Un dibujo es una pintura pero con menos elementos…
GRACIAS
#art, Dibujos de Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia
#art, Grace Hartigan
Grace Hartigan was an abstract expressionist painter of the so-called «School of New York». She was born in 1922 in the beautiful city (that I know quite well) of Newark, New Jersey. She hung out with all the artists, poets, writers of the time and of New York. Her good friends were Jackson Pollock, and Helen Frankenthaler. But she also frequented with Willem y Elaine de Kooning, as well as with others. Actually she was the only female artist to be part of the legendary exhibition «The New American Painting» that toured Europe in the 1950’s.
And I know you will ask me, what the hell is ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM? And I will tell you that it was a movement in painting that developed within the vanguard movement which was ABSTRACT ART. It was first called abstract expressionism in Germany (1919) when the magazine Der Sturm published an article about German Expressionism. In the US it was Alfred Barr (the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, the MoMA in Manhattan) that first used the term (1929) to classify Wassily Kandinsky’s paintings.
Abstract expressionists usually work with large canvasses. Their work is abstract, yet at times there can be traces of figuration. But it’s most important characteristic is what they call the «all over» effect, meaning that they cover every single centimetre of the canvas. The colours are few, mostly whites and blacks or primary colours like yellow, magenta and cyan. Some painters used only one colour, possibly anticipating minimalism. The paintings are done with violent brush-strokes without caring about the superiority of a horizontal or a vertical composition. Philosophically and psychologically, the artist tries to reproduce the anguish, conflict and strife that he feels exists and which he imagines surges from within society. Imagine that…
So to get to know Grace Hartigan a little better, I will tell you that she got married at the age of 19. In 1942 her husband was drafted to fight in WWII. She studied mechanical drafting and became a draftsman in an airplane factory. Later Hartigan studied painting with Isaac Lane Muse (American artist) with whom she got to know the work of Henri Matisse. Studying Kimon Nicolaïdes’s «The Natural Way to Draw» influenced her work as a painter.
Hartigan, who had struggled with alcoholism for many years, died at the age of 86 from liver failure in 2008.
Now for a look at some of her paintings…
CHEERS
#poem, «To Float in the Sky» (An Euro-Ku)
No mortal foot can touch…
No light more silver white…
No distractions, always bright.
C.2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 23 OCT 2024 – Valencia, Spain
NOTA BENE
The Euro-Ku, a style I developed in 2022, is the way a Western poet/writer can best approach a style of poetry native to Japan, the Haiku. As someone who does not have the history or the culture of an authentic Japanese poet, it is impossible to do justice to that honorable and long tradition. Therefore, wishing to honour the style but to give it the spirit that a work of art has when it is made in accordance to one’s place and time, I invented this new form, the Euro-Ku. It has three lines (stanzas, verses) but without a syllabic count (as our language does not have the same rhythms as the Japanese language), and each line must follow the previous one logically and sensibly. The lines cannot just go off floating in the air, as that works in Japanese but not in Western languages. And finally the poem must be accompanied by an illustration also of the authorship of the poet. Simple, clear, spiritual and in accordance to Western history and culture.
#art, travel, Pels carrers de València
…14 graus a València aquest matí, però amb sol, un bell dia…
I també m’he trobat amb aquesta bogeria…
GRÀCIES
#art, La paloma de Nueva York – The Pigeon of New York!
Bueno dicen que la escultura es hiperrealista, pero yo diría surrealista… Se llama «Dinosaurio» y esta en el High Line Manhattan a la altura de la Calle 30 y la 10a Avenida…
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Well, they are calling it a hyper-realistic sculpture, I call it surreal. It is called «Dinosaur» and it is on the High Line, at the intersection of 30th Street and 10th Ave. Manhattan
La ha esculpido Iván Argote, un escultor colombiano. Está hecha de aluminio y pintada a mano. (Créditos a High Line Park)
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It was created by Colombian sculptor Iván Argote, and made totally of aluminium and painted by hand. (Credits High Line Park)
¿Imaginaos las cagadas de tal bicho? Pero, ¿Quién las va a esculpir?
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Can you imagine the pigeon shit? Who’s going to sculpt that?
GRACIAS – CHEERS
#art, I am Bodo Vespaciano, Artist…
I started my art career back when I lived in the US (Miami, FL) and it was back in the early 80’s although I did not venture into the profession until the 1990’s. I started in Theatre. I wrote, produced, acted, danced, played and composed music. In Miami, at the time, there was not much in the way of theatre and art, so I took my «show» on the road. First through Florida, which proved even slower than Miami. Then I went to New York where I did exhibitions in Chelsea, Soho and Brooklyn. A small theatre company (whose name I do not even recall) actually did one of my short plays off, off Broadway… Those were wonderful beginnings during a time when there was no talk of censorship or of radical (crazy) politicians trying to motivate hatred or internet or mobile phones…
CHEERS
#art, What’s Going On?
We are working… An artist has to re-vindicate himself with every work he creates. One cannot say “I’m an artist and everything I do is art”. One is an artist from piece to piece. If you don’t work, work hard, I mean, you do not further your talent, and without talent your work will be rubbish. The job of the artist is constant, non stop, 24/7 by 365 days. But the artist only exists while he is actually creating art.
So, here at Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia we are working. Not all of us are artists in the same way, but we all work. Here is what Bodo Vespaciano is doing…
CHEERS
#art, Artist William Kentridge
Well, he is known for several things, not just illustrations, but for animated films, engravings and collages. He became quite better known after appearing in the 1997 Johannesburg and Havana Biennale… He was born 69 years ago in Johannesburg, South Africa… He started creating animated films during the 1980’s… But, from 1975 to 1991 his love of theatre led him to become a member of «The junction avenue theatre company» in Johannesburg and Soweto. Then, in 1992 he began to act, direct and design sets for «The Handspring Puppet Company«. They did pieces by Woyzek, Fausto and Ubu Rey, where the pieces are done using marionettes, actors and animation… In 2004 his films were shown at the Cannes Film Festival…
CHEERS
#art, I am Bodo Vespaciano, Artist…
I started my art career back when I lived in the US (Miami, FL) and it was back in the early 80’s although I did not venture into the profession until the 1990’s. I started in Theatre. I wrote, produced, acted, danced, played and composed music. In Miami, at the time, there was not much in the way of theatre and art, so I took my «show» on the road. First through Florida, which proved even slower than Miami. Then I went to New York where I did exhibitions in Chelsea, Soho and Brooklyn. A small theatre company (whose name I do not even recall) actually did one of my short plays off, off Broadway… Those were wonderful beginnings during a time when there was no talk of censorship or of radical (crazy) politicians trying to motivate hatred or internet or mobile phones…
CHEERS
#art, What’s Going On?
We are working… An artist has to re-vindicate himself with every work he creates. One cannot say “I’m an artist and everything I do is art”. One is an artist from piece to piece. If you don’t work, work hard, I mean, you do not further your talent, and without talent your work will be rubbish. The job of the artist is constant, non stop, 24/7 by 365 days. But the artist only exists while he is actually creating art.
So, here at Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia we are working. Not all of us are artists in the same way, but we all work. Here is what Bodo Vespaciano is doing…
CHEERS
JaZzArt en València 