{"id":9741,"date":"2011-07-28T02:57:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T01:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9741"},"modified":"2011-07-28T04:59:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T03:59:24","slug":"the-art-of-johfra-bosschart-1919-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/07\/28\/the-art-of-johfra-bosschart-1919-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Johfra Bosschart, 1919\u20131998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/visionaryrevue.com\/webtext2\/jofedit1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/johfra1.jpg\" alt=\"johfra1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Adoration of Pan triptych (1979).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The hyper-detailed paintings of this Dutch artist, who often seems to be referred to by his forename alone, were self-described as &#8220;Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism&#8221;. All bases are covered, in other words, and the work is certainly furious and intense at its best even if it&#8217;s not always to my taste. Some of Johfra&#8217;s Monsters from the Id are closer to Basil Wolverton than HR Giger which makes for unintentional comedy. As usual with detailed artwork, it&#8217;s a shame the reproductions on offer aren&#8217;t a larger size.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/visionaryrevue.com\/webtext2\/jofedit1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/johfra2.jpg\" alt=\"johfra2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Moldoror series: The Hermaphrodite (1976).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pictures here are from <a href=\"http:\/\/visionaryrevue.com\/webtext2\/jofedit1.html\" target=\"_blank\">one of the online numbers of <em>Visionary Review<\/em><\/a> which a biography and <a href=\"http:\/\/visionaryrevue.com\/webtext2\/jofgall1.html\" target=\"_blank\">several galleries<\/a> of work from different periods of Johfra&#8217;s career. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/thombeau.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/johfra.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thom<\/a> for the reminder about this artist.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<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 Adoration of Pan triptych (1979). The hyper-detailed paintings of this Dutch artist, who often seems to be referred to by his forename alone, were self-described as &#8220;Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism&#8221;. All bases are covered, in other words, and the work is certainly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/07\/28\/the-art-of-johfra-bosschart-1919-1998\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Johfra Bosschart, 1919\u20131998&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,21,16,44,18],"tags":[2762,720,2763],"class_list":["post-9741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fantasy","category-occult","category-painting","category-surrealism","tag-basil-wolverton","tag-hr-giger","tag-johfra-bosschart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2x7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741","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=9741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}