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This fine art print is of my image «Towards Fantasy» printed on metal. But Fine Art America can have the image printed on artists paper, canvas, wood, or have it framed or made into a poster or somethings else… I have authorised several images to be made into fine art prints through Fine Art America and this is my virtual gallery which you can visit (and visit often because I edit it often and replace images). This company handles everything from the sale to the delivery and I know from lovers of art which have purchased, that the quality is excellent and the delivery is fast.

The image is of the old boardwalk that existed in Miami Beach, Florida. It went for several kilometres alongside the dunes of the beach. Sadly the City of Miami Beach allowed the structure to deteriorate to the point that it had to be torn down and replaced with the beach-walk, a cement path along the same route of the old boardwalk. It is very nice, but not the same thing.

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El término legal, nombre, descriptivo ad infinitum, Violencia Domestica es el que mejor se puede emplear para describir y categorizar aquellos crímenes cometidos, no para robar ni para hurtar, sino para ejercer poder, voluntad y violencia sobre otra persona.  Pueden ser violaciones a la integridad física o mental de otra persona, y usualmente ocurren en […]

VIOLENCIA DOMESTICA by Francisco Bravo

De mi viaje a Miami Beach, Florida (EEUU) durante el verano de 2022…

From my trip to Miami Beach, Florida (US) during the summer of 2022…

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Magdalena Abakanowicz

A esta escultora y artista polaca no la conocía. Murió en 2017 a los 86 años, nació en Falenty, Polonia en 1930. Se hizo famosa en la década de los años 60 con sus esculturas tejidas y tapices que parecían auténticos murales y de ahi salió su gran obra Abakan que, en 1965, ganó el Gran Premio de la Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brasil. Luego, ya durante la década de 1970, los tapices se fueron convirtiendo en figuras humanas, animales y aves. Para lograr el efecto mas sublime y a la vez contundente, utilizó tejidos de yute, sisal, pegamento y resina. Magdalena Abakanowicz también fue profesora en la Escuela de Arte de Poznan y hasta llegó a ser profesora invitada a la Universidad de California en Los Angeles (1984).

Hay que conocer a estas artistas. No importa si te gusta o no su obra, pero tienen que llegar a ocupar los mismos puestos que ocupan los artistas masculinos. La Tate Gallery de Londres ha abierto una exposición de Abakans en el Blacatnik Building de la Tate Modern.

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Magdalena Abakanovicz

I did not know this Polish artist and sculptor. She died in 2017 at the age of 86 years and was born in Falenty, Poland in 1930. She became famous in the 1960’s with her woven sculptures and tapestries that looked like authentic murals. From those surged her great work Abakan that won the Grand Prize at the Brasil Biennale (Sao Paulo) in 1965. Later, in the 1970’s the tapestries started to take on human form and she created human figures, animals and birds, all woven with yute and other fibers. Magdalena Abakanovicz also dedicated herself to teaching and taught at the School of Arts of Poznan and was invited, in 1984, to be a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

We all have to get to know these women artists, regardless of whether or not we like their work. They must be given their rightful place alongside male artists of the same calibre. The Tate Gallery in London is exhibiting her work Abakans in the Blacatnik Building of the Tate Modern.

Who will take my hand?
Who will extend theirs to me?
Who can change my life?
Is it even possible?
I search…
Among the villains of the town,
the wise ones that look down
upon the holy…
They’ll never see a miracle,
they only share their miseries
in shot glasses,
at the bar at five o’clock,
gin tonic time…

Share with me your bilious libations,
your anger, your tears
of bitter nights
wrapped in the smoke
of hundreds of cigarettes,
in the dark,
damp,
room
where you store your precious heart…

I’m a hunter on your trail,
escaping me there is no chance,
the heavens will smile down upon my dance.
And you will reach the sea,
the waters that refresh,
renew,
give life to few brave pilgrims
that approach in silence
so the earth won’t cry…

And I truly hope the earth won’t cry
and that the sea refreshes you,
and that the forests and the valleys warm your body
and that the wind speaks of the loves you’ve left behind…
And that those voices that you hear
sing you a song of light and wonder,
to scare away the shadows,
to scare away the black and bitter sorrow
that you’ve harboured,
quite enamoured of its pleasures,
passionate and vulgar,
caressingly divine,
insane alive with fulgor,
but sour, like bad wine…

