JaZzArt en València

Now I have only chosen a few to keep the video at around 2 minutes but there is a lot more new work at Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia. I will be coming out with a new video featuring my Art Digital and other works. In the meantime, I invite you to further explore this channel, this blog and my online gallery at https://www.fbcart.wixsite.com as well as my Instagram: @Francisco_Bravo_Cabrera and my Twitter: «Euskadi_Bakero.

Cheers…

Spillwords.com presents: It’s Never Goodbye, poetry by Francisco Bravo Cabrera, a poet who uses words, music and paints on a canvas …

Source: It’s Never Goodbye by Francisco Bravo Cabrera at Spillwords.com

“The best way to solve a difficulty is not to try to avoid it..” (Noel Clarasó)

La LIBERTAD nos la ha dado Dios, protejámosla, guardémosla, venerémosla siempre y acabemos con los totalitarios y los comunistas porque nos merecemos vivir en LIBERTAD!

Cantad con Macca…

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It is a right, given by God! FREEDOM!!! We deserve it! We’ve a right to it! We fight for it!

We must stop totalitarianism and communism before we lose it…

Sing along with Macca…

Gracias…

Cheers…

So many years… so many lives… here are some of them from a truly Golden Decade, the 1970’s…

Cheers…

Paul McCartney, the maestro himself, penned a delightful little ditty called «Picasso’s Last Words.» And in this whimsical tune, he regales us with a tale of the great painter’s demise, claiming that he took his final breath precisely at the ungodly hour of three o’clock in the morning. Oh, but that’s not all! The song asserts that Picasso’s parting words were, and I quote, «Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink anymore.» Now, this gem of a track was actually recorded back in the groovy year of 1973, smack dab in the heart of Nigeria. And let me tell you, my friend, it found a forever home in what I personally consider Paul’s finest album, the one and only Band on the Run. Trust me, it’s pure gold!

It’s amazing to think that fifty years have passed since Picasso’s passing and the birth of that extraordinary song! Time truly flies, doesn’t it? Picasso remains an unparalleled titan in the art world. His remarkable paintings continue to fetch millions of euros or dollars*, and his profound influence on the art scene is still vibrant and unmistakable. Even though Picasso was a man of the XIX Century, his philosophy, aesthetics, and artistry seamlessly transcend into the XXI Century, leaving an indelible mark.

There is no other artist in art history who can boast as many museums dedicated to his name and his art. Surprisingly, I have had the opportunity to visit some of them, including the Picasso museums in Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, Paris, Antibes, and the Kunstmuseum of Munster. Excitingly, a new museum is on its way to Aix-en-provence. Picasso once remarked that if given a museum, he would fill it with his artworks. True to his word, he has already filled six museums, and soon, there will be a seventh.

Frankly, I am not surprised by the sheer dedication that Picasso, a remarkably industrious artist, possessed. It is difficult to establish an exact measure of his artistic output. Consider the multitude of mediums he ventured into: ceramics, sculpture, book illustration, theatre design, ballet design, lithographs, and countless other works. If we counted those we would undoubtedly encounter astonishing figures.

According to various sources, it is said that Picasso created approximately 13,500 paintings and designs, over 100,000 engravings or lithographs, and roughly 34,000 illustrations for books. Moreover, his masterful hands gave life to around 300 sculptures or ceramics. However, these numbers, as impressive as they may be, remain approximate, leaving room for more or fewer works yet to be discovered.

Now, when the art world decided to take a journey down various twisted paths, let’s say around the time of Pollock’s Action Painting and other movements, Picasso had the opportunity to experience them all. But he gave them all a big, resounding thumbs down. He embraced his inner rebel and became the ultimate «outsider», watching as the new wave of art evolved without him.

But fear not, dear readers, for Picasso was not one to fade away quietly into the shadows. Instead, he decided to reinvent himself as the one and only «buffoon». Picture this: Picasso gracing the cover of TIME and LOOK magazines, on multiple occasions, with flowers adorning his ears. And that’s not all! He would often go incognito, dressing up as a bullfighter or even daring to bare it all in his skivvies. The man knew how to make a spectacle of himself, captivating the media and the masses alike, even at the ripe old age of seventy-five. It’s safe to say that Picasso was truly a master of artistic reinvention and self-expression, in more ways than one.

I believe that despite all efforts made, it was impossible to restrain the influence of the eminent artist. Only death had the power to hinder him. He witnessed, accepted, and captured death in his paintings. Thus, it is unsurprising that he concluded his artistic journey with this eloquent and poignant statement: «Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink anymore.» I express my sincere gratitude to Paul McCartney for transforming these words into a remarkable song.

Regarding those books that are being published now, claiming that Picasso was simply a person who abused his wife and committed acts of «gender violence,» and suggesting that his artworks should be discarded and forgotten, my response is simple: Mind your own business! It is unfair to judge individuals from the past based on contemporary beliefs and values.

Os digo que no hay que agregarle ni una sola letra…

“Do not lose contact with the floor; this the only way you’ll have an approximate idea of your height.” (Antonio Machado)

I think we don’t need to add a single word to this…

ASK

Did I hear you right?
Did you really say that I can ask
and that you will give me whatever I want?

