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Got to say that this was one of my faves during my very young years. Loved their songs, memorised them, sang them and looked forward to their next hit. The Foundations were actually only active from 1967 to 1970, but they had lots of good songs and their songs were cool as hell… «Baby Now That I’ve Found You» reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and in Canada. The song was written by Tony Macaulay and John MacLeod. Their other big hit was «Build Me Up Buttercup«, which reached number 2 on the UK lists and number 3 in the US. It was written by Macaulay and Mike d’Abo (vocalist for Manfred Mann). Interestingly, The Foundations was the first multirracial pop group with a number one song during the 1960’s… It could be said that they were Britain’s «Motown» sound group. They recorded only three albums but I still love their songs. Had to include them.

What do you think?

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Y es uno de los sentidos menos comunes… la estupidez le gana siempre…

Una obra de esta artista llegó a ser la obra más cara de la historia en 2018. Fue «Propped» (de 1992) y se vendió (en subasta) por 10 millones de euros. Pero no importa, es una mujer y los hombres ganan más pues en la lista de los que mas valen están solo hombres. Algunos de estos son Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst y Banksy, artistas de los cuales no quiero ni acordarme porque uno es un empresario, el otro es un artista con poca imaginación y gusto y el tercero es un «activista» contra sistema que vive muy bien gracias al sistema. La obra de Jenny Saville si la considero arte, buena y verdadera, además de única, original, y muy bien hecha. Saville es una artista consagrada y muy bien preparada. No es una grafitera ni una a la que se le hubiera ocurrido meter un tiburón en un tanque de formol, ni tampoco hace un conejito de acero inoxidable (o de que se yo…), como el de los payasos en los cumpleaños de los críos.

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This artist had the highest selling work by a woman artist in 2018 when her 1992 painting «Propped» sold at auction for 10 million euros. But it did not matter, male artists sell much higher and she was obscured by artists the likes of Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Banksy. These are «artists» which I prefer not to even think about. One is more of a business man than anything else, the other has very little imagination and taste and the third one is an «activist» against the «establishment» which has made him very, very rich. Jenny Saville is a real artist, trained and hard working. She is unique, original and well committed to her art. She is no graffiti activist or one who puts a shark in a tank of formaldehyde or one whose workers have created a bunny made of stainless steel (or whatever).

Jenny Saville nació en Cambridge, Reino Unido en 1970 y forma parte de los Young British Artists.

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Jenny Saville was born in Cambridge, United Kingdon in 1970. She is a member of the Young British Artists.

Es una artista que hay que conocer porque es joven, todavía esta trabajando y lográndose un lugar en la historia del arte.

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This is an artist we must all come to know. She is young and working and achieving for herself a place in Art History.

OMNIA CAELUM STUDIOS VALENCIA PRESENTA LA SERIE DE MUJERES ARTISTAS/ OMNIA CAELUM STUDIOS VALENCIA PRESENTS WOMEN ARTISTS SERIES

Aquí os dejo un corto vídeo de dos de mis artistas favoritas, Dorothea Tanning y Louise Bourgeois…

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Here I leave you with a short video about two of my favourite artists: Dorothea Tanning and Louise Bourgeois…

Gracias…

Cheers…

He hablado de lo importante que son los colores en mi obra, ahora os voy a decir porque…

Primero porque los colores ayudan a contar la historia y creedme, todos los cuadros cuentan una, de una forma figurativa o abstracta. Los colores le añaden algo que busca la reacción psicológica en el observador, hacen que se fije en ciertos aspectos de la composición más que en otras, cementan el tono y la atmosfera donde «vive» el cuadro, y marca los cambios en la dinámica de la composición.

Asi se definen los colores:

Monocromáticos: Un solo color con sus sutilezas y sus tonos. Una obra monocromática suele servir bien cuando uno quiere unir bien los elementos de la composición.

Colores complementarios: Estos son los colores que están situados opuestos unos a otros en la rueda de colores. E. G. el rijo y el verde. Se usan para crear unidad y dinámica en la composición.

Análogos: Los colores que se posicionan cercanos o a lado uno de otro en la rueda de colores. Estos ayudan a crear una composición no muy sincronizada y quizá hasta poco armoniosa o una distopía.

Tríadicos: Este es el uso de tres colores que se encuentran en espacios separados en la rueda de colores. Por ejemplo el rojo, amarillo y azul. Usando triadas se logra un aspecto cambiante que puede elevarse hasta el estado del caos.

QUE SIGNIFICAN LOS COLORES

Rojo: Pasión, peligro, poder

Rosa: Inocencia, belleza, ligereza

Naranja: Calor, juventud, sociedad

Amarillo: Locura, inseguridad, obsesión

Verde: La naturaleza, corrupción, tonos siniestros

Azul: Aislamiento, melancolía, calma

Morado: La fantasia, el misticismo, temas etéreos.

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Hay que tener en cuenta que los colores son mucho mas que aspectos decorativos. Los colores narran, cuentan, guían y llegan hasta lo más profundo del alma.

