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«Self-Portrait in Orange 23» is now a fine art print and available only through Fine Art America. They handle the entire transaction and ship quickly. I also have several other images to make into fine art prints of your choice. You can have them printed on wood, metal, acrylic, canvas, paper, framed or even as a poster among other things. Check out my gallery…
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Let me introduce you to one of the cities that I love the most in North America, New Orleans…
This is the metal print, but there are many other types of prints to choose from and other items with this image as well. I have a special gallery in Fine Art America (the only company I allow to make fine art prints of my work), with twenty five specially selected images (and some made specially for this gallery and service) that can be converted by this company (which handles everything and ships quickly) into fine art prints of many types.
Since I love New Orleans so much, and I spent many springs there attending the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, I wrote a song that I would like to share with you…
OMNIA CAELUM STUDIOS VALENCIA PRESENTS:
«YaYa for New Orleans»
(This is one of my earliest videos when I was going simply by «Bravo»)
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«Blue Menina,» a precise example of my surreal-expressionist style is now available, exclusively, through Fine Arts America as a fine art print. Here you see the canvas print, but there are more to choose from. There are also 24 other images to choose from in my gallery. Fine Art America handles the entire transaction and ships quickly.
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This is one of my new cubist/expressionist/surreal portraits and I chose Diego Velázquez, the great Spanish master… This is the acrylic print, but there are many other prints to choose from at Fine Art America. This company does my fine art prints (and they are the only one). They do the entire transaction and ship quickly. So chekc out my gallery at Fine Art America here.
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This image is brand new to my gallery at Fine Art America. It is an expressionistic view of a female jazz singer/pianist and the image you are looking at is the framed print, but there are other styles, like wood print, metal print, canvas print or poster that you can choose from…
Expressionist art or «surreal-expressionism» (my own development), is my way of showing you how I see the world, and my world is usually one of jazz, dance, music and lots of art…
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I know I have talked a lot about abstract art, and I am not even an abstract artist, but there is so much to say about this vanguard art movement of the XXth Century that I had to break it up into separate segments. Well, like I said many times before, there are basically only two types of art: Figurative and Abstract. So abstract art is everything that figurative is not and figurative is everything that abstract isn’t. Right?
Wrong…
Abstract art is that art which has no resemblance whatsoever to anything pertaining to the natural world we inhabit. But it does not mean that it cannot resemble all that we can imagine exists in our world or others. Abstract art cannot have anything in the composition that resembles a figure, if it does, it is not abstract. There are many paintings which appear to be abstract and perhaps confuse many people into thinking they are abstract but they are just figurative paintings that are stylised, surreal, expressionistic or whatever the artist wanted to do with them, but as long as they have a figure or something akin to one, they are not abstract.
Now, for today I just wanted to add that for me, as well as for many other figurative painters, abstract art has taught me how to create figurative art in a much wider fashion. It has taught me how to appreciate the great figurative masters of art history. If you stand before a masterpiece by El Greco, Velázquez, Van Gogh, Rembrandt or any other, you will see, sometimes hidden, but mostly openly, in their compositions a lot of abstract art.
Take a look. Look at the backgrounds. Look at the way some of the clothing is created. Look at the parts that are not figurative and you will see so much abstract art that if they would just take that out and create a new painting, they would have invented abstract art in the XVIIth Century.