Thursday, August 3, 2017

Jos de Mey: pictures full of secret meaning





Most of all, this Flemish artist became famous for a thorough and realistic depiction of non-existent structures. He is also honored and remembered by all his students, whom he taught for forty years the art of color and design. The artist did not become five years ago, he left because of a long, debilitating illness. But the wonderful works created by him, remained.




Most of his paintings depict an owl - tiny or very large. Jos de Mey (Jos de Mey) called her "alter ego". In Holland, this bird is a symbol of knowledge and, at the same time, denotes a stupid person. And also someone who wants to seem stupid. The best example is Till Eulenspiegel, the hero of the Flemish legends. In it the most organically combined and intelligent, and stupid. To all of the above, it is worth adding that the "alternative self" psychologists call the presence of the second person in the same person, his other essence, the person inside the person.

Each of the paintings of Jose de May has a very long name. It gives an explanation to the image or, more often, makes the work even more mysterious. Now, when the artist is no longer with us, there is no explanation, and the names are understandable only to people whose native language is Dutch. Because the names of paintings is an untranslatable play on words. The same semantic indexes are also contained in the artist's signatures under the paintings. In fact, this is his name or autograph. But the fact is that there will not be two identical ones. They are deliberately left on different subjects that have a secret meaning. I would like to hope that future generations will always manage to find and understand it.


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