Janette Brossard
Introducing Visual Haikus, silkscreen
Introducing Visual Haikus, silkscreen
Haiku of Abstract Thought
Haiku of the Nocturnal
Haiku of Assimilation
Other Works by Janette Brossard
Janette Brossard Duharte is the President of Printmaking at the Cuban Union of Artists and Writers (UNEAC). She is a graduate of the Instituto Superior del Arte in Havana, and now lives in Guanabo. The images of her work are extracted from everyday life, public places, and domestic environments. They are linked to a contemporary interpretation of what the Cuban writer, Alejo Carpentier referred to as “real marvelous America”. His analysis is fundamentally based on the Cuban context to demonstrate different individual relationships when faced with certain situations, limitations, and all types of shortcomings. These peculiar circumstances derive from alternative solutions that demonstrate popular ingenuity and an acute sense of humor, both of which she takes advantage of in her work.
Her work gives continuity to a strong historical printmaking tradition based on social discourse. She uses different printmaking techniques, transgressing their limits and creating work, which is at the frontier between printmaking and painting. This approach allows her to take advantage of the matrix’s true values, which are habitually hidden to the viewer. Janette has exhibited her work in Cuba, Switzerland, England, Spain, Mexico, and the US and is part of many private and public collections.
Her work gives continuity to a strong historical printmaking tradition based on social discourse. She uses different printmaking techniques, transgressing their limits and creating work, which is at the frontier between printmaking and painting. This approach allows her to take advantage of the matrix’s true values, which are habitually hidden to the viewer. Janette has exhibited her work in Cuba, Switzerland, England, Spain, Mexico, and the US and is part of many private and public collections.
A Note form the Artist about her Visual Haikus
From the field of Japanese haikus come these visual haikus linked like a trio of verses. They represent a contemplation exercise of everyday life, of evocative moments, and of the environment. These visual haikus have the essential feelings and the condensed structure that the brief poetic Japanese compositions offer us. However, they are also a blend that expose certain paradoxes and questions about society. These poetic-visuals arise from the necessary return to nature and from the understanding that we should make the universe (objectual or not)
our partner.
From the field of Japanese haikus come these visual haikus linked like a trio of verses. They represent a contemplation exercise of everyday life, of evocative moments, and of the environment. These visual haikus have the essential feelings and the condensed structure that the brief poetic Japanese compositions offer us. However, they are also a blend that expose certain paradoxes and questions about society. These poetic-visuals arise from the necessary return to nature and from the understanding that we should make the universe (objectual or not)
our partner.