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J. Porat - Conversations with Kafka Prof. Nurit Govrin: Jacob Porat's Kafka The paintings of Jacob Porat converse with Kafka on the backdrop of Kafka's home city -- Prague - in a multi-layer "correspondence". One layer is Porat's paintings. The second consists of photographed sites in Prague. The third includes pen drawings made by Kafka, and the fourth depicts Kafkaesque situations taken from Kafka's works. And the fifth layer is that of the viewer, who draws near the paintings to look and reveal the worlds hidden inside, one on top of the other, one coming out of the other. The longer one looks at the paintings, the more details are discovered and layers excavated, the complexity of the worlds depicted proliferates and deepens. The viewers bring themselves to the paintings. However, the more versed they are in Porat's artistic world, the more real their familiarity with Prague, and the more they feel at home in Kafka's works, the more responsive they become to the paintings. They can then interpret them by peeling off layer after layer of the open meaning, of a symbol never fully construed. Jacob Porat is distinguished by his search for different, various forms of expression. The exhibitions he has held throughout the years expose the constant and changing elements of his works in all possible aspects: techniques, compositions, and themes. Although evident in his work, his literary education does not make his paintings an illustration of literary writings. Rather, it serves as the driving force of the painting, an enabler of deeper expression and intricacy of the visual statement. Porat's paintings have a life of their own, and these lives have been an integral part of his works since he has begun painting to date. His works in general, and "Conversations with Kafka" in particular, strike a correct balance between the "painting instinct", which is based on intuition and talent and the intellect that is aware of itself and of the literary interpretation of themes. Porat's continuous pursuit is associated with his unsteady, difficult and diverse childhood, his search for Jewish and Israeli identity, his assimilation of past events and family history, as well as of Israeli present and society and his place in them. His standing within several artistic branches -- painting, literature, music, and photography -- allows him to assemble the special of each, creating a unity of contradictions. The Kafkaesque figure in Jacob Porat's series of Kafka paintings stands opposite the closed gate, waiting for it to open. Made of ornate iron or arched stone at the entry to a house or wall, the gate is concrete, realistic, and traceable to specific buildings in Prague. The Kafkaesque figure is part of the gate, swallowed into it, protruding from it or entangled in its twists. However, it is also the metaphorical gate found inside any person as well as in one's relations with other people and the world. This is a gate, which at the same time blocks the road and a personal gate designated only for the person standing opposite it. The tall and thin Kafkaesque figure is placed in a huge church space, hovering against colorful vitrage, always conflicting with authority: the Father-God. Yet another extension of the figure is positioned in the space inside a fence-cage, like a culprit in court. This is a conflict between Judaism and Christianity, between man and superior forces that turn a deaf ear, between man and the law enforcing authorities. This conflict is open to additional conflicts and interpretations, which the paintings offer their viewers. The paintings are a splendid aesthetic expression of a world of nightmares, of frightful dreams becoming concrete, of the encounter between madness and nightmare and the logical, sane, and clear. They manifest art's exclusive ability to unify conflicts and contradictions, to express lunacy by aesthetic means, and to concurrently depict contradictory situations: terror and beauty, colorful loneliness, styled nightmare, terrestrial hovering, and life growing out of death. This exhibition is yet another brick in the glorious buildings of paintings inspired by literature and juxtaposing these two realms of art. It is an interpretive, principle confrontation between the worlds of literature and painting, and between the worlds of Kafka and Jacob Porat. However, more than anything else, it is a confrontation with the world of the readers-viewers -- their way of deciphering Kafka's works on the background of Prague and their comprehension of Kafka paintings by Jacob Porat. [Prof. Nurit Govrin, Tel Aviv University] Tags: J. Porat Conversatins Kafka Prague Wyszkow Krakow Guethe Institute Minsk Mazowiecki |
Benützer: KLANzagreb |
Dave Mothersole - Live @ Porat Club - Prosika 23/06/07 Dave Mothersole played on season opening - Porat Club in Prosika, Pirovac, Croatia Tags: Dave Mothersole Porat Pirovac Prosika party Dalmacija stereosound bloger |
Benützer: kobi109 |
