JaZzArt en València

This is what Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, 1942-2016 said before his military induction in 1967:

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

No, I am not going ten thousand miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would put my prestige in jeopardy and could cause me to lose millions of dollars which should accrue to me as the champion.

But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is right here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality…

If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. But I either have to obey the laws of the land or the laws of Allah. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail. We’ve been in jail for four hundred years.”

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This is my tribute to the Champ

Paraphrasing the Champ

If I die, I’ll die fighting…
I give nothing to my enemies
and my enemies are those who take away from my brothers and sisters,
they black and they proud…
If you want to have something they don’t have,
I won’t help you get it…

I got no beef with the Vietcong,
with the Chinese,
Japanese,
they’re not wrong…
You’re my enemy, not them
and I don’t want to have to tell you again…

You stand opposed to equality,
you stand against my truth and my God,
you want me fighting in a strange land
so I won’t speak out at home.

C.2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 10 DEC 2022, Valencia, España

Os traigo un vídeo de Paul Gauguin, el pintor francés, clasificado como un post-impresionista, pero que yo diría que fue mas bien un simbolista y metió mucho expresionismo en su pintura. Lo destaco porque quiero seguir con el tema del expresionismo y pronto os presentaré un vídeo de Edvard Munch, uno de los expresionistas que más me gusta…

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I am bringing you a video about Paul Gauguin, the French post-Impressionist. However I consider him more of a symbolist that put a lot of expressionism in his paintings. I bring him to you because I want to continue with the topic of Expressionism. Soon I will publish a new video on Edvard Munch, one of my favourite expressionists…

Gracias…

Cheers…

Este cuadro es de mis tiempos en Estados Unidos y es un buen ejemplo de expresionismo con sabor a Jazz-Art. Quiero destacar este movimiento artístico que surgió en el S. XX con el vídeo que aquí os traigo y además muy pronto con uno dedicado a un gran expresionista, Edvard Munch.

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This painting is from my time in the United States and it is a good example of expressionist art with a Jazz flavour. I want to bring you more of this art movement that surged in the 20th Century. First with this video and later…very soon…with one about a great expressionist, Edvard Munch.

Gracias…

Cheers…

Tambien conocido como/Also known as Francisco Bravo Cabrera

¿Que cosa es el Jazz-Art? Bueno, comenzaré diciéndote que para mí es «JaZzArt» ya que es algo que he venido desarrollando desde hace mucho tiempo. Pero ¿Es un estilo? Quizá, pero yo diría que esto es mas bien mi manera de trabajar, la forma de acercarme a la faena, al arte, al dibujo y a la pintura. Yo se que tiene los rasgos característicos propios de lo que sería un estilo, y tu podrías decir claro tío si se repites los temas, los «personajes» de las composiciones y hasta la forma de dibujarlos. Venga, puede que tengas razón, no discuto esas cosas, en fin son opiniones y todos tenemos derecho a tenerlas.

Pero para mi el «JaZzArt» es una filosofía. ¿Porqué? Simplemente porque yo lo baso en las normas de la música Jazz, que me encanta. El Jazz lo desarrollaron…hasta podríamos decir que lo inventaron…en Nueva Orleans grandes músicos como Jellyroll Morton, King Oliver, entre otros, y por supuesto por Louis Armstrong, «the Man», o sea el tío de puta madre. Ellos convinieron que el Jazz tenia que tener principalmente estas tres cosas: Improvisación, que el musico tenia que tener libertad para crear y finalmente ritmo, o «swing».

Esas son las normas que gobiernan mi pintura. Comienzo con una idea (claro bien desarrollada, el arte no es cosa intuitiva), pero permito que la idea se someta a la improvisación. Luego le doy a los elementos de la composición libertad creativa. ¿Que un cuadro no puede tener libertad creativa? Pues si puede. La libertad creativa quiere decir que a medida que voy desarrollando los elementos de la composición voy permitiendo que me guíen. Y finalmente el ritmo. Vale, eso lo ponen las figuras, también los brochazos, la textura y otros elementos que busco y le añado para que el cuadro vibre y cause sensación de movimiento, id est, el swing…

What is Jazz-Art? Well, I’ll start by saying that for me it is «JaZzArt» because it is something that I have been developing for a few years. But, is it a style? Maybe, but I would say it is more like an approach to art, to painting, to drawing. I know it may seem to have the proper characteristics that define a style. And you will say that that the themes are repeated, the «characters» as well as the compositions, and even the way I draw them, and you may be right. I don’t debate these things. They are opinions and we are all entitled to them.

But for me «JaZzArt» is a philosophy. Why? Simply because I base it on the simple rules that govern Jazz music, which I love. Jazz was developed in New Orleans by such great musicians as Jellyroll Morton, King Oliver and of course by Louis Armstrong, «The Man». They convened that Jazz would be ruled by three clear and precise principles: Improvisation, creative freedom and swing, or rhythm.

Those are also the rules that govern my paintings. I begin with a well developed idea (art is not intuitive), but I allow for improvisation. Then I give the elements of the composition creative freedom. A painting cannot have creative freedom? Yes it can and it means that I let the elements of the composition guide me in their development, changing, evolving. And finally here comes the rhythm and that is formed by the figures themselves, as well as by brush strokes, creating texture and perhaps other elements strategically added or placed so that the painting will seem to vibrate, to move and to give the observed a flowing sensation, id est swing…

OMNIA CAELUM STUDIOS VALENCIA

Gracias…

Cheers…

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Nuestra Plaza de la Virgen…

Our Plaza of the Virgin…

De otra época, bueno, parece serlo aunque no han pasado tantos años…

It seems like from another time, but in truth not too many years have passed…

Gracias…

Cheers…

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«C A P T I V E S«…

The original drawing belongs to my «Cuban Jazz» series of graphite and ink drawings from the mid 2000’s. Now this image is part of my Fine Art America galleries and available to all at quite an affordable price.

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Cheers…