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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.

OMNIA CAELUM STUDIOS PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

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…

The Delano is back with a new location in Paris, marking the start of an international rollout for the landmark hotel brand born in Miami. — Read on wwd.com/eye/other/delano-hotel-miami-is-back-with-new-paris-location-1235585810/ A very dear hotel to my heart. It has fantastic memories for me in South Beach, the original one.

The Delano Hotel is Back With a New Paris Location – WWD — Rosa de Valencia Artist Representative

Well, I really thought about what I was going to write about today, then I took a walk, did some observing of nature, came home, got ready to write and forgot everything…

But it’s alright, no problem. Today is Sunday, for some people a day to rest, or to go to church, or to just be lazy. For us here in València it is a day to go out to our favourite terrace restaurant (the weather is phenomenal) and eat a big paella with our friends or family. The women drink their vermuts with lemon and the guys drink their beer or wine. And we eat the paella right from the pan, which by the way is also called «paella.»

And what can I say. In France the «people» are destroying private property, burning rubbish containers, and causing many headaches to President Macron. I am pretty sure there are «ultras» infiltrated into those crowds and assigned to the cause of mayhem. Professional agitators, professional gangsters who are there only to destroy and hurt others. But on the other hand I really do not understand what the French want. For retirement age to be 62 they would have to produce more children than they do and it will not be something sustainable. And working until 64 is still a bloody good privilege as in most countries retirement age is 65 or over. So I don’t think they will get much international sympathy.

In the US, my previous home, all I hear is about Trump’s forthcoming indictment. But will it ever happen? Some say that he is untouchable because he is an ex-president (and we all hope he stays ex-president forever), but I say what happened to the universal doctrine that no one is above the law? Even if you are a sitting president, if you break the law, you pay the price, no?

And here in my own country, Spain, the political debate still rages between what the left calls the «extreme» right and what the right calls the «extreme» left. Incredible! They call communists «progressives» and conservatives «fascists!» What will the future of the country be after the next elections? I predict the same as now. Spain is a stable first world country where political change is only in the edges, the fringes, but the lifestyle, economy and mainstream politics don’t, and will not change.

So, until I decide to fill in the next page in this insane diary, be cool, and keep thinking, writing, painting, singing or whatever you do…

Cheers…

Esto a mi me sorprendió muchísimo porque recuerdo haber visto estas estatuas, y otras, sin ojos, o con solo agujeros en las orbitas oculares…

Pero… vivimos en una época de grandes cambios. No solo es eso, lo que llaman progreso, lo que los está generando, hay otras cosas sucediendo, difíciles de entender y mas de describir. Creo que es por eso que muchas cosas que recordamos eran de cierta manera, ahora son diferentes. A veces las diferencias son mínimas, pero otras veces el cambio es radical y contundente. Creo que esto de los ojos de cristal en las estatuas antiguas es una de ellas.

Pero quiero que seáis vosotros los que me contéis…

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This surprised me greatly as I remember seeing these statues, and others, without eyes, or with only holes in the eye sockets…

But… We’re living in a time of great changes, and it isn’t just progress that is causing it. There are other things happening, difficult to understand and much more difficult to even to describe. I think that is why many things that we remember a certain way, now they are no longer that way. Sometimes the changes to things are small and subtle but other things have changed radically and bluntly. I think that this thing with ancient statues now having these incredibly life-like crystal eyes is one of them.

But I want you to tell me…

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ANCIENT STATUES WITH GLASS EYES

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The video says it all, what more can I say…

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