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Photography can be, and is, something totally enchanting. Here you see a framed art print of one of my most popular photographs. There are more ways you can display this image, check them out here. And I invite you to my virtual galleries that I have installed in this company, that sells my work and delivers them to you, they do it all, here.
For further information, purchases, commissions, shows, et cetera, please contact my agent-representative in the EU and US through her Instagram page @Guloshka, where you can see the work that I am offering (if still available). Through my agent I sell only originals, no prints. I have only allowed this company to sell prints of my work, and only prints.
As you may know I usually make videos to inform/teach about artists and art and also of my own works and I always use my own, specially made soundtrack that I compose. Some of the videos actually contain music from my old Miami group AJA, like this one, which also features my artwork:
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Esa foto es de un lugar en la costa del Mar Egeo, en Turquía. Como podréis ver, es un lugar fabuloso y es allí donde he desarrollado las fases II y IV de mi serie JaZzArt. Lo muestro para que os deis cuenta de lo difícil que es trabajar cuando existe ese mar, tan fuera de serie, delante de uno.
JaZzArt es una serie de dibujos en tinta y grafito en blanco y negro. La Fase II (2021) tiene un fondo abstracto de colores en acuarela y la Fase III (2021) es igual pero en un tamaño mas grande.
Y aquí están varios ejemplares de la Fase IV, de este verano de 2022, que siguen con el fondo de acuarela, pero las figuras no llevan grafito, solo tinta.
Los dibujos estan hechos sobre un papel de alta calidad marca Alex Shoeller que mide 25×35 cm y el dibujo en si, mide 19×24 cm.
Todos los dibujos se ofrecen a la venta a coleccionistas o amantes del arte y los enviamos desde España. Para mas información esta mi representante en la Union Europea y Estados Unidos, Guloshka, @Guloshka en Instagram donde ella sube imágenes de toda mi obra. Nosotros solo vendemos obras originales. Las reproducciones (fine art prints) se las he concedido a esta compañía y ellos se encargan de las ventas y de las entregas.
The photo above is of a certain part in the Aegean Coast of Turkey where I have developed and painted Phases II and IV of my JaZzArt Series. I just wanted to show you what a fabulous place it is so that you can realise how hard it was to concentrate and work with such waters, so inviting and so near.
JaZzArt is a series of black and white, graphite and ink drawings. Phase II (2021) follows the same patterns but the figures are now on an abstract, watercolour background. Phase III (2021) is similar just in a larger format.
And here are a few examples of Phase IV from this summer of 2022. They keep the watercolour background but the figures are done only in ink, no graphite.
(No.7)(No.5)(No.1)(Images from Phase IV JaZzArt by Francisco Bravo Cabrera. Images property of FBC, Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia. All Rights Reserved)
All images are on fine art paper (Alex Schoeller) and made with Pelikan ink and Faber-Castell watercolour. Paper size is 25×35 cm and the drawing measures 11×24 cm.
All are available to be shipped from Spain. For information contact @Guloshka (Instagram). Guloshka is my agent/representative in the European Union and the United States. She also publishes daily images and reels about my work so if you visit @Guloshka you can see most of the body of my work available for purchase. I sell only originals.I have created virtual galleries at this company to sell select prints that I have chosen to distribute in that manner, but the company handles all the transactions, sales and shipping.
(2021)
Ya la Fase II se ha vendido toda y los cuadros están felizmente en las colecciones de amantes del arte en varias ciudades de Europa.
Phase II has been completely sold and the paintings are happily hanging in the collections of many art lovers throughout Europe.
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What you see here is a wood print of one of my abstract paintings from a few years ago. Here, you can see other ways this image can enhance your walls. This company takes charge of everything from the sales to the distribution and delivery. They are very reputable and well known to many artists, like me, who have decided to allow certain of their works to be reproduced massively as fine art prints of many types. You can see my gallery here.
And what does abstract art remind you of?
What does abstract art represent?
What are the two main styles of art?
