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#art, The Amazing David Hockney!

Rest in peace David Hockney who died on 11 JUN 2026 at the age of 88. A great painter and photographer who also wrote many books and will long be remembered.

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#art, #music, Francisco Bravo Cabrera’s Fine Art Prints 2025…

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Modernism is anything modern, right? Maybe…

But this art vanguard of the XX C. carries everything and anything you can imagine. Anyone that is called contemporary or who is an artist that considers himself contemporary, or anything never done before (which is practically impossible as all has been done) and is laid out as «art» is part of this vast, never-ending movement. Why is it never-ending? Because we are always moving toward the modern. For something to be contemporary it has to exist in the here and now but in a few years it will be ancient…

One of the movements, or styles or genres that developed with the idea of modernism is «conceptual art». I don’t really have much to say about it except that the «Queen» is Yoko Ono and the «Grandmother» is Marina Abramović.

Let me know what you think of «modernism» and I really want to know what you think, is Yayoi Kusama really Yoko Ono? Hmm…

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Adding nothing to the narrative or to the conversation about art is what they are doing when they bring up the «fact» that a painting by Piet Mondrian was hung, supposedly «upside down» in a German museum. And I say that this narrative/conversation means nothing because abstract art does not necessarily have to be hung «right side up» for it to be valid or for it to make sense. And in any event, to not risk damaging the painting, it will remain «upside down».

Abstract art removes itself from the metaphor of life, therefore it does not require the same rules as figurative art, which is making a realistic statement of life. Therefore, it makes no difference which way it is hung. Think of Jackson Pollock, he painted on the floor without caring, one way or another, where the top is and where the bottom is. Many times I have hung my abstract paintings in different ways just to bring out a different feel or emotion. Changing the perspective does not detract anything from the value of abstract art.

«New York City I 1941» was exhibited for the first time at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in Manhattan in 1945. Since 1980 it hangs in the art collection of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf. Susanne Meyer-Büser, curator for a new Mondrian exhibition, investigated and discovered the error. Her research led her to a photograph of Mondrian’s studio that was taken before his death and which was published in Town and Country magazine in June 1944. The photo shows the painting on the easel the right way. The painting is not signed and has no indication as to where the top is. Mondrian died without finishing this piece.

I wonder, if this is all a way to generate propaganda for the exhibition.

I invite you to delve deeper into abstract art… This video features, among others, work by Piet Mondrian.

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España 2 – Bélgica 1

Jazz is America’s Classical Music, as it rightfully should be called… And I love the idea that is why I adopted it…from the very beginnings…to my work here at OCS València.

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El Jazz es la música clásica estadounidense, y así se le debe denominar… I a mi me encanta la idea por eso la incorporé a mi trabajo desde que commence en OCS València…

Gracias…

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