Monday I called our stone supplier, who we purchased most of our stone from for our remodel, to find out what I should clean my stone with to preserve it. She was very gracious as always, but I could sense something wasn’t right, so I asked her if she was ok. She told me about…
Ya todos sabemos de tu savoir fair, de tu genio errático, de tu afán por modas arcaicas y efímeras, y de lo que te gusta andar por viejas aguas, y aires del futuro, que vuelven cuan la marea.
Todo el mundo sabe, vives en la tierra hueca, con toros de mazapán y osos de colores, con caballos lentos que se ríen de prisa, con zapatos negros que mueren de risa al sentir el fango del camino errado ¿Dónde te has metido? ¿Dónde te has colado?
Quien aquí no sabe, quien no se ha enterado, que subes a la cima de montes helados, y luego te zambulles en océanos rosa y vuelas con las alas de una mariposa que ha quedado herida, que ha sufrido tanto, por llevarte encima, por cantar tu canto…
A todos encantas. A todas seduces. Y a los demás espantas con tus cuatro cruces que elevas en noches cuando te presentas en bares oscuros donde el saxofón suelta el viejo humo de cigarros rotos, amarillos, olvidados como tantos otros, tantos, tantos, tantos, que has dejado lejos, porque no te importan, no te pertenecen, ya secos no crecen, no existe el pasado…
(2023-Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 8 de febrero de 2023, Valencia, España)
(«Velas» Original painting by FBC/All Rights Reserved)
Everybody knows of your savoir fair, your erratic temper, your fashion sense, and your artistic flare.
We all know you live in the hollow earth, in a cave with bulls, in a field with bears, and how much you’re worth.
Everybody knows you have climbed the mountain, and you’ve sailed the sea, you have walked upon the sands of beaches that stretch as far as the eye can see…
Everybody knows. Everybody cares. Everybody hangs on every word you dare to mutter in the night, when you sing in smoky caverns, where the saxophone delights, and the piano’s soft caresses fill the air with acid gas that replaces French perfume, that seduces, in the light of one hundred and three candles that were left upon the floorboards by a silent, weary traveller that will here return no more, no more…
But… Everybody knows about all you know, about secret missions, about dark silhouettes. Everybody knows that what you reap you sow…
2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 08 FEB 2023, València, España
(Image property of FBC/Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia/All Rights Reserved)
As you see it here, «A Song for You» is now a framed fine art print. It is readily…and affordably…available through Fine Art Amerca, a company that I have entrusted with my images to create fine art prints of several varieties. Check them out here. This company handles everything from the sales to the shipping and their products are of the highest quality.
(Image from original photograph by FBC/All Rights Reserved)
This photograph, now a fine art print available only through Fine Art America, is of the old boardwalk of Miami Beach. This historic structure was torn down to make way for the cement «beach walk» in 2019. But here I have kept a memory. It is available as a framed print, a wood, metal, canvas, or acrylic print (and even a poster). Fine Art America handles the entire transaction and ships quickly anywhere. I have several other prints available, affordable and of excellent quality here.
¡Venga! Ya hay lugar para tantos cuadros malos, malísimos, que ocupan puestos en otros museos del mundo y es en el museo de arte mala (Museum of Bad Art/MoBA) de Boston y en sus sucursales. Aquí no entra quien quiera, sino quien pueda, porque hay criterios para que un cuadro sea aceptado. Uno de ellos es que no debe valer mas de $6,50. Además tiene que ser un cuadro que surgió del deseo del pintor de hacer una obra seria pero que le salió mal. El curador Ollie Hallowell del MoBA dejó dicho que el cuadro tiene que provocarte un «¡Madre mía!» en el observador. Bueno, el vídeo te lo dirá todo, disfruta de arte tan mala que no puede ser ignorada. (En serio te digo que algunos de estos cuadros me gustan).
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Ok! Finally there’s a place for so much bad art that is hanging in other museums around the world and it is the Museum of Bad Art, the MoBA in Boston and now other cities as well. But don’t think that any one of those ugly paintings you may find in garage sales or flea markets can make it to the collections of the MoBA. No. They have clear standards, like in any respectable museum. The standards are that no painting can be of a value more than $6.50 (USD) and it must have been made as a serious effort that somehow went wrong. Curator Ollie Hallowell said that a painting must elicit the «Oh my God!» response in the observer. Well, the video will show you everything of this art, too bad to be ignored. (Seriously, some of these paintings I do like).
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(Si te ha gustado por favor dale el «like» ya que eso nos ayuda mucho, gracias/If you liked it please give it a «like» as that helps us a lot, thank you)
Gracias…
Cheers…
(Foto/Photo CBS – Este cuadro me gusta mas que la de Leonardo/This painting I like more than Leonardo’s)
(«Five Nails» Image property of FBC/Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia/All Rights Reserved)
This is one of my power drawings «Five Nails» (wood print) from the pre-Jazz Art period. Now I have allowed it to become a print in wood, metal, acrylic, canvas, paper or framed, (and even as a poster), through Fine Art America. This company handles everything from the sale to the shipping. I have other images there in my exclusive gallery.