Ya ha llegado el verano – Summer is Here

(«Sunrise No. 111″/Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)

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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GRACIAS – CHEERS

Bon dia

Confía en todos pero espera lo inesperado…

#art, New Fine Art Prints by Francisco Bravo Cabrera…

(Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Also Known as Bodo Vespaciano/Actor Portrayal/All Rights Reserved)

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…

(«Fish Fun and Clouds»/All Rights Reserved)

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

CHEERS

#poem, «A Path Reality Has Never Dreamt About»

(Image by and property of Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)

A PATH REALITY HAS NEVER DREAMT ABOUT

Your steps will know the way to reach the mountain,
your guiding light will be the moon,
she leads you softly, in spite of all your fears,
and patiently will guide you through the fog.

And as you walk a path unknown…

A whisper flows uneven through the foggy, mountain air,
you perceive it as dry lightning.
but the thunder echoes everywhere,
especially in your heart
now pounding loudly.

Your heart will understand tomorrow…

And tomorrow has never shown her face ‘round here
It’s the illusion you’ve been taught to venerate.
One day you’ll realise it’s only smoke
that forms the horrors you most fear
So keep on searching through the night.

There has never been a dream about reality…

Oh reality!
The only power that can challenge sanity,
and erase illusions
like you and me…

But you are on a path reality has never dreamt about…

C.2025 – Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 27 JUN 2025 – Valencia, España

#art, The Colours of VALENCIARTIST!

(Bodo V/Also known as Francisco Bravo Cabrera/actor portrayal/All Rights Reserved)

Here at VALENCIARTIST and at Omnia Caelum Studios València, we are warm, Mediterranean people and we love colour almost as much as we love our wine, our tortilla de patatas and our jamón ibérico…

Cheers!

#art, Art History in One Minute (videos), part 11: Francis Bacon

(Image source: Diario Sur/Bacon, in his studio in disarray in Reece Mews, his sacred space/e. c.)

Got to say that Francis Bacon is one of the greatest painters I have ever admired…

Hope you like this page…

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CHEERS

#art, The Colours of VALENCIARTIST!

(Bodo V/Also known as Francisco Bravo Cabrera/actor portrayal/All Rights Reserved)

Here at VALENCIARTIST and at Omnia Caelum Studios València, we are warm, Mediterranean people and we love colour almost as much as we love our wine, our tortilla de patatas and our jamón ibérico…

Cheers!

#poem, «The Denial»

(Image by Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)

I felt the rhythm of their marching feet
as they pounded the asphalt of my sunny street,
I heard their cadence, strong men singing
and I learned the words
and I joined them singing…

With my black beret and my M-16
like Ché Guevara through jungles deep
where serpents hang from every tree,
I have walked alone
as the silent one…

The silent one that never thinks
that never cries
that never blinks,
that truth so precious will deny,
regretting nothing
not even sighs
that lovingly added to words no one said
‘cause those words had been better saved
for the dead…

And I say now to you who knows something about me,
if you choose to disclose it you know I’ll deny it,
the rumours, the gossip, the stories of war,
I’ll deny every single one for this I abhor,

And though you know they are true
and you know those things happened
but I’ll deny them again
and again, and again!
I remind you,
I feel no regret
and those things I’ll forget
and I’ll deny first of all
that I’ve been lost without you.

C.2025 – Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 27 JUN 2025 – Valencia, España

#poem, «A Path Reality Has Never Dreamt About»

(Image by and property of Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)

A PATH REALITY HAS NEVER DREAMT ABOUT

Your steps will know the way to reach the mountain,
your guiding light will be the moon,
she leads you softly, in spite of all your fears,
and patiently will guide you through the fog.

And as you walk a path unknown…

A whisper flows uneven through the foggy, mountain air,
you perceive it as dry lightning.
but the thunder echoes everywhere,
especially in your heart
now pounding loudly.

Your heart will understand tomorrow…

And tomorrow has never shown her face ‘round here
It’s the illusion you’ve been taught to venerate.
One day you’ll realise it’s only smoke
that forms the horrors you most fear
So keep on searching through the night.

There has never been a dream about reality…

Oh reality!
The only power that can challenge sanity,
and erase illusions
like you and me…

But you are on a path reality has never dreamt about…

C.2025 – Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 27 JUN 2025 – Valencia, España