JaZzArt en València

Well, I was going to write about it but really, the video says it all, take a look and a listen and let me know what you think of «contemporary expressionism» and of art (modern or classical) in general. Art is a contrived form of expression and never intuitive.

I don’t usually wake up thinking about art, but on a foggy July morning, watching the sun rise amidst the absurdity of the meteorological conditions, my thoughts went immediately into creating a record of such a daybreak. So, all morning I have been thinking about art, and especially about the new painting I am working on. I still have not put a single drop of paint on the canvas, but I have been «painting» it for about a week. Of course it is all in my head, as well as some ideas in a sketchbook. But yesterday I finally decided upon the composition. Funny thing, I decided to ignore all the previous sketches and create a brand new one of a thought that suddenly came to my head. So, now I know what the new painting is going to be.

For me that is the «process» of art. It involves trial and error, improvisation, allowing the subject to take centre stage and do it’s solo, and of course I must take into good consideration the rhythm of the entire work. That is the process of «JaZzArT» to create a surreal-expressionist work out of a bunch of ideas. Now I am thinking about the colours it will have. Colours are very important for my surreal-expressionist art as there is a lot of abstract within these figurative compositions. Colour creates the mood, the intention, the message and also attracts attention, and that is very important.

For me the process of art does not include inspiration, or muses, or intuition or the thought that I «am» or «have» talent. My talent is developed with every painting I create as I work, diligently and hard to make it «work». Talent is not a possession, nor is it something you are born with. Talent is developed through hard work, repetition, trial and error and with the desire to create. If people were born talented, they would have a genetic condition, and then be pre-disposed to create but what they create would not be art. Art has to be the result of effort, of enthusiasm and of discipline, and of course, the unquenchable thirst of the artist that guides him to the waters of creativity, which is art.

I am an academic artist. I graduated from Fine Arts at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. Since those days I have grown as an artist because I always considered that art was the search. So I searched and am still searching. I am also finding, I am also learning. I have sought out knowledge from any source, be it a book, a video, another artist, but always from somewhere or someone. There is no such thing as a «self-taught» artist (or anything). No one can teach themselves what they do not know. The knowledge comes from somewhere.

And at this point in my life and career, and after what I am seeing that goes on in art schools at unis almost everywhere, I no longer advocate a Fine Arts degree in Art. I would instead suggest an art academy where you can register and define your course of studies. If you are interested in abstract art you need not waste your time learning figurative (although you should have a good introduction to it), just like if you wish to pursue sculpting, why waste time doing watercolour landscapes.

But the worst thing that I see in the Faculties of Fine Arts is the way the professors want to guide their students to the art forms they like. The worst one is conceptual art and performance art. It seems like there is an overabundance of performance artists as well as conceptual artists. Fine, for whoever likes that, I’ve no beef with them nor with their style. But I think that if you are training to be an artist, an artist that draws, paints, models and sculpts, then you should not be influenced to veer your course of studies towards conceptual or performance art. And that is not the job of the professor. I never wanted a professor to guide my head or thoughts, all I wanted was for them to teach me the basics of art and of the art world (business), which they rarely touch upon.

CHEERS

At 88 years of age and still going strong and according to him, he feels like he is 30 when he is in the studio painting… This is one of the artists I like. His work is extremely popular and selling for millions and millions at auction…

David Hockney’s landscapes and Pop Art (sort of) became quite popular during the 1960’s… He has received numerous awards throughout the years, including Knighthood in 1990… He has never been afraid of expressing himself, of his love-life, and never being «in the closet», and also his love of smoking… Hockney has also written several books throughout his career, namely «The Way I See It«…

«Nicholas Canyon» sold at auction for a little over USD 41 million… Then his «Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)» (1972), was auctioned at Christie’s (2018) for a record-breaking USD 90.3 million. At the time he became the world’s most expensive living artist….

David Hockney was born in Bradford, England in 1937. He studied at the Royan College of Art (RCA). He lives partly in California where he has studios in the Hollywood Hills, and in Malibu, as well as an office on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. He has two residences in California as well as one in London and one in Bridlington, England.

CHEERS

Racism is the most anti-human and backward behaviour imaginable… Long live people! There are no races only the Human Race!

¿Donde va el arte de estos días?

Bueno, sinceramente no me importa ni me interesa. Somos artesanos. Hacemos lo que tenemos que hacer para “hacer” arte, pero terminamos reproduciendo y rehaciendo lo que ya se hizo. Y eso no importa porque el arte no tiene que ser original.

Hoy en día están tratando de destruir el arte de los artistas comparándola con “arte”, o cosas, hechas por robots, ordenadores y animales.

