JaZzArt en València

The world fits in a paper cup discarded by the side of a tree

that forms the supposed lungs of the world,

a paper cup that was made from a tree and photographed by a woman…

C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, Valencia, España

NOTA BENE

The Euro-Ku is my idea, and I «invented» the form in February of 2022 while thinking about writing a traditional Haiku and realising that I was not spiritually or culturally equipped to do so. Spirituality in art has everything to do with being contemporary and true to your history and culture. Therefore there was no way that I could transform my mind into the mind of a Japanese poet writing Haikus…

I thought about it and, loving the simplicity and straightforwardness of the Haiku, I came up with a version which would be true to my European/Western thought, spirituality and history, the «Euro-Ku.» It has three stanzas, but without syllabic count restrictions and the verses must flow into each other clearly, not flow off into outer space. The addition is that it must be accompanied by an unedited original image created by the poet. The version for the Americas is the Ameri-Ku, which wonderful poets from the United States have already engaged.

Cheers…

Creo que Churchill tiene toda la razón…

“THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS IS THAT WOULD NEVER ALLOW THE STUPID ONE TO BE THE LEADER.” (Winston Churchill)

«STELLA MOONLIGHT» that you see here is in its acrylic print form and it is now available at Fine Art America through my gallery. This is the only company that I have trusted with my images to create fine art prints of high quality. Fine Art America handles the entire transaction and ships quickly. Check out my gallery often as I change the images frequently to keep things exclusive and fresh.

FRANCISCO BRAVO CABRERA IS BODO VESPACIANO – KEEP IN TOUCH

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OMNIA CAELUM STUDIOS VALENCIA PRESENTS:

Cheers…

Algo debe tener la abstracción con el espiritismo porque resulta que todos los que dicen haber inventado esta forma de pintar o fueron espiritistas o les interesaba mucho. Y no solo me refiero a la que…hasta ahora…pensábamos que había inventado el genero, Hima af Klint (Sueca 1862-1944), pero también a Kandinsky y Piet Mondrian, ambos pioneros del arte abstracto y ambos muy interesados por el espiritismo. Pero resulta que ahora dicen los expertos…ay los expertos…que la verdadera inventora del arte abstracto fue la canaria/británica Georgiana Houghton (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1814-1884). La señora Houghton si era una espiritista. No se le reconoció su trabajo artístico ya que ella no lo promocionaba. Era media unidad y se dedicaba enteramente al espiritismo. Pero los críticos…no fotis els crítics…en 2016 consideraron que esta pintora era, de todas todas, la primera en hacer arte abstracto. Mare meva como cambia la historia. Mañana quizá aparezca otro u otra pintora de la historia que anterior a esta ya estaba haciendo abstracción y hasta dedicándosela a las deidades o a los fantasmas, qui sap…

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There must be some connection between abstract art and spiritualism because it turns out that all those who claim to have invented this form of painting were either spiritualists or were greatly interested in it. And I’m not just referring to the one… until now… we thought had invented the genre, Hilma af Klint (Swedish 1862-1944), but also to Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian, both pioneers of abstract art and both very interested in spiritualism. But now experts say… oh, the experts… that the true inventor of abstract art was the Canarian/British artist Georgiana Houghton (née Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 1814-1884). Mrs. Houghton was indeed a spiritualist. Her artistic work went unrecognized as she didn’t promote it. She was fully devoted to spiritualism. But the critics…oh them critics… in 2016 recognized her as the first artist to create abstract art. Oh, how history changes. Tomorrow, another artist may emerge who was already creating abstraction even before her and dedicating it to deities or ghosts, who knows...

Bueno… Ya ayer se reconstituyeron las cortes pero todavía no hay acuerdos para la investidura del Primer Ministro, o sea, el presidente del gobierno español… Su Majestad el Rey Felipe VI se reunirá con los partidos politicos, claro los catalanes y los vascos no irán… El PP le pasó cuchillo a Vox y Vox no respaldó a Cuca Gamarra para la presidencia de la cámara baja… Y parece que todo este revolú politico, le está viniendo muy bien a un politico prófugo de la justicia que en otrora fue president de Catalunya… Todo apunta a que otra vez vamos a vivir en una democracia gobernada por los partidos minoritarios, regionalistas y nacionalistas y la voluntad del pueblo español no la consideran ni de coña aquellos que aspiran a gobernar… Que se hable catalá, euskera y galego en el parlamento, bueno a mi no me desagrada, pero protesto porque no incluyeron al valenciá, ni al bable ni al aragoné ni mucho menos al andalú, entonces esto es una desfachatez y un descaro y más, discriminación!

