JaZzArt en València

«Everything you taught me, I didn’t believe it». Mare meua! That’s what I used to think of all the things my parents tried to tell me, or tech me. Perhaps that is why I always loved this song! It’s a great one from the good old days of techno pop in the eighties. But, don’t be fooled, these blokes were the top!

Enjoy!

Cheers!

This was one of my first art digital creations back in Miami Beach. I have saved it all these years until I found a reputable company that would sell it as a fine art print, a metal print, an acrylic print et cetera and you can see it/get it here. And if you like you can take a look at my galleries there as well.

And as usual, here is a little more of my work from those days, with original music:

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This was once a painting, now belonging to a collector in Spain. But new life, after changing a few things from the image, it becomes a fine art print which I have allowed this company, a very reputable one, to sell. You can check it out here as well as others in the gallery that I have created.

And if you would like to follow through with watching some more of my work and listening to some of my music, then, at your own risk, watch the video:

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Time to finally reveal my favourite Beatles song which happens to be my favourite song of all time (in English). So here it is:

«In My Life», from the 1965 Rubber Soul album is a song primarily written by John Lennon. And although I always preferred Paul’s songs, this one is an exception and in my opinion, the best song John ever wrote, (and yes, including «Imagine»).

Possibly Paul created most of the melody, that is what he has said and I tend to believe that as he was certainly more skilled in music than John. And George Martin did the piano interlude. And yes, it is a piano, sped up in the recording and not a harpsichord.

Always loved this song and I think it is a song that most of us can relate to. The lyrics are a poem. The words speak simply and clearly, without mystifying adjectives or metaphors, without enigmatic phrase constructions or elaborate language. He tells it like it is and I think he hit the mark perfectly. When I die, I want this song to be played in my funeral and I would dedicate it to all my loved ones and to all those who loved me.

Cheers…

To all those who howl at the moon, tonight there will be plenty to howl at as well. Around these parts la luna rises around 2110 hours…

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Abstract art? What is it? There’s still great confusion out there, even among “professionals” in the art world. I recently saw an online catalogue of abstract artists and I saw Picasso listed. Pablo Picasso never painted an abstract work. As a matter of fact he did not even like abstract art.

Abstract art is a type of art that has no likeness to anything in the natural world. There are no forms or figures that can remind you to humans or animals or anything. It should remind you of nothing. Just like classical music. Classical music can evoke feelings and emotions but it does not remind you of anything.

On the other side of abstract art is figurative art. Any painting that has figures or recognisable forms is automatically figurative art. Perhaps what confuses many is that there are many artists that mix styles in their compositions and place a figurative composition upon an abstract background. But no matter how much colours are played with or how much expressionism is injected into the composition, it is still figurative art.

Abstract photography might differ a bit from abstract painting but it still follows the same rules. And believe me, art has its rules. Composition has rules and one, as an artist will benefit greatly from following them.

As an artist I usually do not think of styles or much less of developing a style, so I mix styles in my work. One thing I usually do, and have done always, is create an abstract background for my paintings. Lately I have titled my work as “surreal-expressionism” but it’s all Jazz Art for me.

These are some photographic images I have manipulated…in a simple manner…to create abstract photography, of course following the rules of abstract art.

And since I do add abstract art to my work, here is a sample. This is a watercolour painting created by establishing a background of colour in an abstract way and superimposing figures drawn with ink. The composition is figurative.

In conclusion, I would recommend to all artists, or students of art, to become fully acquainted with art history. An artist learns from artists of the past much more than from contemporary ones. And remember that the successful contemporary artists are well trained, not only in their craft but in the history of art.

To art lovers and collectors, well I would say that the more knowledge you have of art history the more you will enjoy art and a better collector you will be.

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«Evolution» is part of a triptych of «JaZzArt» in colour and painted with acrylics on canvas which I painted in 2019 and exhibited that same year in Barcelona.

Now I have allowed this very reputable company to create art prints of different types with the image. You can visit here and see this one and several others.