Hoy en día se eleva el arte conceptual a niveles que no se merece.

Hoy en día están virando todo al revés pero la vida se vive al derecho.

GRACIAS

It is said that Dalí and Gala once found a little bunny rabbit and they kept it as a pet. But since they usually, come November, left to spend the winters in the United States, they did not know what to do with their furry little pet. So, Gala called their cook and said to him, «tomorrow we have stuffed rabbit». The poor cook had to comply and with sadness in his heart and tears in his eyes, he cooked the rabbit. His tears rolled down his cheeks as he served Dalí and Gala the meat of what had been their beloved little pet.

And, to be able to create (see below) «Dalí Atomicus«. This 1948 photograph by Phillipe Halsman required 26 attempts, where they threw three cats and water into the air. How little regard for these poor animals they both showed.

A final anecdote is that Dalí often organised bullfights, and in one of them, he took and filled a dummy bull with live cats and bags filled with fish into the round and with some pyrotechnic devise blew it up so that the live animals inside would fly through the air landing on the spectators. Of course all of this was «surrealistic» and created by the self-named «genius» of modern art.

So, if you want to know why I have such a strong distaste for this non-genius, well here are some of them…

See also: Art History in One Minute (videos): Dalí

CHEERS

I don’t usually wake up thinking about art, but on a foggy July morning, watching the sun rise amidst the absurdity of the meteorological conditions, my thoughts went immediately into creating a record of such a daybreak. So, all morning I have been thinking about art, and especially about the new painting I am working on. I still have not put a single drop of paint on the canvas, but I have been «painting» it for about a week. Of course it is all in my head, as well as some ideas in a sketchbook. But yesterday I finally decided upon the composition. Funny thing, I decided to ignore all the previous sketches and create a brand new one of a thought that suddenly came to my head. So, now I know what the new painting is going to be.

For me that is the «process» of art. It involves trial and error, improvisation, allowing the subject to take centre stage and do it’s solo, and of course I must take into good consideration the rhythm of the entire work. That is the process of «JaZzArT» to create a surreal-expressionist work out of a bunch of ideas. Now I am thinking about the colours it will have. Colours are very important for my surreal-expressionist art as there is a lot of abstract within these figurative compositions. Colour creates the mood, the intention, the message and also attracts attention, and that is very important.

For me the process of art does not include inspiration, or muses, or intuition or the thought that I «am» or «have» talent. My talent is developed with every painting I create as I work, diligently and hard to make it «work». Talent is not a possession, nor is it something you are born with. Talent is developed through hard work, repetition, trial and error and with the desire to create. If people were born talented, they would have a genetic condition, and then be pre-disposed to create but what they create would not be art. Art has to be the result of effort, of enthusiasm and of discipline, and of course, the unquenchable thirst of the artist that guides him to the waters of creativity, which is art.

I am an academic artist. I graduated from Fine Arts at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. Since those days I have grown as an artist because I always considered that art was the search. So I searched and am still searching. I am also finding, I am also learning. I have sought out knowledge from any source, be it a book, a video, another artist, but always from somewhere or someone. There is no such thing as a «self-taught» artist (or anything). No one can teach themselves what they do not know. The knowledge comes from somewhere.

And at this point in my life and career, and after what I am seeing that goes on in art schools at unis almost everywhere, I no longer advocate a Fine Arts degree in Art. I would instead suggest an art academy where you can register and define your course of studies. If you are interested in abstract art you need not waste your time learning figurative (although you should have a good introduction to it), just like if you wish to pursue sculpting, why waste time doing watercolour landscapes.

But the worst thing that I see in the Faculties of Fine Arts is the way the professors want to guide their students to the art forms they like. The worst one is conceptual art and performance art. It seems like there is an overabundance of performance artists as well as conceptual artists. Fine, for whoever likes that, I’ve no beef with them nor with their style. But I think that if you are training to be an artist, an artist that draws, paints, models and sculpts, then you should not be influenced to veer your course of studies towards conceptual or performance art. And that is not the job of the professor. I never wanted a professor to guide my head or thoughts, all I wanted was for them to teach me the basics of art and of the art world (business), which they rarely touch upon.

CHEERS

De acuerdo completamente con Mark Twain, uno de mis escritores preferidos. ¿Y tú?

I only ask God to create in me a pure heart and to renew my body and soul with His Spirit.

Well, I was going to write about it but really, the video says it all, take a look and a listen and let me know what you think of «contemporary expressionism» and of art (modern or classical) in general. Art is a contrived form of expression and never intuitive.