JaZzArt en València

Here are some of my cats throughout the years… And these works are available as fine quality prints through Fine Art America which is the only company I use to create fine art prints (of many styles) of my artwork.

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This is an incredible place right on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean… If you have not visited this phenomenal city, you might just consider a little trip. Yes, it is out of the way, but worth the ride…

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Welcome to part 10 of «Art History in One Minute (videos)» and on this one we are referring to an artist who, no one said was a genius, so he told everybody that he was… Salvador Dalí, the man who said that he was surrealism, is a great artist to many, not so much to me. Personally, I have read some of his books and I think he was a better writer…

Now I want to know what you think. Genius or bufoon?

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The only place you can find fine art prints (of various styles) is at Fine Art America. Check out my new gallery. This is one of my new images, which you can order as a framed print, canvas print, wood print, metal print or fine art print…

A fine art print is a very affordable way to own an original work of art. Support your local artists always…

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My work, converted into phenomenal fine art prints are only available through Fine Art America, check out my gallery here.

And here it is…

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Y como todos los años, gracias a Dios, ha llegado el momento de desconectar (un poco) y navegar las aguas del Mare Nostrum… Seguiremos brindándoos nuevos posts pero también vamos a reciclar muchos que quizá no conozcáis. Así nos preparamos para la próxima temporada que comienza en noviembre, despues de nuestra exposición (La búsqueda) de octubre en València. Os deseamos a todos un feliz verano 2025…

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And as every year, and God willing, the time has come to disconnect (a little) and navigate the waters of the Mare Nostrum… We will continue to provide you with new posts but we will also recycle many that you may not know. This is how we prepare for the upcoming season that begins in November, after our exhibition (The search) in October in Valencia. We wish you all a happy summer 2025…

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One of the great from the art vanguards of the 20th Century…

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Welcome to JaZzArt en València. This blog will post daily articles on art (especially the paintings I make), on artists, music…and musicians…and the poetry that I write. I will also post here many of the videos that I make for YouTube that comprise my Art History series.

What is «Jazz-Art»? It is the approach to painting that I have been developing for more than twenty years. I believe that painting is the art of the search, and the search is eternal. A painting begins in the head then begins to travel down the arms to the fingers that hold the brush and apply colours, lines and ideas on a surface. After the thought of the painting comes the actual work of putting it on a canvas, or other surface. To do this I allow room for much improvisation…as would a jazz musician after studying the charts of the song…and in so doing I let the painting…sort of…paint itself, of course with rhythm, which is as essential to jazz as is improvisation.

All of this is contrived, well thought out, well researched and investigated. Art is not intuitive. A painter need not be original. I believe, as many artists throughout art history have stated, that we are all copyists and the original ones copied from nature. I do not consider myself an «artist», I am a painter, a searcher, and a lover of faith and nature.

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El dibujo es una manera de hacer un cuadro con menos elementos, o sea, sin colores… Pero es que el blanco y negro sobran y bastan para decir tantas cosas. Yo no me canso de dibujar. Hubo un tiempo cuando dibujaba diez horas al día, todos los días y por varios años y la colección ahora esta esparcida por toda Europa y otras partes del mundo… Estos dibujos son de mi época en Miami, diría yo que los hice entre el 2015 y 2017…

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Drawing is a way to create a picture with fewer elements, that is to say, without colours. But blacks and whites are more than enough to convey so much. I never get tired of drawing. There was a time when I drew ten hours a day, every day for several years, and now the collection is scattered throughout Europe and other parts of the world… These drawings are from my time in Miami; I would say I made them between 2015 and 2017…

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Like the song says, «Those were the days my friend…» and they really never end you know, you just pass from one place to another and the days continue. It’s all how you make your days and it starts with your imagination, visualisation and positive outlook. I started out in Miami, Florida in the middle 1990’s and in 2003 I created Omnia Caelum Studios and of course it became Omnia Caelum Studios Miami. These paintings were exhibited and sold back during my first professional gallery show in Istanbul, Türkiye…

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