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Para mi el expresionismo y la abstracción, son las mas validas de las vanguardias del S. XX – – – For me Expressionism and Abstract Art, are the two most important of the vanguards of the XX C.

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Of course when one thinks of abstract expressionism one thinks of action painting and when one thinks of that one thinks of Jackson Pollock. However, he was not the only one in this unique group of vanguard artists, most from the United States, working a style that was developed thoroughly and completely in the States. Others like the ones I have featured here, especially the forgotten female painter (as so many are in Art History), Janet Sobel and Pollock’s own wife, Lee Krasner…

In any event, this is not a very exciting type of art for me, but it may be for you and it is important to know about it. So enjoy the video. If you don’t know much about action painting, i.e. abstract expressionism, then this will be a good introduction. But my main intention is getting you to look further, look beyond and get to know more, especially if you are an artist, or a collector or a lover of art…

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Eva Gonzalès fue una pintora impresionista francesa (1849-1883)… Y aunque la conocieron en la historia del arte como modelo, especialmente de Manet, ya se está haciendo conocer como artista. AL fin y al cabo, fue impresionista y discípula del propio Manet… Su padre, de origen español, fue novelista y su madre fue música bien reconocida, así que podemos ver que Eva estuvo rodeada de arte desde pequeña y eso tuvo que haber influido mucho en su vida, y la joven comenzó a estudiar pintura a los 16 años bajo el maestro Charles Joshua Chaplin, que pensaba que para que una mujer artista triunfase tenia que estar casada… Pero en 1869 Eva conoce a Édouard Manet y pide ser su alumna… Y todavia insisten en que lo único importante que hizo la Gonzalès fue ser la musa de Manet y famosa por ser la modelo del retrato que el le hizo en 1870… En 1870 expone en París por primera vez, aún fiel a Manet y no exponiendo con los impresionistas… Pero en 1871, influenciada ahora por Edgar Degas, comienza otra etapa pictórica para Eva con tonos más suaves y líneas al estilo Degas… En 1879 se casó y tuvo una hija, Julie. Lamentablemente falleció a consecuencia de una embolia post-partum el 5 de mayo de 1883. Eva tenia sólo 34 años de edad y fue enterrada en el cementerio de Montmartre, en París.

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Eva Gonzalès was a French Impressionist painter (1849-1883)… And although she was known in art history as a model, especially for Manet, she is becoming recognized as an artist in her own right. After all, she was an Impressionist and a disciple of Manet himself… Her father, of Spanish origin, was a novelist, and her mother was a well-recognized musician, so we can see that Eva was surrounded by art from a young age, which must have influenced her life significantly. The young artist began studying painting at the age of 16 under the master Charles Joshua Chaplin, who believed that for a female artist to succeed, she needed to be married… But in 1869, Eva met Édouard Manet and asked to be his student… Yet they still insist that the only important thing Gonzalès did was to be Manet’s muse and to be famous for being the model of the portrait he painted of her in 1870… In 1870, she exhibited in Paris for the first time, still loyal to Manet and not exhibiting with the Impressionists… However, in 1871, now influenced by Edgar Degas, she began a new pictorial phase with softer tones and lines in the style of Degas… In 1879, she got married and had a daughter, Julie. Unfortunately, she passed away due to a postpartum embolism on May 5, 1883. Eva was only 34 years old and was buried in Montmartre Cemetery in Paris.

Obras de EvaGonzalès – Paintings by Eva Gonzalès

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Para mi este pintor maldito fue un genio del expresionismo… Y para mi el expresionismo, o sea esa tendencia artística que surgió en Europa central a comienzos del S. XX, es mi forma preferida para expresar el arte que llevo dentro. El artista no pinta lo que ve en el mundo natural, si no lo que siente, lo que intuye, lo que se imagina y lo expresa de una forma bruta, fuerte, con colores agresivos, con trazos largos y sueltos, casi caricaturescos son los cuadros expresionistas y un autentico fenómeno… Lo he pintado, o sea, a mi estilo, el surreal-expresionismo, primero mas o menos a la edad que murió, 28 años, y también como me lo imagino de mayor…

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For me, this painter was a genius among the expressionists… And for me, expressionism, the art vanguard that emerged in central Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, is my preferred way to express the art that I carry within. The artist does not paint what he sees in the natural world, but what he feels, what he intuits. He paints what he imagines nature is and expresses it in a raw, strong way, with aggressive colours, long and loose strokes, almost caricatured are the expressionist paintings and a real phenomenon… I have painted it, I mean, in my style, surreal-expressionism, first more or less at the age he died, 28 years old, and also as I imagine him when older…

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René Magritte, el gran pintor surrealista, dijo una vez: «La mente ama lo desconocido. Ama las imágenes cuyo significado es desconocido, ya que el significado de la mente misma es desconocido.» Y aunque no era un expresionista, per se, lo que dijo se lo añado al expresionismo porque el expresionismo busca representar imágenes cuyo significado es desconocido. Esa es la esencia del expresionismo. Estoy completamente de acuerdo en que la mente es un misterio y que ama símbolos, imágenes y todo lo relacionado con misterios. Los expresionistas no buscan reproducir la vida, sino crearla en el lienzo con pintura.

