Lithography, from stone, 2 x autographed editions of each fourteen stone prints.
Size:
53cm X 56cm.
J.A.BRO'S Comments
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 compounded fragments are - evenly treated - included, in order to arrive at a purposeful complex connection a, so called, 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 at 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 Multimedia, 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.
Primarily, I am concerned with man himself, his/her manifold and multileveled 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 mirroring co-player in the general event.
Accordingly, also the lithography’s theme content, twice depicted here, (actually the first two of this kind) should be understood as "Catharsis", meaning in Greek "purification", a concept coined first by Aristotles, Greek philosopher (384 BC till 322), and which today appears in the meantime in different context meanings. Originally, it was introduced into the German language by Lessing (1729-1781), taken over by the Freudian 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,freelytakenover from Middle Ages’ master"Holbein The Younger" (1497/8-1543). Middle:"Existence Situation", see here: Questionable personality of pre- and post WWII not unexpectedly but still actively present in public life’s top position, up to its "discovery" 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 an 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.
