#art, ¿La abstracción existe?

(“Los Blues” de Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados)

En el arte hay solo dos formas de pintar o esculpir: de forma figurativa o abstracta. La figurativa se entiende bien, pues la composición la reconoces de una forma o de otra. Todo lo demás es abstracción, pues la abstracción no puede contener nada identificable como algo que pertenece al mundo en que vivimos.

Pero… Todo proviene de algo, no hay cosa que exista en un estado perenne de abstracción. Así que os pregunto ¿Existe la abstracción?

Cuento con vosotros para saber la respuesta…

#poem, “Pretending to Forget”

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I’ve been that grain of sand beneath a seagull’s black beak,

that held the tide from swallowing the beach.

I’ve been the single rock that children’s hands couldn’t reach,

that ocean’s bathed

with tides

on days

when lonely spirits dreamed of love…

I thought I had accomplished all that I came to do,

and I would be returned to where I lived,

but time has passed,

a million days,

I’ve been forgotten,

why such delay?

When lonely spirits dreamt of peace…

You might not recognise me if you see me again,

I will no longer be the one I was.

The salty shores,

the brilliant sun,

the thought of being so far from home…

I’ve done all I was asked to do, my mission’s success,

has surely been recorded and well known,

but still I linger here,

no hand has come for me yet,

perhaps I’m meant to walk these lands

pretending to forget…

C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 22 JUL 2023, València, España.

#art, Jazz has the Spirit of America!

(“Piano azul” by Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)

The spirit of freedom, of improvising, growing, developing and building with folk from the world over!

#art, Things Are New Here! OCS Valencia

(Somewhere in Europe/All Rights Reserved)

Art never stops, so an artist cannot either. One must be engaged in the «search» if not one cannot find. I usually find… Here are some new things I have been working on. Hope you like them.

(2023)

Cheers…