| ... J.A.BRO. TRANSCENDS THE VISUAL MESSAGE OF HER PAINTINGS BY COMMUNICATIONS FROM WITHIN. IF SHE PAINTS A DOLL IT STILL REMAINS A DOLL BUT ALSO BECOMES A PSYCHOLOGICALLY COMPREHENDED DECLARATION ABOUT HUMANS. THE POWER OF REVELATION BECOMES EXALTED IN AN ENORMOUSLY IMPRESSIVE MANNER BY THE CONTRAST OF PORCELAIN DESIGN AND UNDERSCORED MESSAGE. THE PAINTINGS POSSESS MULTIPLE FRAMES. IT IS INSUFFICIENT TO SAY "MYSTICAL" BECAUSE DREAM AND MYSTICISM BECOME SO APPARENT BEHIND THE DOLL APPEARANCES LIKE A DISTINCTLY COMPREHENSIBLE REALITY. REAL AND SURREAL. THE ARTIST HERSELF CALLS THE MANNER OF HER UNUSUAL PICTURE-COMPOSITIONS A "SEEMING NON-SPHERE"... |
"In Focus" (Im Blickpunkt) -- 15 - 10 - 80 |
| ...UNUSUAL IN DISSERTATION AND TECHNIQUE ARE THE WORKS OF J.A.BRO. SHE IS A PAINTER, DISTINGUISHED WITH PRIZES AND RECOGNIZED IN THIS COUNTRY AND ABROAD. ...DOLLS PLAY A DOMINANT ROLE IN HER PAINTINGS. HER MODELS ARE TAKEN FROM HER (ANTIQUE) DOLL COLLECTION. BUT THESE DOLLS, BY ALL MEANS, DO NOT REFLECT AN UNHARMED WORLD BUT THE EXACT CONTRARY. SOCIOCRITICAL RADIOGRAPHS OF INTERHUMAN RELATIONS, SURREALISTIC PICTURE ELEMENTS AND SYMBOLS ARE THE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF HER WORKS THROUGH WHICH SHE EMBARKS IN A WORLD BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSIBLE INTELLIGENCE. ...HER PICTURES ARE PAINTED IN FASHION OF THE "OLD MASTERS" AND IN THIS COMPOSITION A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF PAINTING AND GRAPHIC ART. TRANSPARENT LAYERS UPON EACH OTHER THE GLOSSY SURFACES RADIATE LIKE ENAMEL. THE ARTIST HAS THEN TOPPED THE SURFACES WITH DELICATE LACES AND OTHER DETAILS PAINTED WITH BRUSH OR PEN... |
Hamburg Evening News/Norderstedt News -- 17 - 11 - 1980 |
| ...SO EACH OF HER PAINTINGS IS AN ARTWORK, PAINTED IN AN ELABORATE TECHNIQUE, SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE "OLD MASTERS", PAINTED WITH MUCH DEDICATION OF THE DETAIL, AESTHETICAL IN EXPRESSION, COWEB-LIKE SHE DRAWS WITH A FINE PEN FILMY-TENDER LACES OVER HER FIGURES WHICH NEVER PRETEND A PARADISE BUT ARE ALWAYS SOCIOCRITICALLY PLACED IN SPACE. ...AMONG OTHERS THESE WORDS ARE SUITED BEST TO CHARACTERIZE THIS HIGHLY TALENTED FEMALE ARTIST... |
Esslinger Newspaper -- 15 - 12 - 1978 |
| ...IT WOULD BE HIGHLY DESIRABLE, IF THE PAINTINGS OF J.A.BRO. COULD BE EXHIBITED IN CONNECTION WITH HER ANTIQUE DOLLS IN THE MUSEUM OF GMÜND. SUCH AN EXHIBITION WOULD PROVE AN ESSENTIAL ENRICHMENT FOR THE ART SCENE OF GMÜND CITY... |
Gmünd Daily News -- Christmas 1978 |
| ...HER PICTURES PAINTED WITH AN ADMIRABLE PERFECTION, DEDICATION AND SERIOUSNESS DESERVE OUR FULL ATTENTION. ...WHAT I AM CONCERNED THE PICTURES EMBARK FOR A WORLD (OR OUT OF A WORLD), WHICH CAN CONSCIOUSLY BE CHARACTERIZED AS PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL, AS A META-WORLD. ...NOT DESPITE BUT BECAUSE J.A.BRO. APPROACHES THE VISUAL WORLD WITH A CHILDLIKE INNOCENT BUT NEVERTHELESS CRITICAL VIEW, SHE SUCCEEDS IN LOOKING THROUGH IT AS IF USING A DISSECTING LASER BEAM. ...HER COMPANION ON HER CONQUERING CRUSADES IS THE COLDNESS OF HER REFLECTING INTELLECT WITH WHICH SHE BREAKS UP CONVENTIONAL BOUNDARIES THE SAME SHE INDEED ACTUALLY PAINTS ACROSS FRAMES OF AN OFFSET PRINT. ...SHE BREAKS OUT OF GIVEN BOUNDARIES BECAUSE SHE HERSELF WANTS TO LIVE FREELY AND BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT WANT TO BE HELD CAPTIVE BY A WORLD WHICH ITSELF BLEW ITS SEAMS... |
Gerhard Eike HÜGEL, Ph.D -- Art Historian |
