JaZzArt en València

«To move is to accept life, to paint is to accept spirituality, to create art is to reach inside and pull out bits and pieces then joining them in ways that only you can comprehend, yet you hope that others will as well.» (Francisco Bravo Cabrera)

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FEATURES en VALENCIARTIST ya ha comenzado. Esperamos que os unáis a nosotros y también que disfrutéis de los poetas, escritores, artistas y más que en la serie veréis. Los protagonistas serán entrevistados y además publicaremos sus biografías y muestras de sus trabajos artísticos.

Aquí va nuestra cordial invitación para que todos participéis.

Si eres poeta, escritor, artista o te dedicas a alguna de las bellas artes, puedes ser protagonista de FEATURES. Para unirte, solo tienes que responder a esta publicación con tu dirección de correo electrónico para que podamos ponernos en contacto contigo con la información necesaria.

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FEATURES on VALENCIARTIST has begun. Hope you join us. And we certainly hope you enjoy the poets, writers, artists and more which will be featured. All protagonists will be interviewed, a bio and samples of their work for your delight will be included.

We cordially invite you to join! If you are a poet, writer, artist or are engaged in any of the fine arts, you can be a protagonist of FEATURES. To join all you have to do is reply to this post with your email address so that we can contact you with the information necessary.

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Ok, so my artwork is surreal-expressionism. You know that and you already know that It has nothing to do with your visual reality or your impression of reality. It has everything to do with how I think things should look like and appear in «life». In other words, it is my vision of reality. Everything about surreal-expressionism is internal, including the original reference. In that way it has a lot to do with abstract expressionism, or abstract art (properly stated).

So… This means that to paint an abstract, an abstract expressionist work or a surreal-expressionist one, one faces, or encounters the same problems that any strictly figurative artist encounters. One must consider the subject matter, what is to be «expressed», the size, the colour scheme, the composition and a million other things that continue to travel with you on the road to completing your painting. Abstract art, and abstract expressionism ends up being much more difficult to manage and finish because the reference is not readily available, so one has to continually imagine it, (as it is internal). This means that it may be hard to determine when the painting is actually finished or if it can take a few more brushstrokes.

The example above is of my latest painting «Nilo» (like the River Nile). It started off being surreal, then changed to expressionist, then to abstract expressionist and now has ended up being a hybrid, surreal-expressionism. It is the portrait of an owl, therefore it is figurative. But in abstract expressionism certain aspects of figuration are permitted (not in abstract art) so I could have followed that road to the finish. However, I did not think the message was being said correctly (the first problem).

By changing the style the message changes, so I found that by solving that first problem I could continue on to the finish. But I did not want a realistic owl, or one that was fully surrealistic. So I changed the colour scheme and the second problem was solved. From there on it became rather expressionistic. Again a problem arose. It was not «talking» to me, and I pity the artist that does not listen to his paintings!

If I would have left the painting as an abstract-expressionist work, the owl could not have been so well defined and I wanted some precise definition. So again a problem. This time it was solved by changing the style again to something I could work with happily and thoroughly. And that can make my painting say what I wanted, have the colour scheme I chose, the size and the composition in the way I had prepared it through several sketches. Surreal-expressionism was the only way.

Only now… I am not sure it is finished… What do you think?

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The image of «Nilo» above does not properly represent the painting. I have manipulated the digital photo and changed the intensity, hue and shadings. I have done this because, as I said before, the painting is not finished.

The celebration of the days that Kemal Ataturk arrived in this wonderful peninsula called Cesme and in the town of Ilica. It is remembered on the 8th and 9th of July and this is how they have remembered…

There was much singing and dancing and a happy time was had by all.

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Courtesy of a phenomenal collector who has owned it for over a decade…

This was JaZzArT (Surreal-Expressionism) in its earliest stages…

There you see it in details and also see the actor portraying me, Bodo Vespaciano.

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Art in black and white, whether it be a drawing or a painting is as complex and as complete as art in colour. It only has less elements.

“Art begins as a thought, it is a cognitive process, influenced by the artists’ taste, experience and technical abilities. It is not random or intuitive. Art is contrived, modelled, rehearsed, planned and guided. It is objective, subjective. Art is not spontaneous and not made to create an interest in a product, thing or person. Art is created to reach the soul and perhaps to nourish the spirit.”

(Bodo Vespaciano)

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Courtesy of a phenomenal collector who has owned it for over a decade…

This was JaZzArT (Surreal-Expressionism) in its earliest stages…

There you see it in details and also see the actor portraying me, Bodo Vespaciano.

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Well friends, those who know Bodo Vespaciano, know that he transfers part of VALENCIARTIST/Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia, to Turkiye* every summer and here we are…

*Yes, it may look strange or misspelled but that is the official name of the Republic of Turkiye, formerly known in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, as Turkey. They want no confusion with the fowl of the same English name. In my country (Spain) it’s never been an issue.

VALENCIARTIST will be reporting, transmitting and enjoying this summer place on a daily basis. Pardon for the adjustment period but we will be on track ipso facto. And for those who wish to participate as writers/poets/artists protagonists on FEATURES, please send us your email address so that we can be in contact and «feature» you!

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