Van Gogh podría haber sido el Padre del Expresionismo en la pintura. Él aportó gran energía y emoción en sus obras, algo que los expresionistas también buscan hacer. En la música expresionista, se puede decir que Arnold Schönberg es el Padre de la Música Expresionista. Comprendió la profundidad de los sentimientos y la búsqueda interna del artista, quien busca plasmar una expresión de la realidad que pocos pueden entender. Así dijo: «Si es arte, no es para todos, y si es para todos, entonces no es arte.» Y creo que captó el verdadero significado del expresionismo en todas las formas de arte.

Dentro del Expresionismo podemos encontrar el Surrealismo, el Simbolismo, el Futurismo, el Fauvismo, el Cubismo, el Vorticismo y el Dadaísmo. Todos estos, que se consideran entre las muchas vanguardias del arte del siglo XX, se sublevan contra los parámetros establecidos en el Impresionismo y el Postimpresionismo. Fue arte que surgió del resentimiento y la tragedia, ya que los expresionistas originales lucharon contra los peligros y los horrores de su mundo, que estaba mayormente enredado en guerras mundiales. Por lo tanto, la necesidad de expresar mundos ocultos y secretos se convirtió en la motivación, y fue el catalizador que permitió la creación de sus obras maestras.

Entre los muchos expresionistas que admiro se encuentran los pintores: Edward Munch, Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka y Gabriele Münter. En el ámbito de la música, grandes compositores expresionistas son Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Igor Stravinsky y Alexander Scriabin. En el cine, podemos encontrar películas expresionistas como El Gabinete del Dr. Caligari (1920), De la Aurora a la Medianoche (1920), Destino (1921) y Nosferatu (1922). Y, por supuesto, tenemos escritores como Kafka y filósofos como Hume, Bergson, Nietzsche, Proust y Kant. Todos buscaron dignificar e envigorizar al Nuevo Hombre y rechazar los principios anteriores, en su mayoría ligados a la sociedad anterior al siglo XX.

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René Magritte, the great surrealist painter once said: «The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.» And although he was not an expressionist, I can certainly add that statement to expressionism because representing images whose meaning is unknown is the essence of expressionism. I agree wholeheartedly that the mind is a mystery and that it loves symbols, images and everything concerning other mysteries. Expressionists seek not to reproduce life but to create it in the canvas with paint…

Van Gogh could well have been the Father of Expressionism in painting. He brought forth great energy and emotion in his paintings and this is something that expressionists seek as well. In expressionist music, one can say that Arnold Schönberg is the Father of Expressionist Music. He understood the depth of feeling and the internal quest of the artist as he seeks to bring forth an expression of reality that few can understand. So he said: «If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, then it is not art.» And I think he captured the true meaning of expressionism in all manners of art.

Within Expressionism we can find Surrealism, Symbolism, Futurism, Fauvism, Cubism, Vorticism, and Dadaism. All of these, which are some of the vanguards of XXth Century art, are a revolt against the parameters set in Impressionism and post-Impressionism. It was art that grew out of resentment and tragedy as the original expressionists battled the dangers and the horrors of their world which was mostly entangled in world wars. Therefore the need to express hidden and secret worlds became the motivation, the catalyst that allowed for the creation of their masterworks.

Among the many expressionists that I admire are painters like Edward Munch, Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and Gabriele Münter. In the field of music great expressionist composers are Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Igor Stravinsky and Alexander Scriabin. In the cinema we can find expressionist films like, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), From Morn to Midnight (1920), Destiny (1921), and Nosferatu (1922). And of course you have writers, like Kafka and philosophers, like Hume, Bergson, Nietzsche, Proust, and Kant. All sought to dignify and invigorate the New Man and reject the previous principles mostly tied to pre XXth Century society.

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GRACIAS – CHEERS

A little bit of you within a shadow,some parts of me within nothing at all… The sweat that once caressed our skinis now just stains upon the satin …

“A LITTLE BIT OF YOU” by Francisco Bravo Cabrera

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THE CONDITIONAL COMFORT OF THE SNOOZE BUTTON

Thoughts pretend
Actions are real
Seek comfort,
Make a deal.
Reality is enhanced in your dreams,
and dreams become what they seem,

and you sleep knowing the alarm bell will wake you so you won’t miss your bus to destiny…

Routine runs
while daylight fades,
so how can you be what I say?
How can I ignore the warnings,
when I know that changes
can be so alarming?
Strange women come and slap my face,

and what if I sleep till noon tonight, the alarm bell will wake me in due time to catch my bus to destiny…

Beer and pretzels
Warm recliner
Espresso coffee at roadside diners
My head is thoroughly confused
Synapses fried with too much news
I don’t want to think no more,

‘Cause I’ve a snooze button I command when the alarm clock warns me I should stand and take my bus to destiny…

C.2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 24/04/2024/10/05/2025 – Valencia, Spain

Joni is a friend and fellow poet. It is a pleasure to talk to her here in LatinosUSA and bring you a little more about Joni. But first let me tell …

Talking With Poet Joni Caggiano, by Francisco Bravo Cabrera…

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Cheers

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