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So we are so sophisticated and so civilised because we are Homo Sapiens? Bollocks! We’d be happier, freer, more peaceful and charming if we were swinging from the trees eating bananas all day… Well, at least that’s what Ray Davies says in «Apeman» a phenomenal song from the Kinks’ 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One.

«Apeman» was released in 1970, and although it did not do so great in the US, it did become a major hit in the UK. Some may think the references and even the way Davies sang the song may not be politically correct in these days of the new puritanism where everything has to be sanitised, but I say who cares, I am not a politician and I don’t have to act, think, or belief in any of the things that the Pharisees of our time think is proper.

«I’m an apeman, I’m an ape-ape man, oh I’m an apeman! I’m a King-Kong man, I’m a voodoo man, oh I’m an apeman, I’ll be your Tarzan and you be my Jane, we’ll sit in the trees and eat bananas all day, just like an apeman.»

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Pablo Picasso, genius of art, genius of the XXth C. that opened art to distinct styles such as cubism and the inventor of the collage. The man with the golden touch that turned any painting into a wonder, a priceless wonder. It has been said that he was a prodigious child and that from the moment a pencil came into his hand he started creating masterpieces. Actually, the anecdote is that the first word he tried to pronounce was «piz» (or something like that) which was a request for a «lápiz» which means pencil in Spanish.

Then it is said that his first painting, the one below, was something incredible for a lad of nine. But is it really that great? And to judge we have to also add that during those first nine years little Pablo was exposed to drawing, painting and anything and everything related to art as his father was an artist and a professor of art.

In any event, Pablo grew up in a pampered environment and with an artist father that was guiding him, teaching him and preparing him for the admission tests to the Academia de San Fernando, the most prestigious art school in the Kingdom of Spain. He finished all the requirements, i.e. the entrance examination, in one week. But not so fast, don’t be too fascinated.

First, let’s look at the background. His father, an artist and art professor, guided him, rented a private studio for him in Barcelona (which is where the family was living at the time), also used his influence and contacts to get Pablo to be allowed to take the entrance examinations and prepared him. I can tell you that if you attend a private academy, or if an artist prepares you, you can take the examination and finish it in a week as well. That is no mystery and I am sure that many others have done it as well.

As far as his first exhibitions… Well, here again, his father helped him immensely and his talent, I do have to say that his work ethic, his untiring work paid off tremendously, making him a talented young artist. But that he was a genius or a super-gifted artist at that age, well, we just don’t know. It is impossible to know how Michelangelo or how da Vinci painted at the age of nine, or thirteen. There are many art students who can paint that way but they just didn’t have the luck Picasso had. And Picasso had plenty of good luck.

Now, do not get me wrong, I am a great admirer of Pablo Picasso and the portrait above, of Tía Pepa, is a masterpiece, I mean she is there, she is alive…

So, Picasso was a great painter and for me an inspiration and a mentor. But we have to take all the hype and adulation with a grain of salt. He did great things in art, but it was not intuitive or anything like that. It was training, schooling, education and hard, very hard work. That is the road to success in art but if you do not have what Picasso surely had, luck, there is a chance that your genius will never be known…

Originally posted on Rosa de Valencia Artist Representative: («Menage No.1» by Francisco Bravo Cabrera. Image property of FBC, Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia. All Rights Reserved) Surrealism is an art movement … Surreal-Expressionism

Spotlight Art – Menage No.1 – A painting by Francisco Bravo Cabrera @ Rosa de Valencia Art — Art, Music, Photography, Poetry and Quotations

Aquí en Omnia Caelum Studios no solo hacemos arte, pero estudiamos arte porque arte es filosofía, psicología y mucho mas… Yo lo veo así…

«La cara, el gran símbolo de nuestra existencia… La abstracción, la negación de la existencia… el Jazz, la síntesis.»

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Here at Omnia Caelum Studios we not only do art but we study art. Art is philosophy, psychology and more… This is how I see it:

«The face, the great symbol of our existence… The abstract, the negation of existence… Jazz, the synthesis.»

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This is a new one, the metal print, I have just added to my gallery at Fine Art America. I have entrusted this company with images of my work that I have selected to become fine art prints and other items as well. They handle the entire transaction and ship quickly. Fine art prints are an affordable way to have original art in your home.

