JaZzArt en València

FLOWERS? FLOWERS FOR ME?
(Chapter 1)

Flowers for me dearest lady?

For me who has shunned your love,
your looks, your gentle touch?
Better leave those flowers, lady,
lying on a grave out there
than in my hands that do not care,
and that have never touched your skin.
Or is it that you don’t seem
to adore these precious flowers
and to while away the hours
you now have brought them to me?

C.2024 – Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 25 NOV 2024 – Valencia, España

Where do the northbound trains go when north is east and south is west and north is just a concept to consolidate all those thoughts that go unchallenged by our intellect and supported by our emotions?

Who will stand guard while the wise men sleep?

Why do so many stand at the station, waiting for the train to go northward, if they stand on their heads they are north and south is an illusion…

(C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 28 MAY 2023, Valencia, Spain)

From Málaga to A Coruña and from there to Barcelona… From the prestigious Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid), to Els Quatre Gats and from Barcelona to Paris… From a start at the «bateau lavoir» in Montmartre (1900) to the end at Mougins in 1973…

In a «nutshell» this was Pablo Picasso’s life. The child prodigy who grew up to be the «genius» of the 20th Century, the inventor of the collage, cubism and who opened the door to many of the art vanguards of the 20th Century was a card-carrying communist (but I won’t hold that against him), a womaniser, a…supposed…abuser and an infatigable artist who towards the end of his life decided to cannibalise most of art history…

Welcome to this post about my main and most important reference (as an artist), Pablo Ruiz Picasso. He was born in 1881 in Málaga, a small, provincial city in Andalucía, Spain. He died in a castle in southern France 91 years later. He lived life with abundance. He painted voraciously. His passion for life extended to many things including bullfighting, wine, women and clowning around. He must have had quite a unique sense of humour.

They say he was a child prodigy, but I don’t really think so. It’s hard to judge him against other children as we’ve no samples to view. But I can say that his father…who was an artist and an art professor…trained him well and taught him all he knew. So the young Pablo had a huge advantage over other children who might have also aspired to be the «genius» of art that Pablo ultimately became.

Here are some of his early works…

Although the last two show signs of knowledge, ability and technique, the first one doesn’t strike me as being the work of a child prodigy. Actually none of them do. With the training Pablo received, the coaching and the supervision of his father, it is no surprising he painted so well as a youth.

Part two coming very soon!

CHEERS…

Que se enteren los políticos…

HASTA EL MISMO SOL

Te miro y no me miras.
Te miro otra vez,
atravesando con mis ojos,
verdes,
limpios,
y que miran al pasado
y lo incorporan al futuro,
tu cuerpo,
invisible,
transparente,
con falta de ánimo,
con falta de sal,
o ¿Quizá tú eres de sal como la mujer de Lot?

Te miro,
pero tú no me verás,
y lo más triste es que sé
que me buscarás un día
y no me encontrarás,
pues el amor dado se acondiciona al amor recibido,
y además el muy cabrón abandona el corazón
si no es correspondido,
de la noche a la mañana
se fuga por las ventanas
tapiadas de la habitación.

Ya sabiendo que eres fría,
vanidosa,
celosa,
envidiosa,
y amante de los pedestales,
te elevare hasta el mismo sol
y allí te dejare…

2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera -21 de diciembre de 2024 – Valencia, España

En enero nacerá nuestro blog 23, será en ingles y español, a dos portadas. Se llama LatinosUSA, y va dedicado a los 46 millones de Latinos de EEUU. …

2025 / Carta del Director: Nace LatinosUSA by j re crivello

SUN DRENCHED TROPICS

Sunburnt skin
and bloodshot eyes,
wading in shallow water,
dirty feet have crossed through dirty sand,
forgetting all the fairy tales they’ve spoken.
Lies, confusion,
confusion, lies…

A figure,
(perhaps a man?)
rises from the shark infested ocean.
On his shoulders,
trembling from the icy cold of
sun-drenched tropics,
sit the forgotten,
the hungry,
the beautiful,
the ignorant
and the fools.
Where to my laughing friends?
The foolish ask..
As far as I can tell.
we’re on our way to hell…

C.2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 15 DEC 2024 – Valencia, España

Who was Susan Sontag? Well for those who do not know, I will tell you that she was a writer, a novelist, a philosopher as well as a professor, movie director and scriptwriter who also directed theatrical pieces. She was born in New York in 1933…

Susan was born of American Jewish parents. She was raised in Los Angeles and in Tucson, Arizona. She studied at the University of Berkley, and as well in Oxford, Chicago and Harvard. In some of these she also taught. Although she had a brief marriage to Philip Rieff, she divorced and began relationships with Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, with the Cuban playwright María Irene Fornés and with Annie Liebowitz during the final stages of her life.

​She was a prolific writer, both novels and movies. The movies she directed were: Duett för kannibaler (Duet for Cannibals) (1969), Broder Carl (Brother Carl) (1971), Promised Lands (1974) and Unguided Tour AKA Letter from Venice (1983). All these movies had limited viewings.

Susan Sontag died in 2004.

Fenomenal

Phenomenal

GRACIAS – CHEERS