JaZzArt en València

#art, Doing Art in Türkiye 2024

(Aegean coast of Türkiye/photo by Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)

A wonderful country which I visit as often as I can…

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#art, El arte es la búsqueda…

(Ilustración de Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados)

Siempre lo he dicho, el arte es buscar, buscar tema, buscar soluciones, buscar la mejor manera de transmitir ideas, buscar el tamaño preciso, la composición perfecta, los colores que le den vida, y buscar, buscar, ad nauseam. Pero tío, si no encuentras no ha hecho nada.

(2020/Don’t forget to like, comment and share)

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#art, #photos, Divendres a València – Viernes en Valencia – Friday in Valencia

(Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Actor Portrayal)

Valencia es una ciudad muy especial. Todos los días hay una energía atractiva que nos carga de creatividad y cosas buenas… Me encanta caminar por las calles, no solo de mi barrio, sino de todo la ciudad. Cada sección tiene su sabor único (como en tu ciudad, supongo) pero aquí somos bendecidos con sol (la mayor parte del año) e inviernos bastante suaves… En cualquier caso, di un paseo hoy (como de costumbre) y aquí está lo que vi después de desayunar en mi lugar favorito…

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Valencia is a very special city. Everyday there is some kind of appealing energy that charges us with creativity and with good things… I love to walk through the streets, not only of my neighbourhood, but everywhere in the city. Each section has its unique flavour (like in your city, I reckon) but here we are blessed with sunshine (most of the year) and rather mild winters… In any event, I took a walk today (as usual) and here is what I saw after I had breakfast at my favourite place…

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

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#poem, “Blue-Green Butterflies (a Euro-Ku)

If I stood alone, away from all distractions and focused only on one minuscule attraction,

a blu-green butterfly, let’s say,

would thoughts come easy?

C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 18 JUL 2023, València, España

#art, Gino Severini (Esp/Eng)

(Archivio Biblioteca Quadriennale di Roma)

Este artista para mi era casi un desconocido. Fue uno de los lideres del movimiento futurista, o sea, una de las vanguardias del arte del Siglo XX. Nació en 1883 en la Toscana (Cortona). Su trabajo artístico realizado entre el 1910 y el 1915 logro unir el futurismo con el aspecto constructivo del cubismo. En 1906 se va a París donde se codea con Picasso, Braque y Juan Gris y profundiza de tal manera en el cubismo que en 1921 publica un libro titulado Del cubismo al clasicismo. En 1924 se torna hacia la religiosidad y comienza una etapa nueva de obras religiosas que duró hasta 1934. Luego en los años del 1940 comenzó a trabajar la abstracción. Regresa al futurismo durante la década de los 1950. Murió en 1966 y fue enterrado en Cortona. En su obra vibran los colores.

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This artist was almost unknown to me. He was one of the leaders of the Futurist movement, that is, one of the art vanguards of the 20th-century. He was born in 1883 in Tuscany (Cortona). His artistic work done between 1910 and 1915 managed to combine Futurism with the constructive aspect of Cubism. In 1906, he moved to Paris, where he mingled with Picasso, Braque, and Juan Gris, and delved so deeply into Cubism that in 1921 he published a book titled From Cubism to Classicism. In 1924, he turned towards religiosity and began a new phase of religious works that lasted until 1934. Then, in the 1940s, he began to explore abstraction. He returned to Futurism during the 1950s. He died in 1966 and was buried in Cortona. In his work, colours vibrate.

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Artists Series: Pablo Picasso (More on the Genius of the XXth Century)

(AI image, which it got all wrong, good grief AI! I just experimented folks, I am not into AI and probably never use it again, at least not for something serious/Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved

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…

(«El picador amarillo»/1891/Photo My Modern Met)

(«La primera comunión»/1896/Photo My Modern Met)

(«Ciencia y caridad»/1897/Photo My Modern Met)

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!

(2022)

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Felicidades del cómico más grande de Miami…

De Miami y para siempre el más grande de los cómicos cubanos…

#art, Drawings from Mid-Brain – Bodo Vespaciano

(Proto Jazz-Art/Francisco Bravo Cabrera/a.k.a. Bodo Vespaciano/All Rights Reserved)

I have been engaged in art for most of my life. When I was a lad I was more interested in writing, especially novels. Later I got into writing songs, taught myself to play the guitar and the bass and joined several bands. Later I created my own bands and even had a pretty decent home studio where I recorded many of my tunes. Later, and all of this was intertwined with my service in the Army and later my work in the police service, I got into painting. I was enrolled at uni and took drawing and painting as electives and got to really like it. My first paintings were done in oil and oil pastels. They sold rather well and quickly, but since it was in the days where there were no iPhone cameras I’ve no pictures of them. But I do recall that I painted them while my cat, Kitri was rummaging through the paints and getting greens, blues and reds all over her white coat…

Well, it took some time, but time passes and one must do something, so what I did was that I put my painting on hold, (actually for almost 7 years) and I decided to draw. It is very important to develop the skill of drawing and I experimented with ink, and with different types of graphite. I avoided charcoal or crayons because I found them messy and un-necessary. So these are some of the drawings I call «Pre- (or proto) Jazz Art». The Jazz art ones came about a year or two later…