These are test questions…
I sell internationally through many means, mostly from my contacts with collectors, but I also have an agent/representative that has posted most of the work I have decided to sell on Instagram. Please contact her and say hello, and place your order. We ship from Europe to most countries in the EU and also to North America, but we can try anywhere else with much pleasure. Her contact is @Guloskha on Instagram. We are also (mostly) available for shows or galleries and commissions. Same contact.
As some of you may know, I make videos of my work…and the work of others as I love to teach and inform…with my own type of jazz/classical/pop/techno music, sometimes with my «band» (which keeps diminishing) or by myself. Here is one from the old days with my band AJA:
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The example you see above is a poster, but here, through this fine company that handles everything from the sale to the shipping, there are other ways you can have this image in your wall. You can also, here, check out my virtual gallery of 25 images from my work that I have created specifically to be made into prints.
I have been painting for over 25 years since I first started Omnia Caelum Studios in Miami Beach, Florida. I have since returned to Europe where I run Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia. All of my work is for sale and I am also available for commissions. Please contact my agent/representative in the EU and US: @Guloshka on Instagram and you can see my collection and place orders directly, not for prints but for originals. Prints I only sell through this company. Here are some more of my paintings and drawings:
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This fine art print is available through this company that does the selling and the shipping anywhere on Earth, here you can check out the images I have posted to my virtual galleries there and prints are available in many different forms, check it out here.
Inquiétant, yes so disquieting…
But isn’t life like that sometimes? Undoubtedly it is although we try to forget those times or those moments or even those people who made us feel inquiétant…
To contrast and compare with many of my earlier works I will leave you this:
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The government is like a jazzman, improvising, however, with one main difference, the jazzman knows what he is improvising upon…
The Government…
it works…it doesn’t
it’s valid and not valid…
It abuses, destroys and devours its children and safeguards its corruption,
and although it says it loves the youth of the nation, it sends them off to kill and be killed, in their own cities as well as in some far, far away…
So, what is the government good for?
So, do we need it or not?
If we think of it with great limitations, it works,
but if it meddles with our individual liberties,
with the life of the people,
with our morality,
with our religion,
with our culture and traditions,
then we don’t need it…
The government is not qualified to involve itself in the lives or in the work of businessmen, artists, and other professionals, technicians or workers of the land. They know how to do their job, they, nor any of us, need the government to be our fathers, teachers or baby-sitters.
Let the government defend our borders, that’s what they should do!
Let the government provide for our basic necessities without charging us an arm and a leg! Every worker deserves his due and has a God-given right to live a dignified life. And we are all equal, we are all workers of the nation.
And let them not think that we have to kowtow to them. They are not divinely placed, we don’t want kings.
The people govern the people for the good of the people. Each group should have their own leaders that know what each group does in society, what they make, and they produce for they know how to guide their operations. The people do not need ministers sitting in their high seats at the Ministry to impose upon them rules and regulations they know nothing about. The masses fine tune their functions with the pulleys and experience of the workers that guide the praxis of production…
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Sirve y no sirve…
Vale y no vale…
Atropella, abusa, destruye, devora a sus hijos, anida la corrupción,
pero también a la juventud acoge, alimenta, engorda y
los manda a matar y a morir…
¿Para que sirve el gobierno?
¿Sirve o no sirve?
Con grandes limitaciones sirve,
pero si se mete con la libertad individual,
con las vidas de la gente,
con la moral,
la religión,
con las costumbres,
entonces no sirve…
El gobierno no tiene fundamentos para meterse en la vida ni en la función de los empresarios, comerciantes, artistas y demás profesionales, técnicos u operarios del país.
Que defienda las fronteras,
que nos provee las necesidades básicas sin que nos cueste un ojo de la cara adquirirlas, pues todo obrero tiene derecho a vivir una vida digna, y todos somos iguales, todos obreros de la nación.
Y que no se piensen que le tenemos que rendir pleitesía porque no queremos a aquellos que dicen que son divinamente elegidos.
