Flipping… Oh my goodness, this is not just flipping, this is Jet-propelled flipping through the clouds! If someone had told me that a new song by The Beatles would appear at this stage of the game, I would have never imagined it. Incredible! Well, thanks to the technology that the sound engineers managed to invent for the movie Get Back and McCartney’s perseverance, they were able to create this marvellous song, «Now and Then«.
The allowed them to isolate John Lennon’s voice from the piano he was playing when he recorded the demo at his home on a cassette tape. McCartney said in June 2023, «nothing was artificially created or synthesized. Everything is real, and we all played on it. We cleaned up the original recording, and that’s something that has been done for years.»
Well, I think by now everyone knows the story of this song, right? But just in case you didn’t know it, let me tell you… In 1994, Yoko Ono gave two cassette tapes to Paul McCartney and told him that John had recorded some songs back in 1977. Paul got together with Ringo and George, and in 1995 they went into the recording studio, and were able to release two songs from the tape: «Free as a Bird» (1995) and «Real Love» (1996).
The third song, «Now and Then,» couldn’t be recorded because in the original recording, the piano was overpowering John’s voice. George didn’t like it, Ringo might just as well been indifferent, but McCartney didn’t give up. He kept the cassette stored until such time when there would be adequate technology that would allow the separation of the voice from the piano. Then he would do something with it. Meanwhile, George passed away in 2001, but they had the guitar tracks he had had laid down in 1995…
Then in 2021 the much awaited technology arrived…
The Beatles version of «Now and Then«, released to the world on November 2, 2023, features additional lyrics by Paul McCartney, his bass, and his slide guitar solo, as well as George Harrison’s guitar and Ringo Starr’s drums. Additionally, McCartney added strings written by Martin, (son of the legendary Beatles producer George Martin), McCartney and Ben Foster, recorded at Capitol Records. The final touches of the recording were placed at Abbey Road Studios, of course, as it had to be.
«Now and Then» became the final single by The Beatles. The B-side features «Love Me Do«, with a new mix, as it had been the band’s first single in 1962. Thus, we have one more Lennon-McCartney song, and how Ringo and Paul managed to close the incredible and marvellous story of The Beatles with a golden brooch.
(Photo MOTT)
For me, it was like receiving a gift I had been waiting for since 1970 when Let it Be was released. Listening to «Now and Then» was a genuine thrill that made me cry. Waves of happiness and sadness washed over me because I knew that was it, that was the end of the line, the final farewell from those four lads that had brought me so much joy and taught me so much throughout my life, and whose music I listen to every day.
Now watch and listen and tell me what it does to you…
«Now and then I miss you Oh, now and then I want you to be there for me Always to return to me…»
En el otoño del 2003 me invitaron a exponer en una galería de Estambul, (PG ART). Me pilló completamente de sorpresa. La curadora, que estaba de visita por Miami, vino a verme a Omnia Caelum Studios Miami y me dijo que le entregara cinco cuadros para la expo. Yo expondría en conjunto con un artista danés. Yo acepte y me fue muy bien. Aunque no me lo esperaba se vendieron tres de los cinco cuadros. Yo flipando porque no me imaginaba que a los turcos les fuera a gustar mi estilo ni el contenido de mi obra, pero di pie con bola y lo demás es historia…
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In the fall of 2003, I was invited to exhibit at a gallery in Istanbul (PG ART). It caught me completely by surprise. The curator, who was visiting Miami, came to see me at Omnia Caelum Studios Miami and asked me to submit five paintings for the exhibition. I would be exhibiting alongside a Danish artist. I agreed, and it went very well. Although I wasn’t expecting it, three out of the five paintings were sold. I was amazed because I never imagined that Turks would like my style or the content of my work, but I hit the mark and the rest is history…
(«El Chelo»)(«Tres y Jazz»)(«Yellow Sax»)(«La maestra del Jazz»)(«El velero»)(Obras originales de Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados – Original art work by Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)
Pongámonos en contacto, sígueme – Let’s get in touch, follow me
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.
Artista ilustradora romana cuyas obras tienen un gustito a lo clásico pero aliñadas con el pop y con el surrealismo…
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She is an artist and illustrator whose works taste a bit like something classical but seasoned with pop and surrealism…
(Foto/Photo Pinterest)
Daria nació en 1970 en Roma e inició sus estudios de arte en el Instituto Europeo di Design Roma. Entre su haber hay muchos libros infantiles que ha ilustrado. Además Daria ha recibido varios honores incluyendo el de la Accademia Pictor de Turin que se lo han otorgado ya por tres años seguidos, del 2006 al 2008.
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Daria was born in 1970 in Rome and began her art studies at the European Institute of Design in Rome. Among her achievements are many children’s books that she has illustrated. In addition, Daria has received several honours, including the award of the Accademia Pictor of Turin, which she has received for three consecutive years, from 2006 to 2008.
(Foto/Photo Tutt’Art)
Creo que aunque no muy conocida por estos Deus lares hay que darla a conocer…
I believe that although she is not too well known in these lands she should be recognised…
(«Trenave» de/by Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados/All Rights Reserved)
Queridísimos colegas y amigos os pido person si no estoy atendiendo vuestras entradas como de costumbre. Estoy de viajes por mi querida Comunitat Valenciana. Os he dejado programadas entradas en VALENCIARTIST pero quizá no podre leer las vuestras. Muchísimas gracias y regreso pronto si Dios quiere. Agur…
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Dear friends and colleagues, I am so sorry that I have not been able to respond or read your recent blog entries as I am used to doing. I am travelling through parts of my dear Comunitat Valenciana. I have left scheduled entries to VALENCIARTIST but I may not be able to read yours. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding. I should be back, God willing, very soon. See you later my friends!
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