.BRO's Comments
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An artist, especially the painter/graphic artist should - I think - not primarily restrict himself
in his work to solving purely technical - artistic, at best colour or formal problems, but, given
factual awareness and handling of these aspects, should try in addition to find a meaning and its
believable interpretation, whereby the painting technique, colouring and compositoric moments are -
evenly treated - included, in order to arrive at a purposeful complex connection, at a subjectively
determined coordinate system. As the artist, especially the painter/graphic artist (writer), may
consciously or (partly) unconsciously develop to be a reflector of his subjectively comprehended
environment and furthermore advance to be a representative of the social system of the day into
which he/she was born, corresponding contents of consciousness may offer themselves for creation at
visual, manual, or verbal levels, but under the condition that a general desire to information
exists concerning interhuman relations and problems, like for instance within the areas: family,
school, workplace, syndicates, local government activities, cultural, economic and every-day
politics in the home, country and abroad. The subjective comprehension and reflection of the
individual artist and citizen through such facts, amongst other things, also publicized through the
media, like press, radio, television, may therefore be freed of the claim to purely political or
scientific, highly qualified specialist knowledge, whereby an uncritical acceptance of generally
valid ideas should be avoided. I am primarily concerned with man himself, his/her manifold and
multilevelled self-presentation amidst other self - (spectator) show presenters with limited and
restricted presence on an apocalyptic theatre stage, whereby the artist is not an objective
spectator from the outside, but is tightly anchored as a co-player in the general event.
Accordingly, also the lithography, twice depicted here, (the first of this kind) should be
understood: "Catharsis", meaning in Greek "purification", a concept coined first by Aristoteles,
Greek philosopher (384 BC till 322), and which today appears in the meantime in different context
meanings, originally introduced into the German language by Lessing (1729-1781), taken over by the
psychoanalysis and in the various time periods of the theatre history was taken up and accepted
again and again in their theories. Contrary to the generally customary concept of the logical
process of movement: Beginning, middle, end, the given theme was treated back-to-front here, as for
instance: Left: "Death". see here: Corpse of" Jesus Christ in the grave by "Holbein The Younger"
(1497/8-1543). Middle: "Existence Situation", see here: Personality of public life in the year of
1978. Right: "Beginning of awareness see here child, dressed as sailor. The combination of the
different contents and the corresponding visual presentations into a unified theme complex (in
whose further course the portrayal in the middle is subjected to additional use), seem like a
perfect human tragic-comedy (almost in the classical style already) on the apocalyptic stage,
presented here, without regard to whatever viewpoint it might be looked at and analysed.
J.A.BRO. © August 1978
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