El pueblo lo gobierna el pueblo para el bien del pueblo. Cada grupo debe tener sus propios lideres que conocen lo que hacen, crean y producen y saben dirigir sus operaciones. Al pueblo no le hacen falta ministros que desde un ministerio lejano opinan e imponen. La masa se maneja y echa a andar la praxis productora con sus propias poleas…
Así que ¿Para que sirve el gobierno?
Para poco…
09 de agosto de 2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, València.
«What is Love» fue lanzado como single del LP The Album del germano-trinitense Haddaway en 1993. Tremendo tema. Bueno, para mi el 1993 fue un año mágico e inolvidable, así que todas las canciones de ese año me encantan y esta es ciertamente una de ellas…
Disfrutadla y bailadla…
«What is Love» was released as a single from the LP The Album by the Trinidadian-German Eurodance artist Haddaway in 1993. Great tune! Well, for me 1993 was a magical and unforgettable year so all the songs from that year I tend to really like and this is certainly one of them…
Enjoy it and dance!
Y os recuerdo de este tema que tanto cantamos alla por el ’93…
And I want to remind you of this great song that we sang so much back in ’93…
Si piensas que el arte es algo mágico, místico, o cosa muy especial que hay que nacer con ciertas cualidades genéticas para lograrlo, te equivocas. Y si crees que el talento es algo que se tiene, que quizá fue Dios dado o adquirido mágicamente, venga, te vuelves a equivocar.
El arte se curra, se estudia, se aprende y se desarrolla. Es una asignatura universitaria como la medicina o la ingeniería. Hay que pasar por la facultad, o por alguna academia o por un aprendizaje intenso junto a un profesional, o si tienes disciplina, lo aprendes solo, no como autodidacta, sino buscando libros, vídeos , ejemplos et cetera. ¿Acaso los Beatles no se hicieron profesionales de la música aprendiendo sobre la marcha? No hay que ir a la universidad para aprender, pero si hay que aprender.
El talento es cosa que se desarrolla. El gran actor, director y pedagogo ruso Konstantin Stanislavski dijo que el talento “no es nada mas que un tiempo prolongado de atención y un tiempo acortado de asimilación mental.” Y ¿Que quiso decir? Simplemente que si te aplicas a una cosa, borras las otras de la cabeza y si lo curras bien y duramente, llegaras a desarrollar talento. No hay misterio, no hay genética.
Aunque cualquiera puede ser artista, igual que cualquiera puede ser medico o ingeniero, no todos quieren…
Hay que tener en cuenta que para el artista, el arte es un trabajo para ganarse la vida, como otro cualquiera y que si, como lo hizo el gran William Shakespeare, se hace por dinero.
(Shakespeare, se retiró a los 47 años cuando ya no le hacia falta mas dinero)
If you think that art is something magical, mystical or that you have to be born with special qualities to be an artist or to make art, you would be wrong. If you think that talent is something you are born with, or God-given, or some kind of genetic inheritance, you would be wrong as well.
Art is an acquired trait. You learn it, you study it, you develop it. You go to uni, it is a career path, like Medicine or Law. It is a course of superior learning. You can go to a conservatory or a private academy, or study under a professional. Or if you have the discipline, you do it yourself, not as an auto didactic, but learning from books, videos, or as you research the art form you are after. The Beatles didn’t have formal education in the arts, but they learned as they went and they learned fast and they learned much to become what they became.
Now talent. Talent is something you develop. The only way is through hard work. The great actor, director, teacher and theorist Konstantin Stanislavski, founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, said of talent: “Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.” And what does that mean? That you must apply yourself to the craft of your art, dispel your mind, and work it as long and as hard as possible. There is no mystery, there is no genetics.
Although anyone can be an artist, as anyone can be a doctor or a lawyer, not everyone wants to…
We should bear in mind that for the artist, art is a job to earn a living, like any other job. And yes, you do it for the money, like William Shakespeare did.
(Shakespeare retired from writing at the age of 47 because he had made enough to live the rest of his life in comfort)
JaZzArt en València 