JaZzArt en València

Cuando te persiga un toro, lo que tienes que hacer es correr… Gora San Fermín

No one on Earth can change the course of history.

No one should doubt, there’s absolutes and laws,

and right and wrong and Ten Commandments, written deep upon the stone.

There is the purest white and purest darkness,

we’re free to choose between what’s right and wrong,

travelling through our thoughts, strong winds and lightning,

travelling through our ears an old, old song.

I stood one day in Central Park,

snow covered the ground,

I thought of summer…

C.2021, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 20 NOV 2021, València, Spain 🇪🇸

Bodo en Nueva York (2008)… exponiendo cuadros en SoHo, Brooklyn y Mid-Town Manhattan…

Y si, a veces dicen que soy anti social, quiza a veces, pero siempre anti-comunista y anti fascista, que al fin y al cabo son las dos caras de una misma moneda…

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Bodo in New York (2008)… Exhibiting art in SoHo, Brooklyn and Mid-Town…

and yes, some may say that I am at times anti-social, but always anti-communist and anti-fascist (after all they are the two sides of the same coin).

Long Live Freedom – Viva la libertad

GRACIAS – CHEERS

Bien…

El primero es de la serie JaZzArt en València, Fase II, etapa rosa, número uno,(La serie completa en Instagram: @Francisco_Bravo_Cabrera). Mide 25x35cm y la técnica, grafito (lapices) y tinta sobre una base abstracta de acuarela. La bailarina ocupa el centro de la composición y sus músicos ocupan el lateral izquierdo, mientras que la simbología ocupa el derecho, siendo esta un búho…

La danza es algo mágico-sensual, el arte que siempre nos ha fascinado. ¿Acaso Salomé no bailó con tal sensualidad que embrujó a Herodes con los movimientos de su cuerpo y esto terminó causándole la muerte a Juan el Bautista? ¿Hace falta decir más?

Okay…

The first one is from the series JaZzArt en València, Phase II, Rose Period, Number One. Measures 25x35cm and I painted it with graphite and ink over an abstract background done with watercolours. The dancer occupies the central part of the composition. She has to the right the musicians and to the left symbology in the form of an owl…

The dance is magic-sensuality and is the art form that has always fascinated mankind. Didn’t Salomé dance so sensuously that she bewitched Herod with her movements and this ended up causing the death of John the Baptist? Need I say more?

El segundo…«Terminando la pirueta»…lo he pintado con pintura acrílica sobre tela cien por ciento algodón. Mide 30x60cm y va ser el primero de un triptico que aún está por pintar. El tema es, igual que el anterior, la danza, la sensualidad del movimiento rítmico, fluido, coreografiado o improvisado, pero destinado a ser placentero y bello. ¿Acaso no dicen que los bailarines son «sex-symbols»?

Bailar, con o sin pareja, es un acto social y también uno artístico. Bailamos en nuestras casas cuando nos sentimos felices y queremos celebrar, solo o acompañados. Lo hacemos también en las fechas importantes de nuestra vida, como el día en que nos casamos, en las fiestas de noche buena y por supuesto en la noche vieja ya que dicen que si comenzamos el año bailando bailaremos el año entero. ¡Venga!

The second one is titled «Terminando la pirueta» («Finishing the Pirouette»). It is acrylic on canvas and measures 30x60cm. This is the first of a triptych that I have yet to paint. It’s theme, again, is the dance, the sensuality of motion, of rhythm, fluid movements, choreographed or improvised, but destined to give pleasure and be beautiful. Or don’t they say dancers are «sex-symbols»?

To dance, with or without a partner is a social act and an artistic one. We dance at home when we are happy and we want to celebrate, with others or alone. We also dance at those important times in our lives, like the day of our wedding, on Christmas parties and of course on New Year’s Eve! They say that if one starts the year dancing one will be dancing the whole year! Smashing good!

El tercero…y último…es un cuadro que he titulado «Fiesta». La técnica, acrílico sobre tela y mide 50x60cm. Se imponen, sobre un fondo abstracto dominado por los colores rosas y amarillos, cinco siluetas, tres bailando, una haciendo unos movimientos gimnásticos y uno tocando un tambor. Se palpa el movimiento en la composición, se sienten los golpes en el cuero del tambor, se respira la alegría de los bailarines y de todos…

Concluyendo, digo que bailar es una reacción humana que surge cuando estamos felices, cachondos o cuando queremos alabar al Dios que nos creó. Los bailarines somos nosotros, la música nos motiva y nos hace movernos al ritmo de un tambor o de una pandereta, pero la música que mas nos ha de hacer bailar está dentro de nuestros oídos y nadie más la puede escuchar…

The third, and last one, is titled «Fiesta» («Party»). It is done with acrylics on canvas and measures 50x60cm. The composition is made with an abstract background, mostly in rose and yellows wherein five silhouettes abide. Three of them are dancing, while one is doing some gymnastic-type movement and one is playing a drum. One can feel the movement, one can hear the pounding on the drum and one can sense the joy of the dancers and all…

In conclusion I will say that dancing is a human reaction that surges within us when we are filled with happiness, when we feel sexy or when we want to praise the God of our creation. We are the dancers and music motivates us and makes us move either to the rhythm of a drum or a tambourine. But the music that really makes us dance is the one that only we can hear and no one else can…

(Imagenes, de los cuadros pintados por Francisco Bravo Cabrera, son propiedad de Francisco Bravo Cabrera y no pueden ser reproducidas sin permiso escrito. Derechos Reservados. C.2021, All Rights Reserved)

(Images of the paintings done by Francisco Bravo Cabrera are the property of Francisco Bravo Cabrera and cannot be reproduced without written permission. C.2021, All Rights Reserved)

Well, I reckon we all thought of these things at one time or another… But, thankfully, we grew up… The song was with my band AJA back in 2014, while some of the images are from my trip to Cuba in 2015…

CHEERS

Digital Art is not something new, but it has evolved in many ways…

I think of creating art as the search, so searching can lead you to many places and to do many things, such as using digital formats to experiment with, learn and express…

Cheers…

And I am talking about the Neapolitan artist from the XVIIth Century, Aniella di Beltrano, also known as Diana de Rosa… And very little is known about her. But one thing is known and it is that many of her paintings were attributed to other artists, especially to her main teacher and mentor, Massimo Stanzione… Aniella (Diana) was born in 1613 and died in 1649 from a stabbing committed by her husband in a fit of jealousy.

However, this (see below) rediscovered painting sold at Sotheby’s for a whopping 128.000€ ($134.836)!

This sale set a new auction record for paintings by early Italian professional women painters.

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The featured image above is my rendering of what Aniella may have looked like as I could not find any portraits or self-portraits of the artist. So I imagined her as a young woman of the 17th Century in my style, surreal-expressionism.

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CHEERS

Como dijo Gardel: “Contra el destino nadie batalla…“

El Euro-Ku es mi forma de honrar el Haiku tradicional, ya que no soy japonés…

GRACIAS

Digital Art is not something new, but it has evolved in many ways…

I think of creating art as the search, so searching can lead you to many places and to do many things, such as using digital formats to experiment with, learn and express…

Cheers…