JaZzArt en València

Should there be censorship in art? Yes. What!!! Let me explain. I think that there should be no censorship in art at all, except when it comes to illegal acts. If your «art» (conceptual art) is beating up an unfortunate in the street to take his money to buy the wine for your gallery’s vernissage, you have not created «art», you have committed aggravated strong-arm robbery and you should go to jail. If you abuse of animals or any other living thing to «create» art, then you have not the right to do so. It should be censored and you should be punished. But anything else, no matter how tasteless it might be, as long as it is legal, should not be censored.

What do you think?

Is showing a nipple (in a painting or in art photography) on Instagram something wrong? Is it immoral? Or if you post your art (nudes) on YouTube, are you offending the general audience? Classical paintings can be shown as they are, but modern ones that I paint, or you? If we post them on social media they get censored! Incredible!

What do you think?

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Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia is very happy and proud, to introduce to you a new artist coming to join us. She goes by the name of GAB and she is an abstract painter who mostly creates her abstract world on glass, mainly bottles. These are the bottles of fine Spanish wine that we drink here at VALENCIARTIST and that later she uses it as the support for her work.

WELCOME!

ENJOY SOME OF HER WORK ON BOTTLES:

On the next entry we will feature some of her paintings…

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The weightlessness of feeling cautious love as one is floating like a cloud,

can be like warm chilled breezes that caress the gentle sea,

the moistened lips, embraces, circle round like grains of sand that cry beneath one’s feet.

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A Euro-Ku is my homage to the Japanese haiku (poem), but made from a Western perspective. There are no syllabic restrictions, just three parts, which must communicate directly the message, and an original illustration by the author. The euro-ku must flow logically and not drift off into outer space. As a non-Japanese person it would be impossible for me to imitate a formal haiku as I’ve not the history or the experience of one born in Japan.

On the bridge over blue waters running peacefully,
warriors, priests, princes and kings
are floating in the molecules,
that give life to the water,
that creates the river
and gives movement to reflections.
Fantasy,
Like the smoke from my Gitanes,
gives life to the characters
who represent,
who recite my poetry,
who engage us in the game called history
that never ends,
or that perhaps one day,
when the moon abandons our earthly sky,
it will…

C.2024-Francisco Bravo Cabrera-30 SEP 2024-Izmir, Turkey

One of the most beautiful ballerinas the ballet world has ever seen. And as a matter of fact for history, Anna Pavlova did change the aesthetics of a female dancer. The fact that she was slim, and ethereal, and not strong and short like previous ballerinas, revolutionised the ballet world…

Anna Pavlova was born in St. Petersburg in 1881. She was a principal dancer with The Imperial Russian Ballet as well as with The Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. She was internationally recognised for creating the role of The Dying Swan, (1905) choreographed by Michel Fokine with the music of «Le Cygne» (The Swan), from the Carnaval of the Animals (1887), composed by Camille Saint-Saëns. She was also brilliant in other roles from ballets like Swan Lake, Les Sylphides and Coppelia. Pavlova had her own company and with it she was the first female principal dancer to tour the world. She danced not only in Russia and Europe but also in South America, Australia, Mexico and India.

When Anna was nine years old she was taken by her mother to see Marius Petipa’s production of The Sleeping Beauty at the Imperial Maryinsky Theatre (1890). Anna was so impressed that she wanted to dance and her mother took her to audition for the Imperial Ballet School but she was rejected. The next year she came back and was accepted (1891). Her first stage appearance, as a student for the school was in Petipa’s Un conte de fées, specially staged for a student performance.

Anna had a brilliant career. She was also an exceptionally giving and charitable person. She had many girls living in a home she supported in Paris. And as well she was a passionate animal lover. She had many cats, dogs, birds and even a swan and often posed with them for photographs. She had a favourite swan which she named Jack with whom she had a portrait done.

Anna Pavlova died of pleurisy two days before her 50th birthday. It is said that he last words were, «Get my Swan costume ready.» Following an old ballet tradition, when she was to have performed a single spotlight circled an empty stage where Pavlova would have danced.

As a lover of music and dance, I find poetry in both art forms and a brilliant poet in a most dedicated dancer such as Mme. Pavlova. I hope you enjoy this short clip of The Swan. I understand that with the advances and the gymnastics included in most of today’s ballets or dance pieces, her work may look simple and archaic. But remember that this was from 1905.

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Shirin is most assuredly the most well known Iranian artist, at this time. She was born in 1957 in Qazvin, Iran and presently lives in New York. She has an extensive body of photographic work as well as audio-visuals. And her work mostly centres around the topic of women, their condition and how they are treated in Islamic countries… Neshat was raised in a family that adhered to the values of the Shah of Iran and admired western values. Her primary education was at a Catholic school in Teheran. This is how she developed the ideas of feminism and other western codes of behaviour which became a fundamental part of her artwork… In 1974 she moved to Los Angeles to begin her art studies. While there (1979) the government of the Shah was overturned by the Islamic Revolution… She enrolled at University of California in Berkeley and completed her Bachelor of Arts (1979), Master of Arts (1981) and Master of Fine Arts in 1982… After graduation she relocated to New York.

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EL FUEGO

Del sur nos absorben los vientos huracanados
que desguazan las velas de los bares,
y lo único lindo que nos dejan
es que ahora podemos ver las nubes bailar al compas de su silbido…

Mientras que el fuego,
devorador de sueños,
zigzaguea por los bosques,
sorteando las junglas,
despeinando las dehesas,
culminando en las aceras sucias,
que ni el acido muriático ha logrado desinfectar,
para que sus llamas resplandezcan,
y se engrandezcan,
tomando forma humana…

Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 24/26 de diciembre de 2024 – Valencia, España

Shirin is most assuredly the most well known Iranian artist, at this time. She was born in 1957 in Qazvin, Iran and presently lives in New York. She has an extensive body of photographic work as well as audio-visuals. And her work mostly centres around the topic of women, their condition and how they are treated in Islamic countries… Neshat was raised in a family that adhered to the values of the Shah of Iran and admired western values. Her primary education was at a Catholic school in Teheran. This is how she developed the ideas of feminism and other western codes of behaviour which became a fundamental part of her artwork… In 1974 she moved to Los Angeles to begin her art studies. While there (1979) the government of the Shah was overturned by the Islamic Revolution… She enrolled at University of California in Berkeley and completed her Bachelor of Arts (1979), Master of Arts (1981) and Master of Fine Arts in 1982… After graduation she relocated to New York.

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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

Always loved art… Siempre me ha gustado el arte

Always loved the theatre… Siempre me ha gustado el teatro

Always loved music… Siempre me ha gustado la música

Always loved to write… Siempre me ha gustado escribir

Always loved to draw… Siempre me ha gustado dibujar

Always loved to paint… Siempre me ha gustado pintar

And I still do. And I still do all those things. But we go through stages in life where we learn and develop skills and fine tune our talent. Here are some of the things I did during a certain time in my career as an artist… Y todavia me gusta, y todavia hago todas esas cosas. Pero atravesamos etapas en la vida que nos valen para aprender y para desarrollar talento. Aqui os muestro las obras que hice durante un periodo en particular de mi carrera de artista…

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All artwork is for sale and if you are interested you can inquire here:

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