{"id":20745,"date":"2021-07-26T16:38:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20745"},"modified":"2021-07-26T16:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:38:31","slug":"jorgen-bobergs-teresas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/07\/26\/jorgen-bobergs-teresas\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorgen Boberg&#8217;s Teresas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boberg1.jpg\" alt=\"boberg1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Teresa Egg.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Danish artist Jorgen Boberg (1940\u20132009) described these early artworks as Surrealist, but if they have to be pigeonholed then Fantastic Realism may be as good a description. Everything here is from a feature in <a href=\"http:\/\/avantgarde.110west40th.com\/volumes\/volume-12#1\" target=\"_blank\">issue 12 of <em>Avant Garde<\/em> magazine<\/a> for May 1970, and at first glance I thought the paintings and etchings might be the work of Ernst Fuchs, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. (Fuchs&#8217; art <em>did<\/em> appear in <a href=\"http:\/\/avantgarde.110west40th.com\/volumes\/volume-9#1\" target=\"_blank\">issue 9 of the same magazine<\/a>.) Boberg at this stage in his career shared with Fuchs a preoccupation with bodily metamorphosis, jewelled forms and religious iconography. All the pictures in this feature have &#8220;Teresa&#8221; in their titles, although whether the name refers to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila\" target=\"_blank\">Teresa of \u00c1vila<\/a> or to a private fixation of the artist isn&#8217;t clear.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boberg2.jpg\" alt=\"boberg2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Teresa&#8217;s Dream of Birth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boberg3.jpg\" alt=\"boberg3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Metamorphosis of Teresa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boberg4.jpg\" alt=\"boberg4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Teresa&#8217;s Dream of the Temple.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/11\/10\/ernst-fuchs-1930-2015\/\">Ernst Fuchs, 1930\u20132015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-fantastic-art-archive\/\">The fantastic art archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Teresa Egg. Danish artist Jorgen Boberg (1940\u20132009) described these early artworks as Surrealist, but if they have to be pigeonholed then Fantastic Realism may be as good a description. Everything here is from a feature in issue 12 of Avant Garde magazine for May 1970, and at first glance I thought the paintings and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/07\/26\/jorgen-bobergs-teresas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jorgen Boberg&#8217;s Teresas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Jorgen Boberg's Teresas","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,43,44,18],"tags":[724,11680],"class_list":["post-20745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-magazines","category-painting","category-surrealism","tag-ernst-fuchs","tag-jorgen-boberg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5oB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}