So my friend, then I’d say
give me a rainbow.
No!

Instead,
give me a magic tornado,
one that would sweep from the earth all the ugliness,
all the misfortunes, all the pain,
suffering,
disease.

A storm with a magic broom to sweep away
everything that we’re afraid of.
Let it’s flash floods,
instead of destruction, wash away the sadness,
wash away the pain,
so that after the rain
we can smile
and forget all our hardships.

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This poem does not imply that the damages caused by tornadoes are valuable and good, instead it refers to the idea of a cleansing storm that would only wipe from our midst negative things and leave all the good people and good things unharmed. It is figurative and most certainly not literal.

Thank you.

I wrote this poem back in 2021

Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 19 FEB 2021, València, Spain

Mare meua las cosas cada vez se ponen mas raras, poquet a poquet nos vamos metiendo en el ojo del huracán…

Porque che, me parece algo completamente absurdo que se abogue por un sistema atrasado, atroz y cruel, y que digan por ahí que así, que con los progres, es como se han logrado cosas positivas para la sociedad. Y lo peor es que hay tantos que han llegado a igualar al socialismo y al comunismo con el progreso.

Y cual es el progreso de los comunistas. Bueno, antes de llegar al poder se dedican a ofender a los que no comparten sus mismas ideas. Ojo, os aviso que todos los que nos oponemos al comunismo no somos fachas. Y aprende, los fascistas desaparecieron con la muerte de Mussolini. No hay ningún país gobernado por esa difunta ideología.

Che, hablan del feminismo, pero no para lograr la igualdad para las mujeres…cosa que todos queremos…sino para atacar a los hombres diciendo que cometen crímenes machistas. Han creado ahora lo que ellos llaman violencia de género, término que no es mas que una ofensa contra los hombres y contra la humanidad. Les encanta prometer cosas que no se pueden cumplir, ni aunque quieran, como decir que van a resolver el problema de la pobreza o que les van a dar dinero a los jóvenes. ¿De donde van a sacar la pasta? Imposible. ¿Con que culo se sienta la cucaracha?

Lo peor, te digo es cuando llegan al poder, cosa que ojalá jamás suceda, porque si logran consolidarse se apoderan de todo, de lo político, de lo cultural, comienzan a quitarle derechos al pueblo y a eliminar la religion. Bueno, el que no me crea que vaya a Cuba, a Venezuela o a Nicaragua. No, mejor que vayan a Corea del Norte. Yo si he estado en Cuba, dos veces, y lo vi todo…

Bueno, querido diario, antes que me manden a fer la ma, te dejo esa foto…y sí, es una foto…porque me parece que esos hombrecillos verdes…y van mudados che…han llegado y se han escondido bajo los puentes de las ciudades, en los descampados y en los túneles de los trenes y están meados de la risa viendo las locuras que están ocurriendo en este país y en muchos otros. Aquí te lo dejo che, ¿Qué piensas?

A mi siempre me ha fascinado… No, no Joan Miró, sino la fama que ha logrado… Siempre ha sido un misterio para mi y realmente me gustaría saber que ven en sus cuadros, claro, a los que le gusten. Me da la impresión que si no fuera sido por su familia, que conocía a mucha gente importante y que tenía conexiones…y pasta…y que organizaron y abrieron la Fundación Joan Miró, a Joan no lo recordaría hoy nadie… Y tenían que abrir una fundación, digo yo, porque si no, ¿Donde iban a meter todos esos cuadros?

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I have always been fascinated… No, not by Joan Miró, but by the fame he has achieved… It has always been a mystery to me and I would really like to know what people see in his paintings, of course, those people that actually like them. I have the impression that if it hadn’t been for his family, who knew a lot of important people and had connections…and money…and who organized and opened the Joan Miró Foundation, no one would remember Joan today… And they had to open a foundation, I mean, where else would they put all those paintings?

Hasta un vídeo hice de este artista, ¿Qué os parece?

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I even made a video of this artist. What do you think?

Aquí os dejo los tres que más me gustan… ¿Fenomenales, no? Como se ve que se los curro bien currados, hasta el nombre, pues se titulan Inmersión Azul.

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Here are the three that I like the most… Phenomenal, aren’t they? You can tell that Joan put a lot of effort into them, even to find a suitable title, well maybe not and he just called them Blue Immersion.

Si eres fan de Joan Miró, si lo consideras un gran pintor, y te fascinan sus cuadros, dímelo, explícamelos porque no les encuentro ni pies ni cabeza. Y no hablo de Miró el tío, probablemente habría sido una persona amable y simpática, no lo conocí. Me limito a criticar su obra artística exclusivamente.

Gracias…

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If you’re a fan of Joan Miró, if you consider him a great painter, and you are fascinated by his paintings, tell me, explain them to me because I can’t make heads or tails of them. And I’m not talking about Miró the guy, he probably would have been a kind and friendly person, I didn’t know him. I simply limit myself to criticizing his artistic work exclusively.

Cheers…