I leave you with this video with original music which features many more of my artwork:

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Como ya sabemos…o creemos…la abstracción no la inventó Kandinsky, sino ahora hemos descubierto que una pintora, Hilma af Klint, es la verdadera merecedora del titulo de haber sido la inventora…o descubridora…del arte abstracto. Pero claro, Kandinsky era un artista muy conocido, profesor, incluso, del Bauhaus y escribió un libro. Ya con eso se consagró. Su famosa «Acuarela abstracta» de 1910 fue considerada la primera obra abstracta, pero ya vemos que no lo fue.

Pero bueno, desde aquellos principios, la abstracción se adueñó de la pintura vanguardista. Sabemos que Kandinsky y Picasso eran contemporáneos pero no se entendían. Picasso abogaba por el cubismo y Kandinsky por la abstracción. La historia nos demuestra que Kandinsky ganó pues vemos la abstracción…buena o mala…por todas partes y muy poco cubismo.

Aun así, digo yo, que la abstracción, como estilo, es un poco aburrida. Los primeros cuadros de Kandinsky, aunque de cierto modo interesantes, ahí se me quedan y no me entran del todo. No me dicen nada y me parecen, mas que otra cosa, un ejercicio, una búsqueda, para seguir hacia delante, no para parar ahí. Lamentablemente Kandinsky se quedó ahí, y los demás artistas abstractos de la historia del arte se han quedado en el intento y no han podido lanzar la abstracción hacia algo mas interesante. Claro, generalizo porque si he visto algunas abstracciones interesantes e inteligentes. Pongo a Antonio Saura como ejemplo.

Pero para mi lo mas importante es que si uno revisa la historia del arte, uno nota que la abstracción ha estado presente, en muchos de los cuadros mas famosos, especialmente del renacimiento. El Greco, por ejemplo, se valió mucho de la abstracción para crear sus fondos apocalípticos y misteriosos. También la usó para darle formas a las telas y a los trajes de las figuras de sus muchas de sus composiciones.

Y así, si revisamos, encontraremos mas y mas ejemplos de como los pintores clásicos también conocían el valor de la abstracción pero que en lugar de llenar un lienzo de líneas y colores la utilizaron para darle un aspecto diferente a las figuraciones que hacían. De esa manera le agregaban a sus composiciones algo nuevo, algo diferente que quizá evocara grandes emociones en el observador. A lo mejor por eso nos gusta tanto…a mi definitivamente…el arte de El Greco.

Será la abstracción, como parte de la pintura figurativa, el famoso je ne sais quoi que tiene la pintura renacentista y la clásica? Quizá, el arte, como la música et al, es algo muy subjetivo y cada quien ve lo que cada quien quiere ver en cada cuadro que mira.

Yo, como pintor, no he tenido mucho que ver con la abstracción, pero si la he estudiado y también he pintado cuadros abstractos. Uno de ellos «Campo Estela» formó parte de una exposición en el MoMA (Museo de arte moderna) de Nueva York en 2017.

Concluyendo diría que la abstracción no debe quedarse en manchas de pintura sobre una tela, sino que debe tener una referencia. Por eso es que no es nada fácil lograr una buena abstracción, porque la referencia es interna y además el pintor tiene que resolver los mismos problemas que presentan los cuadros figurativos. Por eso prefiero utilizar la abstracción como una herramienta que me ayude a terminar un cuadro, que me ayude a ponerle al fondo algo enigmático y diferente, ya que lo mío es el expresionismo surrealista. Yo mezclo los estilos y les pongo mucha abstracción a mis cuadros figurativos.

Aquí os dejo algunos de mis trabajos abstractos…son muy pocos…y otros donde utilizo la abstracción como un recurso para añadirle algo mas, algo diferente a mis composiciones.

Gracias…

This is a rather new painting, still waiting for a «good home» in my studios in Valencia but I have now allowed it to become a fine art print being sold through this reputable company and you can access this one and many others here.

And as I have been doing throughout this campaign to bring some notice to my new effort to bring forth these prints, here are samples of many more, accompanied by my original music:

Cheers…

This was originally a view of downtown Miami Beach…

You can get this print here, as I have allowed this image to become part of my collection available through this agency.

And here are a few others, together with my music:

Cheers…