GRACIAS

MUY AGRADECIDO

Los dibujos son pinturas con menos elementos, o sea, menos colores, aunque, como veis, algunos si tienen color. Para mi el dibujo es elemental, fenomenal y una autentica pasada. Aquí veréis algunos…

Time… a concept, a reality, a measure of life’s activities, a measure as well of one’s «things to do», is something we all know about too well, no? No. I do not think so. Time, as we know it is a concept that goes forward. But forward into what? Directions, when applied to time, to destiny, to the universe, to life itself, are just ideas in our heads. There is no such thing as a direction when it comes to any of those ideas, or things. You might take the eastern route, or the southern road to get to specific places, but you are not a concept…

Time and space are a strange mix. They, the «experts» fill our heads with «facts» like the «unity of space and time», a phrase coined by Einstein’s teacher Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909) who wrote: «Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a union of the two will preserve an independent reality.» So we believe it and the thought, the idea of an expert becomes the «truth».

If time were linear and space was infinite then why is there a speed limit in the universe. The fastest thing in the universe is light which travels at the «speed of light», 299,792,458 metres per second. But if space is infinite and time travels continually forward, why is there such a limit. And there is another limit that you may not know about and that is the smallest particle in the universe. The quark is the smallest particle and it cannot be divided into anything smaller. But why? Why cannot division go forward, as does time, ad infinitum?

The answer is because time does not travel forward or backwards. Space is not limitless and the universe does not function in accordance to the «laws» created by «experts». The universe was created by God (a Superior being whether some deny it). Earth was placed within the creation.

Knowledge has been spread all throughout earth as the earth is a conscient being as you and I are. But there is the knowledge of God and the knowledge of the Adversary who controls those who wish to deny, defy and discredited the true creator. They…science, philosophy, gossip…have formulated convoluted and strange theories to explain what is simply God’s creation and will. We, on the other hand, according to them, and they do govern the «official story», are superstitious fools and conspiracy theorists. Well, if we had made up the theories and «laws» they invented they would say we are totally and irrevocably insane. But yet, they do have many followers who believe they are rational, sane and even holy people.

To each his own, we all are governed by our «free will». We value highly freedom of expression, and that is quite logical. But what about freedom of thought? What about knowledge and understanding before acceptance of a supposed law? What is freedom of expression good for if all we hear are moronic statements and the babbling of idiots?

God gives us time in the same manner as He gives us sunshine…useful light…and rain to all His creations. Good or bad they may be but it is the same to God. The earth runs in complete perfection because it is a creation of a perfect mind. Now those of the «official story» are trying to pull a new one, that we are in a simulation. That the world is governed by a phenomenally huge and powerful programme coded by «someone». To what extremes they will go to not have to say that God is in charge and god runs the «programme» if you will.

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I must confess not knowing hardly anything about this painter from the United States. Gertrude was born in 1909 in Austin, Texas. One thing I discovered fascinating about her was her love for jazz. She was based in Chicago and there she kept up with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Sarah Vaughn. She said their music inspired her work. That seems phenomenal to me.

She came from an artistic family, as both parents were opera singers. They were from Berlin. Gertrude studied art briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago. As of 1932 she focused solely on her career as an artist.

Among the interesting anecdotes in her «bohemian» life was that she was the inspiration for Richie Powel’s song «Gertrude’s Bounce». Interesting to note is that she played piano and was very good at jazz improvising and at times played with Dizzie Gillespie at private events.

Gertrude Abercrombie died in 1977, the same year that a major retrospective of her work was exhibited at Hyde Park Art Center (the oldest exhibition space in Chicago).

I think you will enjoy her work…

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When I first heard «The House of the Rising Sun» I thought it was the coolest song in the world, and I was a wee lad then. And I remember that all the kids loved it, and since we were in a Catholic, parochial, school we were not supposed to be mentioning songs like that one. After all the song was about a whore-house… But the song was powerful and fitting for a band that called themselves «Animals».

Ok, so these guys, The Animals, hailed from Newcastle and did not really get any notoriety until 1964, even though they did form in 1962. They did become famous with «The House of the Rising Sun«, curiously enough a sort of folk song from the United States whose author is unknown. But they had many other hits as well, like «It’s My Life«, «Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood» and «We Gotta Get Out of this Place«. Some think they were part of the «British invasion», but in truth I think they sort of missed it.

The band went through several personnel changes throughout the 1960’s. They even re-located to San Francisco and became somewhat of a psychedelic rock band. They still had hits like «San Franciscan Nights» and «Sky Pilot«. The Animals were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

It was 1963 when Eric Burdon joined the group Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo and changed its name to The Animals. The band originally was: Eric Burdon (lead singer), Alan Price (keyboards), Hilton Valentine (guitar), John Steel (drums) and Chas Chandler (bass). They played the blues, covering songs of John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Nina Simone and others.

Well, The Animals are still around…

Hope you liked it and tell me what you think about this classic, phenomenal band.

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Norman Greenbaum wrote a really cool and unusual song back in 1969 called «Spirit in the Sky«. It sold over 2 million copies turning into a gold record in the US. The song reached number 3 in the US and number 1 in the UK, Australia and Canada. Although Greenbaum is a Jew, he was inspired to write a gospel song on a Christian theme, meaning about Jesus. He said he wrote the words in just fifteen minutes. The song has been covered by gospel/Christian performers but my fave cover is the one I will post here by Doctor and the Medics (1986), (along side his own version).

What do you think?

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