JaZzArt en València

Here is the metal print of this, one of my surreal-expressionist Jazz Art images. It is now available, through Fine Art America, as a fine art print, affordable and quite nice. There are other types of prints and other things as well. Check out my gallery at Fine Art America. This company handles the sale and quickly ships to you.

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Todas las imágenes estas reflejan partes de cuadros, pero por si solas se convierten en composiciones completas…

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All of these images reflect parts of paintings, but by themselves they turn into complete compositions…

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I always thought that artists (painters and sculptors) only had to display their works and with that they said it all. However, as you can see, here we are talking away, theorising and explaining. Art History (as an academic course) has become too long and too coarse. It collects, like a rubbish bag, everything that they throw into it. Styles of art are mostly defined by critics, «professors,» and journalists supposedly specialised in writing about art. I will tell you what I think of each of those groups.

First the art critics. To this group I give very little value and very little time. I can do without them and I wipe my nose with their critiques. We all know how to judge and how to determine what we like or don’t like, so we do not need a parrot to tell us what is good or not or to guide us. Second, the supposed teachers or professors. Well, this group is seemingly very important because they are to teach art students and guide them towards becoming artists. But they lose all their value when, in place of teaching the fundamentals, they serve as advocates for their own favourite style or artists. This creates students that really do not know much about making art, losing sight of the fundamentals of painting, sculpture, lithography or ceramics.

The art journalists, or those who write about art. Being those that tell us about openings, dates, times, the artist or artists involved. They are good for that, to help us fill in dates in our calendars to go see an exhibition, or not. But they go further, they promote those they like, or those that seem to be in the present «vanguard» and ignore the rest like the plague. Most of these «journalists» are frustrated or failed artists themselves. They probably failed because they did not work hard enough or dedicate enough time. Art requires hard work, and talent is only developed through sweat, effort and time. One is not born with talent, one develops it if one is interested in what they are doing. So I really do not have many good things to say about those who only write about those in the current mix (or those who pay them). Great journalism I’d say!

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In police circles, in criminal law and in society the term has always been DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and it has always been defined as violence perpetrated by someone known to the victim, regardless of his/her relationship to the victim. Brother on brother, Mother on children, spouse on spouse, even friends and neighbours would fall into the definition of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Domestic violence is what the name describes. I spent thirty years dealing with this during my time in the Miami-Dade Police Department.

But now these anti-male, demasculinisers of the new and modern feminist (which in no way has anything to do with real feminism) have come up with a real discriminating, man-hating term called «gender violence.» With this they imply that «something» in the male gender makes them violent towards women! Incredible! And what is worse, in some countries, especially in the European Union, they have actually made laws citing gender violence!

The reality is that all humans (male and female, and as far as I know there are only two genders) are prone to violence. That is why now in so many countries men and women go to war as combatant soldiers. So there is no validity, at least not in Biology, to this idea that the male gender is prone to violence towards the female gender. Many more mothers murder their children than do fathers.

So get over it! Enough with this stupid idea of political correctness! Things should be correct and peace should reign supreme among men (and men means women too) and violence should end, now!

CHEERS – CHEERS – CHEERS

Nació en Riga, Letonia en 1938, esta artista letona-americana vive y trabaja en Nueva York. Se le conoce por sus paisajes ultra-realistas (foto-realismo) de ciertos aspectos de la naturaleza, como el océano, las telarañas, las noches estrelladas y otras cosas parecidas. Ha tenido mas de cuarenta exposiciones importantísimas en lugares como el MoMA (Museo de Arte Moderna), Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts of London and Centre Pompidou of Paris.

Durante la década de los 1960 vivió en California donde, bajo la influencia de artistas como Jasper Johns y Malcolm Morley, comenzó a pintar cuadros foto-realistas, monocromáticos y todos reproducidos de fotografías. Luego, en la década de los 1970 abandonó la pintura y se dedicó a hacer dibujos al carboncillo y grafito, igual, foto-realistas. Durante estos años dijo estar influenciada por la obra del italiano Giorgio Morandi.

Su trabajo pictórico cambió después de la década de 1980 cuando empezó a hacer obras al oleo y carboncillo de las constelaciones, las estrellas, las olas del mar y telarañas a las cuales se les nota una superficie de gran luminosidad. Todas basadas, según ella misma, en fotografías. En 2008 expuso, en la galería McKee Gallery (Nueva York, que cerró en 2015), las series de laminas que hizo de sus paisajes marinos, incluyendo las olas del mar, y sus famosas telarañas, también, por supuesto, las estrellas.

Vija Celmins vive, desde 1981, en Manhattan donde tiene su piso en la Calle Crosby de Soho y trabaja en su atelier en Sag Harbor (Long Island, Nueva York). Durante la década de los 1980 fue profesora de arte en Yale University School of Art y en Cooper Union. A Vija Celmins la representa la Matthew Marks Gallery de Nueva York.

