JaZzArt en València

Flowers for me?
Lovely lady, flowers?

They come from lands
that seem dark, forgotten, ominous,
where not a single rose blooms,
where birds have lost their melodies,
where the sea rips through the sand
and these you place in my hands,
in my lapel?
Them I’ll treasure
one brief moment,
for I firmly do believe
you have a hatred of flowers,
these flowers you give to me.

She was born in Germany (1877), a painter and photographer, she formed part of the Blue Rider group (Der Blaue Reiter) created by Kandinsky in 1911… She would have wanted to study at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Munich Academy), but at the time it was not open to women artists so she studied at an art school for women… From 1903 she lived with Kandinsky (although he remained married until 1911). She lived in the Das Münter-Haus in Murnau with Kandinsky and there had many meetings with all the avant-guarde artists of the time and where she played an important role in the creation of the Blue Rider group.

Artistically she developed her own abstract style with brilliant, unmixed colours and powerful lines and geometric forms all separated by a thick, black line. She was a founding member of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (New Union of Artists of Munich) which was started by Kandinsky and included the most important members of Der Blaue Reiter.

Now let us take a look at her work…

As you can clearly see Gabriele was not an abstract painter at all, at least not if judged by these paintings you see here. No matter how much abstract is in some of these canvases, they are all figurative.

CHEERS

LOVE IS BOURGEOIS

Love is bourgeois…
And happiness acts like a crazy bird
that flies solo thorough the clouds
sometimes making them to rain.

Nostalgia?
Nothing more than a mediocre pretension.
It pierces you with a knife,
stomps on your withered heart,
causing bad days and infections…

The rich eat the lazy…
The masses eat the lame…
But my teeth are sharp and I am thirsty,
and I’ve grown tired of this game.
I’ve cleaned up the wine stains,
cauterised the wound,
why should I then fall so disgraced?

Dinner time and we’re not hungry,
We’re sitting at the bar till it’s quite late,
glancing at friends that pass us by,
speaking little as we try,
to listen?
Not at all…
We’re ready and waiting for the fall…

Love is bourgeois…
Anger religious…
Forgiveness is a way of life,
with rounded edges like a dull, old knife,
which imitates the pain of holy sacrifice,
challenging our inhibitions.
and threatening us with lies.

(C.2021, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 05 JAN 2021, Valencia, Spain)

A mi me preocupan y me son muy sospechosos los que proclaman que tienen la verdad y luego se la meten por las narices al pueblo…

Siempre tiene que haber algo nuevo. El arte nunca se puede detener y además el pintor se tiene que redimir con cada cuadro que haga. Por eso digo que el arte es la búsqueda Este cuadro es uno de los que terminé al final del verano (2024) y está hecho en mi estilo el surreal-expresionismo. Lo que busco es captar, de alguna manera, la intensidad, la energía, el movimiento y los colores que se le presentan a los que van a ver un trio de jazz en un sótano cualquiera de nuestra ciudad. Los colores, cuando juegan con y entre las luces de un escenario (por muy pequeño que sea), se mueven ante nuestra vista. Tambien hay que recordar que no estamos siempre viendo la misma cosa. Los músicos se mueven y un gran movimiento conlleva mil micro-movimientos que no notamos pero que son los que crean la nueva posición que adquieren… Así es el jazz, así son mis cuadros.

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Got to have something new. Art never stops, and the painter must redeem himself with every painting he creates. That’s why I say that art is the search. This painting is one of those I finished at the end of summer (2024) and is done in my style of surreal-expressionism. What I seek is to capture, in some way, the intensity, energy, movement, and colours that present themselves to the eyes of those who go see/listen to a jazz trio perhaps in in any basement club in the city. Colours, when they are reflected in and with the stage lights (no matter how small the stage may be), move before our eyes. It is also important to remember that we are not always seeing the same thing. The musicians move, and a large movement implies a thousand micro-movements that we don’t notice but they are what creates the new position the players have acquired… Such is jazz, such are my paintings.

GRACIAS – CHEERS

She was born in Germany (1877), a painter and photographer, she formed part of the Blue Rider group (Der Blaue Reiter) created by Kandinsky in 1911… She would have wanted to study at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Munich Academy), but at the time it was not open to women artists so she studied at an art school for women… From 1903 she lived with Kandinsky (although he remained married until 1911). She lived in the Das Münter-Haus in Murnau with Kandinsky and there had many meetings with all the avant-guarde artists of the time and where she played an important role in the creation of the Blue Rider group.

Artistically she developed her own abstract style with brilliant, unmixed colours and powerful lines and geometric forms all separated by a thick, black line. She was a founding member of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (New Union of Artists of Munich) which was started by Kandinsky and included the most important members of Der Blaue Reiter.

Now let us take a look at her work…

As you can clearly see Gabriele was not an abstract painter at all, at least not if judged by these paintings you see here. No matter how much abstract is in some of these canvases, they are all figurative.

CHEERS

I sincerely, and from the bottom of my heart thank Michelle and Hotel Masticadores for this very interesting nomination. And I applaud all the other nominees.

BLACK AND WHITE RAINBOWS by Francisco Bravo Cabrera

NOSCE TE IPSUM by Francisco Bravo Cabrera