#art, The Great Baroque Master is now a Fine Art Print…

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This is one of my new cubist/expressionist/surreal portraits and I chose Diego Velázquez, the great Spanish master… This is the acrylic print, but there are many other prints to choose from at Fine Art America. This company does my fine art prints (and they are the only one). They do the entire transaction and ship quickly. So chekc out my gallery at Fine Art America here.

OMNIA CAELUM STUDIOS VALENCIA PRESENTS:

(2023)

Cheers…

#art, Dos grandes artistas de las vanguardias – Two Great Artists of the Vanguards

(Chirico/photo Biografía y Vidas)
(William Blake/photo Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Estos dos aportaron mucho a la historia del arte y al arte de muchos pintores de nuestra época. Hay que conocerlos bien…

These two added much to art history and were of great influence to many modern painters. We must get to know them well…

Gracias…

Cheers…

#art, «Jazz Piano» is now a Fine Art Print…

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This image is brand new to my gallery at Fine Art America. It is an expressionistic view of a female jazz singer/pianist and the image you are looking at is the framed print, but there are other styles, like wood print, metal print, canvas print or poster that you can choose from…

Expressionist art or «surreal-expressionism» (my own development), is my way of showing you how I see the world, and my world is usually one of jazz, dance, music and lots of art…

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#art, A Few Other Things About Abstract Art… (Esp/Eng)

(«Cuadro abstracto No. 44» Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)

I know I have talked a lot about abstract art, and I am not even an abstract artist, but there is so much to say about this vanguard art movement of the XXth Century that I had to break it up into separate segments. Well, like I said many times before, there are basically only two types of art: Figurative and Abstract. So abstract art is everything that figurative is not and figurative is everything that abstract isn’t. Right?

Wrong…

Abstract art is that art which has no resemblance whatsoever to anything pertaining to the natural world we inhabit. But it does not mean that it cannot resemble all that we can imagine exists in our world or others. Abstract art cannot have anything in the composition that resembles a figure, if it does, it is not abstract. There are many paintings which appear to be abstract and perhaps confuse many people into thinking they are abstract but they are just figurative paintings that are stylised, surreal, expressionistic or whatever the artist wanted to do with them, but as long as they have a figure or something akin to one, they are not abstract.

Now, for today I just wanted to add that for me, as well as for many other figurative painters, abstract art has taught me how to create figurative art in a much wider fashion. It has taught me how to appreciate the great figurative masters of art history. If you stand before a masterpiece by El Greco, Velázquez, Van Gogh, Rembrandt or any other, you will see, sometimes hidden, but mostly openly, in their compositions a lot of abstract art.

Take a look. Look at the backgrounds. Look at the way some of the clothing is created. Look at the parts that are not figurative and you will see so much abstract art that if they would just take that out and create a new painting, they would have invented abstract art in the XVIIth Century.

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Dear Diary, Page 888, What About History Months?

(«The Big Idea» Digital Art by FBC/All Rights Reserved)

Logic… What is logic? Well some may say it is «correct reasoning» while others may say that it is that «science» of deductively valid inferences, whatever that is… And if you mention «science» in the definition, then you might encounter a logical problem, which is the question, «what is science?» I don’t know what it is and I will not attempt to respond to the question. What I have to say is different and not found in that rabbit hole.

I don’t really value logic that much, or at all. It is a thought process created by those who would attempt to control humanity with a series of laws and norms that don’t really mean anything. There are many things that are done in the world that have nothing to do with correct reasoning or with deductions of valid inferences. One thing is that the US state of Hawaii (a series of islands) has an interstate highway. Is that logical? What state does it lead to?

Another thing is that in the US the month of February is called «Black History Month» but there is no «White History Month» or no «Spanish History Month», no «Chinese History Month», no «Irish History Month», no «Jewish History Month» and so on and so forth. Is that logical? I mean Black Americans have a very proud and long history, but so so White ones, or Irish ones or Italian ones or Spanish ones. Why has the government not celebrated their history and given them a month? It is illogical…