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1974
As he made clear later in his own commentary
(Astrology: Signs of the Zodiac), the paintings are
more than illustrations of the traditional Zodiac.
They combine signs and images from Cabbala,
Magick, Alchemy and the Tarot to become a
complex and graduated series of meditations. An
acquaintance with the doctrines of Neo-Platonism,
Hermeticism, and the Cabbala underlies their
composition, and invites the viewer to contemplate
these works as doorways to self-transcendence.
In his Unio Mystica, Hermes Trismegistos, and
The Zodiac Series, Johfra’s Hermetic works reached
their resounding climax. He unerringly displayed a
singular talent, indeed, a genius for symbolic
thinking. For, the artist not only penetrated into the
meaning of these traditional esoteric symbols, but
aligned and arranged them in new, unusually
creative and meaningful ways.
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PISCES
1974
Iconography aside, these major Hermetic works
are also high artistic accomplishments. His years of
sketching and painting permitted him to render
anatomy, drapery, poses, light, atmosphere, texture,
clouds, landscapes, and nature in a masterly way.
The telluric and organic textures from the
Mindscapes are here, both in the backgrounds and
the framing elements; they provide the paintings
with a fantastic quality. But his fine studies from
Nature are also in evidence: accurate animal
anatomy, plants, leaves, flowers and trees all
rendered with exactitude. In the Pisces, we even
behold once more the underwater coralline growths
and anemones that so fascinated him in Out of the
Egg thirty years ago.
THE FULL SERIES OF ZODIAC SIGNS
ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING IN
THE JOHFRA GALLERY III: PERIGORD NOIR
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