#art, «SHE PLAYS» A Fine Art Print

(«She Plays» by FBC/Art Digital/Image property of FBC/All Rights Reserved)

This image can be a poster, a canvas print, a wood print, a metal print, an acrylic print and a framed print (as well as more…). Here you see the poster version which you can get here at Fine Art America, a company that I use because they may excellent prints as well as other fine items with my images on them. They take your order, conduct the sale and ship to you fast. I have a group of images in a gallery here where you can select…

Now at Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia we sell only my original paintings and drawings. The only place authorised to make prints of my work is Fine Art America, and the images I supply (and change often so check it out). If you are interested in original art because you are a collector (let me tell you that my work is in many private collections throughout Europe and US), you can get in touch with my representative, Guloshka, (Guloshka404@gmail.com) and you can also see the selections available at her Instagram: @Guloshka.

OMNIA CAELUM STUDIOS VALENCIA

(2020)

Cheers…

#artvideo, «Hay que hablar de los retratos» – «We Must Speak of Portraits»

(Autorretrato de Picasso/Self-Portrait of Picasso 1906 – Foto/Photo 1906)

El retrato, el autorretrato, algo que se viene haciendo en la historia del arte toda la vida. Hay que conocerlo bien…

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The portrait, the self-portrait, something that has been happening in art history always. We must get to know it well…

(2022)

Gracias…

Cheers…

#art, Dalton Paula at the MoMA, Manhattan

(The artist Dalton Paula – photo Leituras do Giba)

Now I must confess that I do not know too much…or barely anything…about this artist. He was born in Brasilia, Brasil in 1982 and graduated from Goias Federal University Aparecida de Goiania Campus.

What I do find interesting is that Dalton Paula is an artist after my own heart because he recognises his significance as a viable, well educated and prepared member of the «polis», who has a voice and who speaks. He has criss-crossed his country of Brasil and has studied and expounded upon the relationship between art and the problems, sociologically and politically that exist as a result of his country’s history, formation and development. I have always advocated that artists should speak out because they represent a class that not only has a right, but has the training and the expertise to do so.

Here are some of his works exhibited now at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of Manhattan.

(«Liberata» 2020 – Photo MoMA)

Dalton Paula studied visual arts and has dedicated his work to the exploration of the Afro-Brasilian culture. Interestingly, he actually worked as a fire-fighter for ten years…

(«Joao de Deus Nascimento» 2018 – Photo e-Flux)

His first exhibition was at the Sé Galeria in 2014. Then in 2016 he participated in the 32ª Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo. In 2020 six of his portraits were exhibited at the MoMa, Manhattan.

(«Miguel Congo» 2022 – Photo DASartes)

I have included this artist in the series because he is, in my humble opinion, a good contemporary artist who is engaged in an activity that I truly value, social activism. However, he is not a revolutionary nor a street fighter, he approaches the complex problems of his history and society from an intellectual and affirmative point of view which teaches and visually explains so many things. Hope you like it.

Tell me what you think…

Cheers…

Women’s Artists Series: Performance and Video Installation Artist Lida Abdul

(Lida Abdul – Photo MUNDO PERFORMANCE)

I usually do not feature «performance» or «conceptual» artists as I prefer artists that actually create something out of materials, like a painting out of paints or a sculpture out of either marble, bronze or other hard…or soft…material. However, I know and understand that since the brilliant start of Marina Abramović (Serbian,1946), performance art has become rather mainstream. And this artist, coming from a country like Afghanistan, grabbed my eye. So I want to share her with you and I would like to know what you think.

Lida Abdul was born in 1973. Her family fled Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded. She lived as a refugee in India and in Germany before relocating to the United States (Los Angeles). Her work is a sort of documentary, in an artistic, perhaps even poetic manner, the terrible things that have happened to her country. First the Russians, then the Taliban, then the US and their war on terrorism. All of these traumatic events guide her work and inspire Abdul to create very emotional pieces that make you reflect, think, meditate on what life is like after a major devastation.

(Photo MUNDO PERFORMANCE)

Lida holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science and one in philosophy from California State University, Fullerton and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, granted in 2000.

(Photo Artsy)
(Memorial Ruin – Photo Contemp+orary)

I am attracted to artists that dare to talk, express opinions and voice their complaints. I think that those things are a requirement for artists. Therefore my appreciation of Lida’s work, although I am not a fan of performance art…

Now it is your turn to tell me what you think…

Cheers…

#poema, «La vida es un salon de baile»

(JaZzArt de FBC/OmniaCaelumStudiosValència/Derechos Reservados)

LA VIDA ES UN SALÓN DE BAILE
(Comenzada el 14 de diciembre 2022; escuchando a Joni Mitchell “Shadows and Light”)

La vida es un baile… Quizá… ¡No! La vida es un salón de bailes
donde te encuentras solo, parado en una esquina, en silencio
murmurando la canción que está tocando la banda, y estratégicamente te pasas la mano por el pelo, engomado, y brillante,
que te da un look de rock and roll,
un aspecto de macarra amable,
el adonis de la sala
en la esquina
sin bailar,
solo…

¿Quién me sacará del abismo?

¿Quién me liberará?
¿Quién me hará vivir?

Soy el hombre que ha abierto los ojos, porque ha caído y se le ha roto el vidrio oscuro que los cubría.
Y ya soy hierba junto a un cedro y un rio, cuya corriente fluye y mueve las aguas…

Aunque me acueste llorando, amaneceré cantando,
y la tristeza la cambiaré por cantos porque no soy una caña sacudida por el viento,
el viento del salón de baile, el viento del look rock and roll, el viento que me despeina…

Y la vida es un baile… ¡No! ¿Es un salón de baile?
No seas hierático ni tonto. Sabrás que la vida es un oasis en el desierto,
y no te avergüences si no bailas hoy pues bailaras mañana…

(17 de diciembre de 2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera,València, España)