J. Porat - Conversations with Kafka / The Works Prof. Nurit Govrin: Jacob Porat's Kafka The paintings of Jacob Porat converse with Kafka on the backdrop of Kafka's home city -- Prague - in a multi-layer "correspondence". One layer is Porat's paintings. The second consists of photographed sites in Prague. The third includes pen drawings made by Kafka, and the fourth depicts Kafkaesque situations taken from Kafka's works. And the fifth layer is that of the viewer, who draws near the paintings to look and reveal the worlds hidden inside, one on top of the other, one coming out of the other. The longer one looks at the paintings, the more details are discovered and layers excavated, the complexity of the worlds depicted proliferates and deepens. The viewers bring themselves to the paintings. However, the more versed they are in Porat's artistic world, the more real their familiarity with Prague, and the more they feel at home in Kafka's works, the more responsive they become to the paintings. They can then interpret them by peeling off layer after layer of the open meaning, of a symbol never fully construed. Jacob Porat is distinguished by his search for different, various forms of expression. The exhibitions he has held throughout the years expose the constant and changing elements of his works in all possible aspects: techniques, compositions, and themes. Although evident in his work, his literary education does not make his paintings an illustration of literary writings. Rather, it serves as the driving force of the painting, an enabler of deeper expression and intricacy of the visual statement. Porat's paintings have a life of their own, and these lives have been an integral part of his works since he has begun painting to date. His works in general, and "Conversations with Kafka" in particular, strike a correct balance between the "painting instinct", which is based on intuition and talent and the intellect that is aware of itself and of the literary interpretation of themes. Porat's continuous pursuit is associated with his unsteady, difficult and diverse childhood, his search for Jewish and Israeli identity, his assimilation of past events and family history, as well as of Israeli present and society and his place in them. His standing within several artistic branches -- painting, literature, music, and photography -- allows him to assemble the special of each, creating a unity of contradictions. The Kafkaesque figure in Jacob Porat's series of Kafka paintings stands opposite the closed gate, waiting for it to open. Made of ornate iron or arched stone at the entry to a house or wall, the gate is concrete, realistic, and traceable to specific buildings in Prague. The Kafkaesque figure is part of the gate, swallowed into it, protruding from it or entangled in its twists. However, it is also the metaphorical gate found inside any person as well as in one's relations with other people and the world. This is a gate, which at the same time blocks the road and a personal gate designated only for the person standing opposite it. The tall and thin Kafkaesque figure is placed in a huge church space, hovering against colorful vitrage, always conflicting with authority: the Father-God. Yet another extension of the figure is positioned in the space inside a fence-cage, like a culprit in court. This is a conflict between Judaism and Christianity, between man and superior forces that turn a deaf ear, between man and the law enforcing authorities. This conflict is open to additional conflicts and interpretations, which the paintings offer their viewers. The paintings are a splendid aesthetic expression of a world of nightmares, of frightful dreams becoming concrete, of the encounter between madness and nightmare and the logical, sane, and clear. They manifest art's exclusive ability to unify conflicts and contradictions, to express lunacy by aesthetic means, and to concurrently depict contradictory situations: terror and beauty, colorful loneliness, styled nightmare, terrestrial hovering, and life growing out of death. This exhibition is yet another brick in the glorious buildings of paintings inspired by literature and juxtaposing these two realms of art. It is an interpretive, principle confrontation between the worlds of literature and painting, and between the worlds of Kafka and Jacob Porat. However, more than anything else, it is a confrontation with the world of the readers-viewers -- their way of deciphering Kafka's works on the background of Prague and their comprehension of Kafka paintings by Jacob Porat. [Prof. Nurit Govrin, Tel Aviv University] Tags: J. Porat Kafka Art Literature Convesations Prague |
Benützer: juddal |
Sveti Vid, Porat, Bajčići, Poljica, Glavotok 1938. g. Dokumentarni film Aleksandra Gerasimova iz 1938. godine. Sedmi (posljednji) dio prikazuje Sveti Vid, Porat, Bajčići, Poljica, Milohnići, Brzac, Linardići, Glavotok i prastaru kapelicu Svetog Krševana Tags: sveti vid porat bajčići poljica milohnići brzac linardići glavotok 1938 aleksandar gerasimov curicta curic otok krk |
Benützer: gidizeek |
Live - Quantum & Keren Porat - Brazil 2007 Quantum & Keren Porat - Live in Brazil. Psy4Friends party 2007 Tags: Quantum live keren porat |
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Roni Porat - "Beethoven Blvd. via Abbey Rd." part 1 Roni Porat - Documentary film in 3 parts describing interdisciplinary Composer Conductor & Stage Performer Roni Porat. View Roni with the Israel Philharmonic and The Israel Stage Orchestra in his unique and novel approach to classical music and concert form for kids and adults. www.roniporat.com Tags: conductor performer stage unique orchestra symphony concert documentary kids interdisciplinary philharmonic |
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Conductor Roni Porat presenting The rite of Spring Roni Porat conducting and presentiong the Rite of Spring in a unique way with the Israel Phiharmonic (part 1 of 2) visit www.roniporat.com Tags: music philharmonic conductor performer stravinsky rite spring young people concert |
Benützer: kidsfactory |
This is A Cat ! by Patricia Johnston Arranged by Roni Porat http://myspace.com/kids39factorymusic From the Kids' Factory Music Label, a little swing to wake up the animals... for ESL programs and kids and parents looking for a pleasant and positive way to begin English instruction. Tags: ESL SONGS ENGLISH CHILDREN MUSIC LANGUAGE EDUCATION |
