JaZzArt en València

This ink on Cansol paper I did in 2013, still experimenting with the creation of Jazz Art, and it is symbolic of a jazz group jamming away. Rhythms start and flow, grow and diminish in their musical dynamics but the beat, an essential element of jazz still continues…

This, together with some other, very special items, I have made available through Pixels and you can access them here so take a look…

And here is a short video of some of my other work…

Cheers…

Check out this painting, now as a fine art print…

This is something new I decided to do several months ago. Until then I have always sold my paintings and drawings to collectors and art lovers as unique and original items. Now I will try this new approach as I have been asked many times if my artwork is available as prints. Well, now some of it is available.

I have selected some of my illustrations and even some of my colour work to be available as fine art prints through Pixels and you can see them here.

Hoping you like it I leave you with this video of some more of my work at Omnia Caelum Studios (Miami) and Valencia:

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A truly hard working, prolific artist. In 1973 there were about 45,000 unsold works in his estate. The catalogue raisonné compiled by Christian Zervos, lists more than 16,000 paintings and drawings in total for the artist. And he painted them all himself, he did not use workers hired to finish what he started or simply touched up, like so many modern artists nowadays do.

I truly would advice any art lover, art collector and especially art students and emerging artists, to look further, to read biographies of artists and to search, experiment, and work, hard, real hard. That is the only way to develop talent.

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Was he a child prodigy? Did he show signs of being a genius even as a child? I don’t really think so at all, but you decide…

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Of course this is my opinion, and I respect all opinions. And though I know that art is what you make of it, that you decide what is good and what is bad, art is still an academic subject and should be judged in accordance to the rules of art. Taste is something else. Tell me what you think.

Cheers…

Visitanos en Instagram: @Francisco_Bravo_Cabrera y @Guloshka y claro, puedes explorar todos los vídeos que tengo colgados en YouTube.

Gracias…

Bueno, hace unos días en subasta, se vendió un cuadro de Jean Michel Basquiat por la friolera de 48 millones de dólares (USD)… Así son las millonadas que pagan coleccionistas por obras de arte, y dicho sea de paso, casi todas son obras tradicionales, digamos pinturas, y la mayoría figurativas. Eso dice mucho… En primer lugar que el mundo del arte gira en un espacio controlado por el dinero, y bueno, dinero en abundancia. Desde que un jeque árabe pagó mas de 400 millones por el «Salvator Mundi» (Atribuido a Leonardo), los millones han fluido como el agua. Yo diría como fluye el agua sucia por entre las manos de los pobres en en tercer mundo que tienen que beber agua sucia con estiércol y tierra y comer migajas, si las encuentran, vivir en chozas y defenderse de los depredadores humanos que los usan como carne de cañón… Los pobres del mundo que también hacen arte, pero ese arte no lo ve nadie, ni lo compra nadie, y si es bueno, muy bueno, y lo descubre uno de estos depredadores, se lo roba para luego subastarlo en Christie’s o Sothebys por millones… Estamos llegando a la época de la navidad, debemos pensar un poquitin en los demás.

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Well, a few days ago at auction, a painting by Jean Michel Basquiat was sold for the staggering amount of 48 million dollars (USD)… This is the kind of money collectors pay for works of art, and by the way, almost all of them are traditional works, meaning paintings, and most are figurative. That says a lot… Firstly, it indicates that the art world operates in a space controlled by money, and well, an abundance of it… Ever since an Arab sheikh paid more than 400 million for the «Salvator Mundi» (Attributed to Leonardo de Vince), millions have flowed like water. I would say it flows like dirty water through the hands of the poor in the Third World, who have to drink filthy water mixed with faeces and dirt and eat scraps, if they can find any, living in shacks and defending themselves against human predators who use them as cannon fodder… The poor of the world also create art, but that art goes unseen, unsold, and if it’s good, very good, and discovered by one of these predators, it is stolen to later be auctioned at Christie’s or Sotheby’s for millions… We are approaching the Christmas season; we should think a little about others.

GRACIAS – CHEERS

Art is objective, do not doubt it. Art possesses inherent qualities: form, structure, composition, skill, harmony and originality. These qualities can be judged independently of personal taste. I do not argue with taste. Individual likes and dislikes are subjective,. But the value of art is rooted in these objective elements that give it enduring power and universal resonance, and this goes way beyond the shifting opinions of art lovers.

To say “art is subjective” is making of art a non-standardised, non-professional endeavour and it is a refuge for people unwilling to face standards. Taste, for sure is subjective, and people can still have good or bad taste, and not just in their breath. Art is not like that. A painting or a symphony is not a matter of preference in the same way as choosing vanilla or chocolate. Works of art embody objective qualities: proportion, rhythm, innovation, mastery of medium, coherence of vision. These are measurable and comparable, regardless of whether one “likes” them.

To reduce art to opinion is ridiculous and to distorts the difference between genius and banality. It’s like saying Mozart’s music is equal to elevator music, or that a Rembrandt is equal to child’s doodle. The serious study of art, as an academic pursuit and as a profession, recognizes that, although taste fluctuates, the core of art does not and it endures based upon objective principles. Without them even the word art would lose its meaning.

CHEERS

COMING SOON

Part 2: Art can only be divided into GOOD and BAD art.

Part 3: Good and bad artists and art

Floto como una barca sobre tus aguas sobre tu seno.

Pienso que soy gaviota volando libre por tanto cielo,

cielo que ahora dibujas de oro y de azul,

entre las nubes vas tu tejiendo la fuerte luz,

luz que baila con sombras por alegrias,

al ver que ya ha amanecido este nuevo día.

C.2022, Francis Bravo Cabrera, 14 de enero 2022, València, España 🇪🇸