JaZzArt en València

“El que no afana es un gil*” by Francisco Bravo Cabrera

Nos pasamos la vida complicando nuestra existencia cuando la simplicidad es la clave del éxito.

Aún en vías de desarrollo pero el cuadro me está hablando… Creo que estará listo para incorporarse a la exposición de octubre…

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“THE MEDICAL VERSES PART THREE” by Francisco Bravo Cabrera

Esto es una de las gran verdades de la vida… Y posiblemente estemos rodeados de tontos encadenados a sus ideologías…

“It is very difficult to free idiots from the chains they venerate”

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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Cheers…

Bueno, si lo crees, escucha bien lo que tienen que decir los Red Hot Chili Peppers… Tremenda banda, tremendo bajista (yo también soy bajista, venga, y lo admiro) y una canción, «Californication» de puta madre…. En ella desglosan toda la mierda que se oculta bajo la supuesta sociedad «progresista» y «elitista» de socialistas etcetera…

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Well, if you believe it, listen carefully to what the Red Hot Chili Peppers have to say… Amazing band, amazing bassist (I’m a bassist too, by the way, and I admire him) and a kick-ass song, «Californication«…. In it, they break down all the bullshit hidden beneath the so-called «progressive» and «elitist» society of socialists, etcetera…

CALIFORNICATION

Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind’s elation
And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want these kind of dreams it’s Californication

It’s the edge of the world and all of Western civilization
The sun may rise in the East at least it’s settled in a final location
It’s understood that Hollywood sells Californication

Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin, is this your chin, or is that war you’re waging?

First born unicorn
Hardcore soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

Marry me, girl, be my fairy to the world, be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard, it’s Californication

Space may be the final frontier but it’s made in a Hollywood basement
And Cobain can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station To Station?
And Alderaan’s not far away, it’s Californication

Born and raised by those who praise control of population
Well, everybody’s been there and I don’t mean on vacation

First born unicorn
Hardcore soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

Destruction leads to a very rough road but it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl’s guitar, they’re just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn’t save the world from Californication

Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest, there is no test, but this is what you’re craving?

First born unicorn
Hardcore soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Anthony Kiedis / Chad Gaylord Smith / John Anthony Frusciante / Michael Peter Balzary

Californication lyrics © MoeBeToBlame, Peermusic Publishing, Words & Music A Div Of Big Deal Music LLC

In part one I presented to you three of my favourite rock and roll songs played by three of my favourite rock and rollers. Here in part two I bring you some of the songs I cannot quite place in the same category, but that are outstanding in many ways.

1. «God Only Knows» is the song that Paul McCartney fell in love with and inspired him to go forwards with the Sgt. Pepper’s project. He also considers it his favourite song, as well as the best song ever written, and so does Jimmy Webb, among many other rock and pop artists. The song was written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher for the Beach Boys’ 1966 album Pet Sounds.

2. «Save Your Heart For Me» by Gary Lewis (son of the comic genius Jerry Lewis, whom we love! We love you Jerry!!!) and The Playboys is one of their hits from 1965. Ok, some, or maybe many, will think this is just another silly love song, but I think it is a fab representative of the music, the lifestyle and the rhythm of the times. Of course I was just a wee lad at the time and I remember learning the words to this song as a way of learning to speak English…

3. «Kicks» was a 1966 hit by Paul Revere and The Raiders. I also remember this one from my very young years but I was never able to sing along, and I always thought they sang «kids» instead of kicks… Written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, the song was originally meant for the English rock group The Animals, but Eric Burden turned it down. I don’t know, there’s something about this song that makes me not really want to place it as a genuine «rock» song…

I am really hoping to hear what you think about these songs, bloody hell, if you even remember them or know them. Well, if you don’t listen to them over and over again and if someone asks you why, tell them they’re part of your doctoral thesis on proctology…

Cheers…

I wonder who remembers this 1969 hit by The Tee Set from Holland… It might be a happy memory for some or something new for others, but it is a nice song with a catchy tune for all…

Merci, merci…

These three songs are great, for sure, and I know they are pop songs, and hits in their day, but I really don’t know in what category I can place them in…

1. «Build Me Up Buttercup» Written by Mike d’Abo and Tony Macaulay, a smash hit by the British group The Foundations. Although they called themselves a «soul» group, I really don’t know if it is soul or what…

2. The next song is from an American pop group, Spiral Staircase, and titled «More Today Than Yesterday» released in 1969. It’s soulful too, but I just can’t call it soul…

3. The last one is «Vehicle» released in 1970 by the American group The Ides of March. I know the band calls itself a rock-jazz band, and they are jazzy and certainly rock, but what are they…

Take a listen, I am sure they will take you down memory lane (for some) and for others they will be fresh and new. And they do sound fresh and new…

Cheers…