JaZzArt en València

MOLTES GRÀCIES – MUCHAS GRACIAS

¿Qué pensáis?

Tina Modotti fue fotógrafa, artista y revolucionaria… Nació en 1896 en Udine, Italia. Fue también modelo, actriz y activista del Comintern. Vivió en San Francisco, EEUU y luego, en 1922, se trasladó a México donde militó en el Partido Comunista Mexicano. Parece que en esa época era popular unirse a causas fallidas, como ahora lo es también, pero bueno, para gusto los colores. La presento aquí porque presento a todas que han aportado algo a la historia del arte…

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Tina Modotti was a photographer, artist, and revolutionary… She was born in 1896 in Udine, Italy. She was also a model, actress, and activist of the Comintern. She lived in San Francisco, USA, and then, in 1922, moved to Mexico where she was involved in the Mexican Communist Party. It seems that at that time it was popular to join failed causes, just as it is now, but, well, to each their own. I present her here because I present all those who have contributed something to the history of art…

Gracias…

Cheers…

Lisboa, una de las ciudades más antiguas de la Europa occidental, situada sobre el río Tajo es una autentica belleza. Hay que disfrutarla…

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Lisbon, one of the oldest cities of Western Europe, on the Tagus River, is an authentic beauty that one must enjoy…

GRACIAS – CHEERS

He elegido los cuadros de la ultima etapa pictórica de la gran artista norteamericana Dorothea Tanning para ejemplificar lo que es y hasta donde llega la figuración en el arte plástico. Como ya os he dicho, solo hay dos tipos de arte, el arte figurativo y el arte abstracto y no confundáis esto con los estilos y los movimientos artísticos, pues no son la misma cosa. Acordaos que todo lo que no sea figuración es abstracción en el arte visual. La abstracción no puede contener ningún rasgo de figuración, ni elemento alguno que se asemeje, aunque sea remotamente, a las cosas de la vida, o sea a la naturaleza. La figuración viene de muchas maneras. En estos cuadros que os he elegido como ejemplares, veréis las figuras distorsionadas, y los colores que surgen casi de la nada, pero por muy abstractos que parezcan, los cuadros siguen siendo, por ley y por convenio, arte figurativo.

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I have chosen the paintings from the last pictorial stage of the great North American artist Dorothea Tanning to exemplify what figurative art is and to what extent it reaches. As I have already mentioned, there are only two types of art: figurative art and abstract art. And do not confuse this with artistic styles and movements, as they are not the same thing. Remember that everything that is not figurative is abstract in visual art. Abstract art cannot contain any traits of figuration or any elements that resemble, even remotely, the things of life, meaning «things» found in nature. Figuration comes in many ways. In these paintings I have selected as examples, you will see distorted figures and colours that emerge almost from nothing. But no matter how abstract they may seem, the paintings remain, by law and by convention, figurative art.

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Hay mucho que decir sobre la obra de Dorothea Tanning pues a lo largo de su vida experimentó, buscó y se desarrolló en varios estilos. Os invito a buscar mas sobre esta gran artista.

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And there is much to be said about Dorothea Tanning. Her career took her through several styles of art. I invite you to look further.

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GRACIAS – CHEERS

HASTA EL MISMO SOL

Te miro y no me miras.
Te miro otra vez,
atravesando con mis ojos,
verdes,
limpios,
y que miran al pasado
y lo incorporan al futuro,
tu cuerpo,
invisible,
transparente,
con falta de ánimo,
con falta de sal,
o ¿Quizá tú eres de sal como la mujer de Lot?

Te miro,
pero tú no me verás,
y lo más triste es que sé
que me buscarás un día
y no me encontrarás,
pues el amor dado se acondiciona al amor recibido,
y además el muy cabrón abandona el corazón
si no es correspondido,
de la noche a la mañana
se fuga por las ventanas
tapiadas de la habitación.

Ya sabiendo que eres fría,
vanidosa,
celosa,
envidiosa,
y amante de los pedestales,
te elevaré hasta el mismo sol
y allí te dejaré…

2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera -21 de diciembre de 2024 – Valencia, España

FLOWERS? FLOWERS FOR ME?
(Chapter 1)

Flowers for me dearest lady?

For me who has shunned your love,
your looks, your gentle touch?
Better leave those flowers, lady,
lying on a grave out there
than in my hands that do not care,
and that have never touched your skin.
Or is it that you don’t seem
to adore these precious flowers
and to while away the hours
you now have brought them to me?

C.2024 – Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 25 NOV 2024 – Valencia, España

Where do the northbound trains go when north is east and south is west and north is just a concept to consolidate all those thoughts that go unchallenged by our intellect and supported by our emotions?

Who will stand guard while the wise men sleep?

Why do so many stand at the station, waiting for the train to go northward, if they stand on their heads they are north and south is an illusion…

(C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 28 MAY 2023, Valencia, Spain)

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…

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!

CHEERS…

Que se enteren los políticos…