I must say that I have never lived in the country. I was born in a city and have always lived in cities, rather large ones at that. However, due to circumstances beyond my control, I did have to spend quite a lengthy time in the country, climbing mountains, following dark trails, wading through jungles and swamps and I think the spirit of the country, of the wilderness, of untamed nature did leave its mark on me. Now the country fascinates me…

A Sea Above Us

There are no words that can describe the things around us,

perhaps it’s best if we just look and point at them.

The sky is not the sky but a sea above us.

The clouds are jellyfish that roam and float

upon the foam of other beings that frolic vibrantly

upon the clouds of wonder far above.

And what are we?

We’re just the fish who live way in the bottom.

Yes, we, who think we are the measure of it all.

We’re only made to reach a certain level

and we don’t travel higher,

we will never fly

for fear we’ll fall…

C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 17 AUG 2023, Valencia, España

Abstract wine, you sip sideways on days when you’ve not frowned a mouth,

flows like a mountain trail upstream to heights unknown,

and then the careful taste, the smell, the colours reach your eyes, your nose, your ears, and then your light has shone.

C.2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 01 MAR 2022, Valencia, Spain

Nota Bene:

You may recall that I introduced the «EURO-KU», a style that I have developed recently. It is an homage to the traditional Japanese Haiku, but done with a Western, European mind and focusing on our culture, our background and our way of telling stories, writing poetry, expressing thoughts. To create a «Euro-Ku» you must start with an original, unedited, image and then you must use it to write three lines of poetry. The verses (3) can be as long as you want them, but they must tie in together to form a coherent and plainly evident whole, and the language used, as well as the words, must be pedestrian and play out as do the lyrics to a pop song.

See: https://paintinginvalencia.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/my-new-poetic-invention-the-euro-ku/

LET’S STAY IN TOUCH:

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YouTube: https://www.YouTube.com/@FranciscoBravoCabrera

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Twitter (X): @euskadi_bakero

Artist Representative: “By Guloshka”

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E-Mail: guloshka404@gmail.com

Cheers…

(Francisco Bravo Cabrera, Valencia, 13 de marzo de 2023, escuchando Ludovico Einaudi) Hace cuatro años, cuando al fin regresé a España, y andando por…

A PACO (WP MAR 2023) by Francisco Bravo Cabrera

El agua llega hasta el cielo y su sonido no calla,

Pero respiro perfectamente con mis agallas,

y el mundo gira más lento si pasas de lo que fuiste aunque ahora no seas nada…

C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 27 de junio de 2023, València, España

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¿QUE ES UN EURO-KU?

Venga, el año pasado, precisamente el 2 de febrero (2022), escribí el primer Euro-Ku de la historia. ¿Porque? Vale, os cuento…

Siempre me han encantado los Haiku pero nunca logré escribir uno que realmente le hiciera honor a esa forma tan espiritual y efímera, y no entendía porque. Al fin me di cuenta que para escribir un Haiku hace falta más que talento literario, inspiración o faena. Hace falta ser japonés. Hace falta vivir las experiencias que vive un oriental y tener su historia. Como no lo soy no importa lo mucho que me lo curre, jamás lograré escribir un Haiku.

Y pensándolo bien, yo no nací en el occidente para vivir la vida de un oriental. Así que me puse a desarrollar algo que mantuviera la esencia del Haiku pero que le pudiera yo instalar mi espiritualidad. O sea la espiritualidad que se le da a una obra de arte cuando vibra por su contemporaneidad y por ser parte de la misma cultura que me lo ha hecho a uno.

Inventé el Euro-Ku. Tiene los mismos tres versos del Haiku japonés, pero sin limitación de silabas y sin que fluyan las palabras hacia el espacio, sino que los versos se encuentren entre si y sigan un hilo lógico y entendible, coherentemente. Pero la cosa más importante y diferente, es que tiene que estar acompañado de una imagen inédita. Puede ser una pintura, un dibujo o una fotografía, pero hecha por el propio autor.

Edited by Nolcha Fox, Gobblers & Masticadores is a beautiful magazine full of poetry and love… I am so proud to be part of the line-up.

Feeling the strength of the murmurs that surround me,
the whispers that astound me,
the voices that flow near me,
the song that renews itself from time to time…

We live on the bottom and there’s a sea above us,
In the infinite space we call the sky,
that some call heaven,
as we listen to the song that renews itself from time to time…

Above the clouds that float so far above our tiny eyes,
are creatures we spot from time to time,
they smell our hope and smell our fear,
they laugh at our abundant tears
that amuse them as they sing the song
that renews itself from time to time…

C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 16 JUN 2023, Valencia, España