| ...UNUSUAL FASCINATING WORKS OIL PAINTINGS, GRAPHICS AND SCULPTURAL ELEMENTS. ...PAINTING AND GRAPHIC ART, CONNECTED IN A NEW MANNER IN HER ARTIST EXPRESSIONS THE FEMALE ARTIST IS CONCERNED WITH THE SOCIOCRITICAL PROBLEMS OF PRESENT TIME, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF INTERHUMAN RELATIONS. IN THIS CONCEPT THE ARTIST EXPRESSED HER LONG LASTING ARTIST REQUEST IN THE PSYCHOANALYTICALLY INTERESTING FIELD OF MULTIPLE POSSIBILITIES OF INTERHUMAN RELATIONS. ...AFTER LONG-LASTING STUDIES WITH THE TEACHING OF S. FREUD, J.A.BRO. THEN ASSOCIATED HERSELF WITH THE CONVICTIONS OF THE MODERN PSYCHOANALYSTS JUNG AND ADLER. ...THE ARTIST INTERCONNECTS IN HER UNUSUAL PAINTINGS, WHICH ARE CREATED INDEPENDENTLY OF PUBLIC FANCY, GRAPHIC ART AND PAINTING IN A PRECISE METICULOUS TECHNIQUE WHICH REMINDS OF THE WORKS OF THE "OLD MASTERS" IN HER PREFERENCE TO THE DETAIL. MANY OF J.A.BRO'S WORKS ARE BASED ON MODELS OF HER COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE DOLLS. SEVERAL OF THESE RARITIES CAN ACTUALLY BE VIEWED IN THE COURSE OF THE EXHIBITION. MANY OF HER EXHIBITED WORKS ARE ON LOAN FROM PRIVATE OWNERS. ...IN SUMMER 1980 J.A.BRO. HAD A WELL RECEIVED EXHIBITION OF HER WORKS IN THE BROADCASTING BUILDING KIEL. AN EXTENSIVE EXHIBITION IS ANTICIPATED EARLY 1981 IN THE HISTORICAL TOWN HALL OF HAMBURG... |
Bad Segeberg News -- 11 - 11 - 1980 |
| ... J.A.BRO. IS A PAINTER OF OCCURRENCES WITHIN THE SOUL. WHAT REPEATEDLY SHOWS UP IN HER PAINTINGS IS A DISGUISED TRAUMA: A LACERATION AND SENSIBLE FRAGILITY MANIFESTING ITSELF HERE IN A STATIC SOLITARY FIGURE, THERE AGAIN IN PROGRESSING ROW OF PHYSIQUES. REALIZING THE MESSAGE OF HER PICTURE MOTIVES ONE RECOGNIZES THE TRAUMA IN THE SACRIFICE OF THE CHILDHOOD. THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDIUM TO MANIFEST THIS IS THE DOLL. ...THE ARTIFICIAL CREATURES FILL THE PICTURE, SOMETIMES EVEN TRANSGRESSING IT, ICONLIKE OSTENSIBLY ISOLATED, DIRECTLY FACING THE VIEWER. SPACE BACKGROUNDS ARE DARK. BEING BLUE, BLACK OR DARK BROWN THEY APPEAR LIKE SPACE LAYERS BUT DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ABSORB THE PHYSIQUES. SO ALL ATMOSPHERIC IS DISTANT: PRIMARILY THE PICTURE GROUND IS THE STAGE FOR THE LONE FIGURE OR THE GROUP OF CHARACTERS THROUGH WHICH THE PICTURE CONTENT, THE PICTURE EXPRESSION - MOSTLY MORE PICTURE-LAMENTATION THAN ACCUSATION - ARTICULATES ITSELF. THEREFORE THE FIGURE USUALLY PRODUCES ITSELF IN GREAT DETAIL AND IN PRECISE PLASTIC SHAPE, A REPRESENTATION APPROXIMATING SURREALISM BUT MORE BELONGING INTO THE SPHERE OF THE "PHANTASTISCHER VERISMUS". WHEREVER THE PICTURE IDEA NECESSITATES SEVERAL CHARACTER GROUPS THEY ARE JOINTLY ADDED. NEVERTHELESS IS THE PICTURE APPEARANCE ALWAYS DEALT WITH AS A UNIT. ...THE PERFECT MASTERING OF FORMAL PICTURE ELEMENTS AND THE SELF-RELIANCE OF J.A.BRO'S PICTURE-WORLD WILL SOON GUARANTEE HER EXCELLENT REVIEWS ALTHOUGH THE COMPREHENSION OF THIS UNIQUE ART MIGHT NOT BE EASY FOR SOME FRIENDS OF THE ARTS... |
Hermann Baumhauer, Ph.D. -- Art Historian |
| ...UNUSUAL ARE THE WORKS OF J.A.BRO. IN RESPECT TO THE THEME AND TECHNIQUE. IN PAINSTAKING, TIME CONSUMING EFFORT SHE PAINTS TRANSPARENT LAYERS UPON LAYERS AND FINALLY REACHES A PICTURE SURFACE RESEMBLING SHIMMERING AND GLEAMING ENAMEL... |
Stuttgart News -- 06 - 10 - 1978 |
| ...ON THE OCCASION OF A COMMON EXHIBITION THE FEMALE ARTIST J.A.BRO. EXHIBITS HER WORKS SEPARATELY IN THE MUSIC HALL OF THE ANCIENT CITY-HALL (PATRIOTIC BUILDING) IN HAMBURG. AT THE VERNISSAGE SHE WILL BE AWARDED THE "EUROPE MEDAL IN GOLD FOR ART & CULTURE" BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL SOCIETY BADEN-BADEN MR. HANS-DETLEF KLIMAS. WITH THIS AWARD ESPECIALLY THE ARTIST'S WORK "ALLEGORY OF LIFE, PART I WITH THE PORTRAIT OF DR. KONRAD ADENAUER" WILL BE APPRECIATED... Public Relation Brochure about J.A.BRO'S Exhibitions -- 1980/81 |
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