And I will search,
search through your smokescreens,
your unbearable delights,
for a hand that reaches skyward,
for a lantern in the night,
for the luck to win your mercy,
for the rhyme to win your heart,
for the smallest,
tiny particle,
the spark…

C.2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 09 JAN 2022, Valencia, España

EL PINTOR – EL CUADRO – EL ARTE

El pintor piensa, desarrolla ideas, hace sketches, prueba cosas nuevas, cosas viejas, cosas…

El cuadro no comienza con el primer pincelazo o con el primer trazo con el carboncillo (lápiz), no, comienza en las neuronas del artista y de ahi, gracias a las sinapsis llegan los impulsos hacia las manos, hacia los dedos y la idea que estuvo dando tumbos entre neuronas se transforma en una imagen sobre papel o lienzo (o madera o metal)…

El arte no es solo algo que se usa para decorar, para estudiar, para polemizar et cetera et cetera. El arte es el resultado del pensamiento. Es la version visual de una idea así que el arte es un ejercicio espiritual y filosófico. Contiene, en sus dimensiones, colores, composición, lógica, forma, intención y respuesta, un telegrama hecho con tinta, con lápices, con colores al óleo o acrílicos sobre tela o papel…

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THE PAINTER – THE PAINTING – ART

The painter thinks, develops ideas, makes sketches, tries new things, old things, things…

A painting does not start with the first brush stroke or the first line upon a paper. No. It starts in the neurons of the artist and from there, thanks to the synapsis the impulses reach the hands, the fingers and the idea that had been bouncing around the neurons transforms into an image on paper, or canvas, or something else, wood or metal…

Art is not just something used to decorate your salon, or something to study, to discuss et cetera et cetera. Art is the result of thought. It is the visual version of an idea. Therefore art is a spiritual exercise and philosophy. It has, within its dimensions…colour, composition…logic, form, intention and replies. It is a telegram made with ink, pencils, colours in oils or acrylics on paper or canvas…

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This image can be a poster, a canvas print, a wood print, a metal print, an acrylic print and a framed print (as well as more…). Here you see the poster version which you can get here at Fine Art America, a company that I use because they may excellent prints as well as other fine items with my images on them. They take your order, conduct the sale and ship to you fast. I have a group of images in a gallery here where you can select…

Now at Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia we sell only my original paintings and drawings. The only place authorised to make prints of my work is Fine Art America, and the images I supply (and change often so check it out). If you are interested in original art because you are a collector (let me tell you that my work is in many private collections throughout Europe and US), you can get in touch with my representative, Guloshka, (Guloshka404@gmail.com) and you can also see the selections available at her Instagram: @Guloshka.

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Alfred Kubin, Max Klinger, Zdzisław Beksiński…

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El retrato, el autorretrato, algo que se viene haciendo en la historia del arte toda la vida. Hay que conocerlo bien…

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The portrait, the self-portrait, something that has been happening in art history always. We must get to know it well…

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Now I must confess that I do not know too much…or barely anything…about this artist. He was born in Brasilia, Brasil in 1982 and graduated from Goias Federal University Aparecida de Goiania Campus.

What I do find interesting is that Dalton Paula is an artist after my own heart because he recognises his significance as a viable, well educated and prepared member of the «polis», who has a voice and who speaks. He has criss-crossed his country of Brasil and has studied and expounded upon the relationship between art and the problems, sociologically and politically that exist as a result of his country’s history, formation and development. I have always advocated that artists should speak out because they represent a class that not only has a right, but has the training and the expertise to do so.

Here are some of his works exhibited now at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of Manhattan.

Dalton Paula studied visual arts and has dedicated his work to the exploration of the Afro-Brasilian culture. Interestingly, he actually worked as a fire-fighter for ten years…

His first exhibition was at the Sé Galeria in 2014. Then in 2016 he participated in the 32ª Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo. In 2020 six of his portraits were exhibited at the MoMa, Manhattan.

I have included this artist in the series because he is, in my humble opinion, a good contemporary artist who is engaged in an activity that I truly value, social activism. However, he is not a revolutionary nor a street fighter, he approaches the complex problems of his history and society from an intellectual and affirmative point of view which teaches and visually explains so many things. Hope you like it.

Tell me what you think…

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