JaZzArt en València

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Aqui tenéis el próximo capitulo de historia de arte…

Well here is the next chapter of Art History…

Gracias…

Cheers…

Por la calle de mi casa,

vieja calle donde vivo,

he dejado mi ADN,

he bebido tanto vino.

También estrené sonrisas,

te he llevado de la mano,

dormí siestas en sus brisas,

vivo bien con lo que gano.

En el bar una cerveza,

en el horno mi croissant,

Las naranjas no se quejan,

de ser agrias, así van.

Esta calle es un milagro,

es mi mundo de día a día,

recuerdos dulces, amargos,

llevo por la calle mía.

C.2022, Francis Bravo Cabrera, 08 de diciembre 2022, València, España 🇪🇸

The Holy Inquisition was definitely not an act or an institution of holiness. It was an institution of power, of greed, of fear, superstition and atrocities that has forever become the greatest symbol of injustice that the world has ever seen. It began in France and spread throughout Europe. One of the names that sticks out is the English King Henry VIII who persecuted Catholics and who mercilessly killed thousands of them. Another was the French crown and the Pope of Rome who also condemned countless numbers to death, including Saint Joan of Arc and Galileo Galilei (who although his death sentence was commuted, died under house arrest). Let us not forget that the Black Legend of the so-called Spanish Inquisition is a myth created by the Dutch and the English in an effort to undermine and discredit Spain, which at the time was composed by the united Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.

Let me know what you think…

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Abstract art? Really? Well…

I painted the above and then photographed it and “dealt” with it digitally to convert it into an NFT (Non-Fungible-Token). I call it the “Bluester”, because there is a blue rooster in the painting…

So, is it abstract? Being that most of the painting is created with the pure power of colour, I would say yes it is.

Abstract art is not just random colours, lines, drippings or scribbling. Abstract art contains the same problems as figurative. The most difficult aspect of abstract art is that the reference is internal, within the mind’s eye of the artist.

Abstract art has to follow the same rules as figurative. The artist must search, investigate and plan the colour, the composition and even the “style”, as there are differences…

Let me know what you think, especially if you are an abstract artist.

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Well, being that today is the Feast Day of the Epiphany (El día de los Reyes Magos en España), I thought I would divert from the timeline of our art history videos and bring this little known part of the history of art. This is the development and the rise of paintings called «La virgen de la leche» or the nursing Madonna. It stems from the early Egyptian religion of Isis and Horus, as well as from Greek and later Roman mythology.

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Here are the words to a song that was named after a mis-spelling or a confusion created when George wrote «bridge» and Eric, having mis-read it, thought it said «badge» and then went on to name the song «Badge». Therefore the name means nothing reference the words of the song. Regardless of the name, the song is smashing good, a hell of a bloody good one for sure, y’all…

BADGE

Thinkin’ ‘bout the times you drove in my car.
Thinkin’ that I might have drove you too far.
And I’m thinkin’ ‘bout the love that you laid on my table.

I told you not to wander ‘round in the dark.
I told you ‘bout the swans, that they live in the park.
Then I told you ‘bout our kid: now he’s married to Mabel.

Yes, I told you that the light goes up and down.
Don’t you notice how the wheel goes ‘round?
And you better pick yourself up from the ground
Before they bring the curtain down.
Yes, before they bring the curtain down.

Ah Ah Ah, yeh yeh yeh
Ah Ah Ah, yeh yeh yeh

Talkin’ ‘bout a girl that looks quite like you.
She didn’t have the time to wait in the queue.
She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle.

«Badge» came from Cream’s fourth and last album Goodbye from 1969. When George Harrison and Eric Clapton were in the process of writing the song, and Eric misnaming it, Ringo Starr walked in drunk and told them about the swans that they live in the park…

It must have been fun back in those days with such creative people.

Cheers…

Que la semilla de hoy brille con un mañana feliz,

que el amor que ahora brindamos sea el amor que recibimos,

cada día, cada momento,

en cada grito,

en todo silencio,

la semilla se enfrenta a un futuro incierto,

pero en la esperanza sagrada tendremos acierto.

C.2022, Francesc Bravo Cabrera, 05 de enero 2022, València, España 🇪🇸

Spillwords.com presents: Rain, poetry written by Francisco Bravo Cabrera, a poet that uses words, music and paints on a canvas …

Source: Rain, poetry by Francisco Bravo Cabrera at Spillwords.com

Welcome back to our series on art history. We continue with some painters of the Spanish Renaissance. And we hope that this will provoke you to seek more, research more and investigate. Art history is very important to both artists, who need to know it and know it well, and to art collectors or lovers of art who will appreciate the art they love so much more. We would like to feature the Renaissance art of other European countries, if there are many likes to videos like this one. So if you promise to give us a like, we promise to continue with the series. Stay in touch.

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