As you know, abstract art is composed by purposely not placing any recognisable items in the composition. However, we all have to start somewhere, so that is why Picasso said that there was no abstract. I agree but I think that with a good internal reference abstract art, which faces the same problems for the artist as figurative art, can be a success. After all it has outlived most of the vanguards of the Twentieth Century.

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Los sumerios, considerados la civilización mas antigua, existieron hace mas o menos cuatro mil años en Mesopotamia, entre los ríos Éufrates y Tigris en lo que es ahora el sur de Irak. A mi me resultan interesantísimos por lo misteriosa que suele serme el arte que nos han dejado. No me importa lo que digan los arqueólogos ni los historiadores, estos sumerios probablemente eran mucho mas de lo que dicen de ellos los libros. Igual, me fascinan estas estatuas y estos relieves y ojalá a vosotros también. Espero vuestros comentarios.

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The Sumerians are considered the most ancient of civilizations. They existed more than four thousand years ago in Mesopotamia occupying the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in what is now south Iraq. I find them very interesting because of the mysterious art and artefacts they left behind. I really don’t care what mainstream archaeologists or historians have to say about them. To me I am sure they were much more than what the books say. I truly find myself attracted to their statues, their bas reliefs and their temples. I hope you do too and I hope you tell me about it.

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THE ART OF ANCIENT SUMER

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Los nuevos puritanos, los que censuran a trocha y mocha todo lo que les parece feo, malo, sexual, y ofensivo. Claro, todas esas cosas las deciden «ellos» sin que nosotros participemos. Además, no hay derecho. No se puede enseñar un pezón, una teta, pero si un culo, si otras cosas, como los malos ejemplos, en fin, cosas que sí hacen daño. Estamos peor que en la edad media cuando la iglesia o la Santa Inquisición prohibía todo lo que le parecía herejía.

Ya no dejan hablar a la gente pues el discurso tiene que ser controlado y se tiene que adherir a las normas generales que «ellos» han establecido. Hace unos años atrás gozamos de la liberación sexual, social, literaria et cetera y ahora hemos retrocedido al oscurantismo y nos someten a un control ad nauseum.

Hace poco re-escribieron los libros de Ian Flemming, el creador del agente 007, James Bond. Ahora la editora HarperCollins ha re-escrito las obras de la gran escritora Agatha Christie, creadora de Hércules Poirot y Miss Marple, para borrar palabras y frases que puedan herir la sensibilidad de ciertas personas. Y yo alucinando! Pero que es esto!

Borrar la historia seria mejor, quitar todos los libros menos los que «ellos» escriben, quitar estatuas, cuadros, películas, obras de teatro y todo lo que no les guste a estos nuevos fariseos y que el pasado se olvide. Total, ellos gobiernan y controlan el presente y ¿No nos dicen siempre que uno tiene que vivir en el presente?

A donde iremos a llegar si seguimos permitiendo que violen de esa manera las obras de arte de la literatura. ¿Que será lo que le siga, los cuadros?

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El dibujo que he escogido para acompañar esta entrada lo hice durante un tiempillo que me pasé en Cuba. Y no vayáis a pensar que lo que tiene en la teta es un símbolo Nazi ni que yo soy un Nazi ni la cabeza de un guanajo, es un símbolo indio muy antiguo que precede a todas esas gente.

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And here is the crux of the matter, that inevitably, when you read about these latest school shootings, you will read that the assault rifles were legally obtained…

And then you scratch your head, you rub your eyes, you shake and scream out, in what civilised country can eighteen year olds legally purchase military-style assault rifles!!! This is the problem. No matter how many times «they» try to blame it on mental health issues, isolation, alienation, video games, bad parenting, television shows that give bad examples, or whatever else, the truth is that only guns kill and without the easy availability of guns these things would not happen.

It is incredible that in the US schools are not safe. And it is not the fault of the schools. Children all over the world are being raised to think they are «special» that they are little «kings and princesses.» Borders, respect, obedience to authority and discipline are not taught. Children are encouraged to decide, to select, to choose even which gender they prefer to be. All of this without education, without formation and without a background of knowledge. How can something not go terribly wrong, if on top of all that they can go to a store and buy an assault rifle, all the bullets they want and then…

Then tragedy…