(This interesting time-document was freely created after Rembrandt’s painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp", 1632.)
JABRO’S unfinished masterpiece (1978/9) shows portraits of top politicians from different countries reigning to the time this artwork was begun.
In its left top corner, it includes also JABRO’S worldwide unique portrait of Professor Albert Einstein as "JANUS-HEAD” with his "sticked out" tongue, which was to that time never seen before, (1978/9), especially in connection being one of the exclusive participants of this special science’s summit. In addition and as JABRO’S “Contrast-Pair”, ©, the artist has created (in the painting’s bottom of the right-hand-side corner) Einstein’s complementing counterpart with the portrait of the Catholic (men-) church’s leader, such as the newly elected Pope John Paul II, (1978), now head of worldwide more than one billion Catholic believers.
Both of those extraordinary and admirable personalities are being "framed in frames" by their times faced with inflexible, often questionable standards, senseless and antiquated rules and inhuman conventions, described by JABRO as limitative and bordered "Pictures in Picture", or "Paintings in Painting", ©.
As the representative of his Catholic (still powerful) men-church and from his painted position, the Pope is looking to a proudly domed and pompously breasted, so called "Dove of Peace", positioned on the same (bottom-) level, but across the Pope’s view in keeping a “face to face” countenance.
The entire scenery with its broadly faceted and critical themes, as well with its symbolical spirituality, makes the offer to discover any societal and spiritual connections in form of JABRO’S “Contrast-Pairs”. One of its oppositional symbols means to be a physically killed and now naked and featherless goose, waiting near the spiritually immortal “dove of peace” to be "dressed and served".
Among other within connected symbols, such as the "Framed Trilogy" of somehow questionable "status symbols" like DOCTORATE HAT, PRINCE CARNEVAL HAT and POPE MITRA-HAT, boasting ideological, spiritual and representational unity of “THREE In ONE” on painting’s top level right-hand-side corner! Even unfinished - the impressive “Sir DEATH”, as lesson-teacher’s solely headmaster, is powerfully closing the struggling life-circle of all living creatures. In making sense of JABRO’S “Contrast-Pairs” some of them are humans lost with their never ending, but illusive hope on any kind of rebirth and /or spiritual resurrection from the mundane rotten dirt and its, in fact, eternally damned and damped dead. On “Sir DEATH’S” left hand side is another “framed portrait”, shown also as “Framed Painting in Painting”, ©. In this case JABRO has painted the great physician Professor Doctor Julius Hackethal, the truly and only positive WHITE KNIGHT of his time and country. He was always untiring in his most applaudable and courageous fight against ruthless corruption and cowardly covering of deadly failures among his colleagues “In White”. This brave and beautiful human being behaved always in an idealistic manner, by genuinely standing true to the oath of the great ancient Greek physician HIPPOCRATES. Unfortunately, likewise all great human beings, he was unfairly isolated and baselessly criminalised by the poorly intelligent authorities of his country of birth and certainly by his guilty colleagues knowing very well that he was right. Despite unfair corruption and baseless character assassinations through illegally acting authorities, the brave Dr. Julius Hackethal impressively could prove by about ninety-seven percent (97 %) of court-cases that the death of many patients would have been avoidable by more knowledge, more skills and less mediocrity of the “death-bringer In White”!
NOTE:
In 1979, this unfinished JABRO masterwork has been exhibited (together with other remarkable works of the artist) in a famous facility in Germany. Interestingly enough and contrary to JABRO’S other masterworks, at the exhibition opening it has been permanently photographed (for more than thirty minutes) by a flock of newspaper- journalists elbowing in a crowd in front of that special painting.
Afterwards, a cartoon was published in one of the capital city’s newspapers containing elements of this unique "JABRO-Graphicpainting", including a simple sketch with Professor A. Einstein and his "sticked out tongue".
As mentioned, worldwide unique, it first was seen on JABRO’S "Anatomy’s Dissection Of A World’s Political Corpse", 1978/79, ©, based on an old newspaper print JABRO has discovered ages ago and kept for good. Though, it was possible to use it for the JABRO painting’s subjective sublimation as a thematic and figurative part of her masterwork.
In the Seventies, the assumed once-a-time published photo with Einstein and his "sticked-out tongue" was to that time unknown and still got nowhere attention up to the point, JABRO has used it for her unique, but unfinished magnum opus, photographed by a flock of journalists over a period of about thirty minutes!!
That means, AFTER the opening of JABRO’S artwork exhibition and its within connected "photo-session" of many journalists participating, this unknown, but very special Einstein-photo then has been more and more published in different ways during the following years.
In fact, JABRO was in this case and by other occasions too the "trail-blazer" of this photo in 1978, because today it is well known around the world. |