Benützer: trancEdrift |
Quantum & Keren Porat - Krishna Groove Quantum & Keren Porat - Krishna Groove psy trance Tags: Quantum Keren Porat Krishna Groove trance psy-trance psy psytrance |
Benützer: kobi109 |
J. Porat - "An old sight too has a moment of birth" Exhibition at "The Bible Museum", Tel Aviv -Fabruary 2007. Views from the opening-ceremony. Rina Ginossar: An Old Sight Too Has a Moment of Birth (J. Porat's Works in Oil and Mixed Media on Paper and Cardboard, 2000-2005) "An old sight too has a moment of birth", the opening line of Alterman's poem "Moon", appears in one of J. Porat's works from 2003, written in his own hand as one of the elements of the painting, similar to other texts which Porat has embedded in much of his work since the year 2000. Apparently during these years Porat has been engaging in dialogues, on the one hand with culture heroes and artists (especially writers and poets such as Alterman, Yehuda Amichai, Franz Kafka and Fernando Pessoa), while on the other hand, perhaps most importantly, with paintings of his own from earlier years. The written word, given due respect, is placed in an exciting concert of shapes and color. This combination and communication of color, drawing and the written word comprise an integration worthy of attention. It is a concert in which color seems to be frame and background but is truly the soloist that focuses the eye of the viewer. J. Porat is a poet of color. His own works with which Porat engages in dialogue in some of his paintings, are mostly miniature "sights" created many years earlier (in the 1980's), were never exhibited, and here they have a new "birth", thereby realizing Alterman's words quoted above, that "an old sight too has a moment of birth". The structure of most of the works is one of windows, a single window or many windows, playing in beautiful yellow and other tones, while in and between them appears a carnival of figures in color and drawing (sometimes precisely figurative on the border of the realistic and sometimes barely hinted at). Some of the figures are realistic while others are totally phantasmal: people, animals, fauns, monsters, devils, birds, masks and other magical creatures. Here and there among them is a dominant figure which attracts full attention, such as the face of a young woman, black-haired and bare-breasted, or the head of a faun. The "windows" fulfill the function of organizing, connecting, confronting and unifying at one and the same time. They offer the viewer a frame which permits focusing on the entirety and the ephemeral "Kafkaesque" which arouses wonder, stimulation and curiosity. They are Lego bricks which constantly build new castles. All these, as well as the contents of the texts and their contexts, create effects of nonsense, humor and wit, which lead to a productive confrontation with the titles of some of the works, such as "The Human Condition 2003". The works in general have the quality of spirals: on the face of it, a style which repeats itself, but in practice, at familiar crossroads, it rises to a higher level. And then again there is a new variation, surprising and "tongue-in-cheek", according to a familiar dictionary to which new building blocks and combinations are constantly added, a new window opens, a different and new solution appears. With the help of these basic steps the rhythm constantly changes: runs, walks, skips, and creates a wonderful dialogue, leaving the viewer eager for more. Tags: Jacob Porat Bible Museum Tel Aviv Alterman Old-Sight |
Benützer: roni58 |
Roni Porat - "Beethoven Blvd. via Abbey Rd." part 3 Roni Porat - Documentary film in 3 parts describing interdisciplinary Composer Conductor & Stage Performer Roni Porat. View Roni with the Israel Philharmonic and The Israel Stage Orchestra in his unique and novel approach to classical music and concert form for kids and adults. www.roniporat.com Tags: conductor performer stage unique orchestra symphony concert documentary kids interdisciplinary philharmonic |
Benützer: KLANzagreb |
Arnaud Rebotini @ Porat Club - Prosika, Pirovac - 21.06.2008 Renaut Arbotini @ Porat club season opening 2008 ...21.06.2008. - stereosound.bloger.hr - www.poratclub.com Tags: stereosound bloger arnaud rebotini black strobe porat club pirovac prosika techno house electro rave party croatia |
Benützer: roni58 |
Conductor Roni Porat presenting The rite of Spring (2) Roni Porat conducting and presenting Stravinsky - the Rite of Spring in a unique way for young people. The Israel Philharmonic. (part 2 of 2) visit www.roniporat.com Tags: music philharmonic conductor performer stravinsky rite spring young people concert |
Benützer: sipotat |
Lior Porat -40 Lior Porat 40 Tags: lior porat 40 |
Benützer: amitporat |
amit porat - t-rex 600 nitro super pro amit porat is flying the t-rex 600 super pro. Tags: amit porat t-rex 600 israel r/c school |
Benützer: GRUPAPORAT |
Grupa Porat - Ruza Hrvatska Croatian Center NY 6/10/2007 Tags: Grupa Porat Ruza Hrvatska Ustasa Croatia Croatian Music Center Prlajvo Kazaliste |
Benützer: GRUPAPORAT |
Grupa Porat - Cesarica Croatian Center NYC 6/10/2007 Tags: Grupa Porat Cesarica Croatian Center Music Oliver Dragojevic |
Benützer: yoqva |
bar mizva ben-porat part 1 bar mizva Tags: bar mizva |
Benützer: homemadeelectronica |
Porat club - Promo video 2007 Porat club - Promo video 2007 Tags: Porat Pirovac Tribunj Vodice Biograd Clubbing Techno House Croatia |
Benützer: TheVirtualScout |
Rotem Porat Women College Basketball Prospect Tags: Women College Basketball Prospect |
Benützer: F3RA78 |
Pytzek @ porat club 28.07.2008 Pytzek @ porat club 28.07.2008 oko 6h jutro poratu Tags: pytzek house porat club pirovac 2008 |
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