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She was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938. This Latvian-American artist lives and works in New York. She is known for her ultra-realistic landscapes (photorealism) of certain aspects of nature, such as the ocean, spiderwebs, starry nights, and other similar things. She has had over forty major exhibitions in places like the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts of London, and Centre Pompidou of Paris.

During the 1960s, she lived in California where, under the influence of artists like Jasper Johns and Malcolm Morley, she began painting photo-realistic, monochromatic pictures all reproduced from photographs. Then, in the 1970s, Celmins abandoned painting and dedicated herself to creating charcoal and graphite drawings, still in the photo-realistic style. During these years, she claimed to be influenced by the work of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi.

Her pictorial work changed after the 1980s when she began to create oil and charcoal paintings of constellations, stars, ocean waves, and spiderwebs with a luminous surface. All based, according to herself, on photographs. In 2008, she exhibited, at the McKee Gallery in New York (which closed in 2015), a series of prints she made of her seascapes, including ocean waves, her famous spiderwebs, and of course, the stars.

Vija Celmins has been living in Manhattan since 1981, where she has her apartment on Crosby Street in Soho and works in her studio in Sag Harbor (Long Island, New York). During the 1980s, she was an art professor at Yale University School of Art and at The Cooper Union. Vija Celmins is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.

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Os urjo que busquéis mas de las obras de esta extraordinaria pintora…

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I would urge you to look for more of the artwork of this extraordinary painter…

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A great summer spot, but go in early or late summer…

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La luz es el elemento esencial que nos permite ver todo en el universo, el movimiento es señal de vida, de crecimiento, y la intención la pongo yo cuando estoy pintando, guiando y desarrollando una idea a través de un cuadro. Ese es mi trabajo aquí en Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia…

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Light is the essential element that allows us to see everything in the universe. Movement is a sign of life, a definite indication of growth. And I put intention into it when I am painting, guiding and developing an idea through a painting. That is my job here at Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia…

Gracias…

Cheers…

El gran pintor manchego es, en mi opinion, el mas grande de España de estos tiempos. Dicen que es hiper-realista, pero yo lo veo como un artista figurativo completo. Un artista que sabe crear un halo de filosofía, erudición, misticismo y emociones en sus cuadros. Sabe respetar la historia del arte, a los artistas, a las grandes obras. Sabe reconocer la grandeza de aquellos artistas extranjeros que han trabajado con gran libertad, como Lucian Freud y Francis Bacon. Estos dos grandes del arte universal, pero muy británicos (aunque ninguno de los dos nació en el seno del Reino Unido), son dos de mis preferidos por sus grandes obras y también por el pueblo, la cultura y la idiosincrasia que siempre los apoyó.

Antonio López nació en la municipalidad de Tomelloso, Castilla La Mancha en 1936. Estudió en la Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando habiéndose trasladado a Madrid en 1949. Allí estuvo compartiendo faena estudiantil con una gran artista española, Amalia Avia Peña (a quien vamos a presentar en un próximo capitulo de la serie de mujeres artistas de este blog). Antonio formó parte de la llamada «Escuela Madrileña,» y en 1955 recibe una beca para viajar a Italia para empaparse bien de la pintura del renacimiento italiano y conocer de cerca las obras clásicas.

Antonio goza de una larga vida colmada de éxitos en la pintura y muchos reconocimientos. No voy a hacer un recuento extensivo, pero creo importante mencionar estos últimos:

• 1985: Recibe el Premio Principe de Asturias de las Artes

• 2008: El Museo de Bellas Artes de Boston (US) le dedica una exposicion monografica.
• 2008: Su obra «Madrid desde Torres Blancas» se subasta en Christie’s of London por mas de dos millones de euros, siendo esta la mayor cantidad pagada…hasta el momento…por una obra de un artista español vivo.
• 2011: El Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza y el Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao le hacen exposiciones de todas sus obras con énfasis en las de su ultima época.
• 2014: La presentación de su gran cuadro «La Familia de Juan Carlos I»

Os dejo estas dos imágenes porque me interesaría que la búsqueda os lleve a encontrar mas y mas de este gran pintor español y por supuesto, si tenéis la oportunidad de visitar una exposición, no os la pierdan…

Gracias y espero vuestros comentarios…

En 2007 y 2008 una galería de Miami (Red Bar Gallery) llevó mis cuadros y los expuso en Art Basel Miami Beach. Expusieron una serie de cuadros que había pintado basándome en el tema del carnaval. Ya están todos tranquilos y felices formando parte de colecciones privadas en EEUU y Europa. Pero la idea del carnaval, de sus colores, de la intención urbana de tal cosa no se me ha ido de la cabeza y por eso decidí revivir la serie con esta pieza, «Carnaval No. 7». Yo siempre he pensado que la vida es un cabaret pero he llegado a pensar que entonces los sueños son un carnaval. Sigamos soñando…

GRACIAS – GRACIAS – GRACIAS