JaZzArt en València

A flower is God’s painting the world around us, the Earth that is still beneath our feet giving us a sense of being and belonging…

CHEERS

Abstract me… Don’t let me know your secret reference, let me find it through your colours, through your lines…

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En sus vetustas paredes hay fantasmas atrapados que liberas con tu sonrisa,

pero ¿Quien te libera a ti de los fantasmas que te acechan?

Quizá caminaras por el fondo de los lagos verdes de tu ignorancia hasta el día que al fin subas a respirar…

C.2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 26/09/2022, València, España 🇪🇸

San Bartolomé, apóstol de Jesús y testigo de la ascensión de Jesús. Bartolomé fue desollado vivo por el rey de Armenia. Su fiesta la celebra la Iglesia catolica el 24 de agosto. Esta imagen, esculpida por Marco D’Agrate en 1562, se encuentra en la catedral de Milán. Eso que el santo lleva alrededor de sus hombros no es un manto, es su piel…

Saint Bartholomew was an apostle of Jesus and as well a witness to his ascension into heaven. He died a martyr in Armenia when the king ordered that he be tortured and flayed. The above sculpture was done by Marco D’Agrate in 1562. It stands in the Cathedral of Milan. And what you see around the Saint’s shoulders is not a tunic, it is his skin…

GRACIAS – CHEERS

To one who saved my life one day,
from somewhere close, but far away,

with care and thought and expert skill,

one shot one kill

18 NOV 2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, Valencia, España
(photo by Myra, US Collaborator, Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia/All Rights Reserved)

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An Euro-Ku is what I call a Haiku done by a Westerner with a Western mentality but recognising and utilising the Eastern form of poetry and philosophical expression. In other words, adapting it to our way of thinking.

The Euro-Ku, as well as the Ameri-Ku (same idea but with an American mentality), must also contain three lines, however they can be as long as the writer needs or wants them to be. One important difference is that they must tell a clear, and simple story or complete thought. They must paint the picture with words clearly and with a fluid form of expression. Objectivity is the ideal here. Lastly, it must include a photograph or picture, original or done by someone who has ceded their rights to you that somehow, directly or indirectly refers to the text of the three lines.

That is basically it. The rules of the Euro-Ku and I invite anyone to try it. You poets out there might like it. It is something different and poetry, like all other art forms, is the search…

(FBC, Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia)

Debo confesar que no conozco a esta pintora española, nacida en 1904 en Madrid. Pero bueno, os la presento porque me parece importante para la historia del arte y además es una de esas pintoras un tanto olvidadas o ignoradas por los nuevos «expertos» (madre mía los expertos!). Fue pintora figurativa de la Sociedad de Artistas Ibéricos y también partidaria del movimiento Nueva objetividad, un movimiento artístico alemán que rechazaba el expresionismo y que fue derrumbado por los Nazis en 1933. Rosario pertenece a la generación de las Sinsombrero (grupo de mujeres artistas españolas) de 1927. Pues, venga, aqui algunas de sus obras…

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I must confess that I do not know much about this Spanish painter, born in 1904 in Madrid. But, well, I present her to you because I think she is important in Art History and she is also one of those somewhat forgotten or ignored female painters by the new «experts» (good grief the experts!). She was a figurative painter of the Society of Iberian Artists and also a proponent of the New Objectivity movement, a German artistic movement that rejected expressionism that was dismantled by the Nazis in 1933. Rosario belongs to the generation of the Sinsombrero (a group of Spanish women artists) from 1927. So, here are some of her works…

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GRACIAS – CHEERS

A wonderful country which I visit as often as I can…

CHEERS

Siempre lo he dicho, el arte es buscar, buscar tema, buscar soluciones, buscar la mejor manera de transmitir ideas, buscar el tamaño preciso, la composición perfecta, los colores que le den vida, y buscar, buscar, ad nauseam. Pero tío, si no encuentras no ha hecho nada.

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Valencia es una ciudad muy especial. Todos los días hay una energía atractiva que nos carga de creatividad y cosas buenas… Me encanta caminar por las calles, no solo de mi barrio, sino de todo la ciudad. Cada sección tiene su sabor único (como en tu ciudad, supongo) pero aquí somos bendecidos con sol (la mayor parte del año) e inviernos bastante suaves… En cualquier caso, di un paseo hoy (como de costumbre) y aquí está lo que vi después de desayunar en mi lugar favorito…

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Valencia is a very special city. Everyday there is some kind of appealing energy that charges us with creativity and with good things… I love to walk through the streets, not only of my neighbourhood, but everywhere in the city. Each section has its unique flavour (like in your city, I reckon) but here we are blessed with sunshine (most of the year) and rather mild winters… In any event, I took a walk today (as usual) and here is what I saw after I had breakfast at my favourite place…

CHEERS

If I stood alone, away from all distractions and focused only on one minuscule attraction,

a blu-green butterfly, let’s say,

would thoughts come easy?

C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 18 JUL 2023, València, España