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Se salvaron los estúpidos.  (Comenzado hoy, miércoles 7 de febrero 2024 escuchando a Zoot Sims) Sin dudas es el peor “virus” que azota a la humanidad…

AHORA LA ESTUPIDEZ ES UN VIRUS… by Francisco Bravo Cabrera

Omnia Caelum Studios started in Miami, Florida, June of 2003. That year I exhibited professionally for the first time in a gallery in Istanbul, Turkey. I did not think my paintings would go too far and I knew nothing about Turkey or about their culture. Much less did I know about their likes and dislikes when it came to choosing or collecting paintings. All I knew was that I would be a foreign artist, a European artist coming from the United States who painted bright, colourful scenes of jazz, dancers, movement and bodies, many bodies… But the show went very, very good for me. I sold three paintings out of the five I exhibited and it helped me to establish my presence overseas.

I came back to Miami (my home base at the time) and I started working on a new project. I chose Manhattan. Of course, New York, exhibiting in the Big Apple is obviously the dream of many artists and I was a dreamer. So I headed off north on the Interstate 95 in my Jeep Cherokee with ten paintings, the largest ones I had painted at the time. I had negotiated a contract with a gallery in Brooklyn which was also owned by a Turk, and I had been given a one moth show. The show went well but I did not sell…

So I stayed in New York. I moved my show to SoHo to a gallery called Amsterdam-Whitney and I exhibited there for 15 days. The vernissage was an authentic blast. One of the artists, it was a mixed show, was the wife of actor Christopher Walken and he was at the opening. One of the other guests was the «Prince of Darkness» a rather intriguing character who dressed like an English Lord but with a kilt. I kept looking at him wondering if it was true, that he really was a vampire. I sold one large and very expensive painting during that show, but it helped me establish my presence and I met many people.

I had a third New York exhibition in that year at the New World Gallery, also in SoHo. I only exhibited four large paintings but I did sell one of them…

In any event my experiences abroad gave me many ideas and when I returned to Miami I set my eyes on the developing local scene. This landed me a spot at the coveted «Cultural Fridays» events sponsored by the city of Miami. I presented my work and was selected artist of the month (October) in 2005. That year I searched and found new ways to express my painting and digital work…

Little by little, at times and with giant steps other times, the perfect combination of fast and slow, I started to develop my talent, (through hard work) and my abilities to create. I started to make something of my university education. I recall one of my professors who said that now that we were graduating we should forget all the academic learning and just go out there and create. I took that to heart…

I have to say that life as a working artist for me has been (and certainly still is) a rewarding endeavour and a lot of fun. And one of the best perks is travelling and sailing…

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A black and white drawing expresses the same as a painting g, in fact it is a painting but with less elements, as Matisse said…

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Un buen consejo…

Un buen consejo…

Girona, together with Barcelona and Tarragona, makes up the great Catalonian triangle, of course the fourth is Lleida…

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Benidorm is one of the most beautiful cities on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It is in Comunitat Valenciana and in the province of Alicante. A most wonderful place for a summer holiday. Benidorm is very close to Alicante Airport, the city of Alicante and not really too far from Valencia. So Benidorm also offers plenty of nearby places to visit…

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I’ve talked a lot about abstract art but art has to be appreciated (or despised) by its presence before your eyes…

Not all these are abstracts, can you identify which is what?

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Venga, pero estas faltas al respeto, estas faltas de disciplina, de etica, de urbanismo, mare meua, ¿Hasta cuando? Y ¿Qué hacen las autoridaes francesas? Pues nada…

Unos delincuentes de un grupúsculo llamado Riposte Alimentaire (Respuesta Alimentaria) se han atrevido a entrar al Louvre con latas de sopa y luego lanzárselas a la Mona Lisa gritando que es mas importante la comida que el arte (o alguna estupidez así). No quiero darle propaganda a estos actos delictivos de vandalismo y hasta de terrorismo (diría yo), pero esto tiene tela…

Estas estupideces no son protestas ni la cabeza de un guanajo, son actos de vandalismo y a los que lo hacen hay que llamarles delincuentes no activistas. Parece que hoy en dia todos se creen con muchos derechos, pero derechos para destruir y no para crear. Y poco les importan los deberes.

Si a esta gente se le llama por el nombre que realmente se merecen, pillos, y no se le diera tanta noticia, dejarían de hacer estos actos de vandalismo. Pero yo voy mas allá y digo que deberían de ser detenidos y acusados de altos crímenes y lanzados a un calabozo por unos largos meses para ver si la van a liar entre la población carcelaria estos pijos bitongos…

El arte se respeta. Iros a lanzarle sopa a vuestra abuela y además hay muchos hambrientos por ahi que les hubiera gustado mucho mejor tomarse esa sopa. Aprended que la comida no se desprecia. Hipócritas

Happy and blessed Sunday my dear friends and poets. It’s the weekend before Valentine’s Day and we had some really amazing love poems on Hotel …

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