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«Picasso said nothing was abstract, I really think he missed the boat on that one. I see the world as an abstract that we have been trained to accept as an orderly place controlled by laws that «experts» have thought of. The only one who knows anything about this world is God who created it. The rest is an abstract thought ripped from the fibres of faith.» (Francisco Bravo Cabrera)

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Do not be afraid to do it and say it loud. Art is either good or bad because art, like music, divides first only into two categories: good and bad. And please, this is not a matter of taste but of truth. Good art shows mastery of ideas, technique, reference, experience, depth, and coherence. Bad art demonstrates a lack of professional approach bordering on laziness, emptiness, or mere gimmickry.

One may dislike Bach, yet Bach remains good, outstanding I would say. One may enjoy a jingle, yet the jingle remains bad. Taste does not rewrite reality. To collapse all art into “subjective preference” is to pretend that a child’s scribble equals Giotto, or that noise equals a symphony. The fact is simpler, harsher, and liberating: art is either good or bad. Everything else is commentary. And that is true because your taste…or mine…does not define art. Art is an academic subject matter and a profession. And although many people think of it as a pastime, it is definitely not. An artist does not work to pass the time but works for money, to sell a professional finished product.

So, just to recap, art, like music, is judged by one, and only one major law: it is either good or bad. Your taste may wander, and you may like this or that, but your taste does not define quality nor does it judge art. It is merely your taste (or mine) and we can have, like so many people we see «out there», bad taste. And taste, good taste, is an important attribute that an artist must have. To deny this is to confuse noise with music, scribble with painting, accident with creation. And bear in mind that the process of creating art is not intuitive. It is contrived, developed, refined, reworked and polished. Although it still can be a complete and total mystery.

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Part 3 coming up…

This incredible tango by Chick Corea is something that will brighten your darkest nights, and not that this is a dark night, as the moon still joins us for a drink…

Enjoy…

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¿Qué pasaría si los peces pescaran? Bueno, ni puta idea, pero creo que eso sería más bien un síntoma de lo mal que están las cosas. Y las cosas estan bastante jodidas, no solo en España, pero en el mundo entero. Y me pregunto ¿Por qué? Y esto sí que lo sé…

Las cosas están jodidas porque nos gastamos un chorro de euros para mantener zoquetes que viven de los problemas que crean y luego se la quieren dar de progresistas. No fotis…

Banderas palestinas, que significa que apoyas a Hamas tío, no te las pases, jodiendo las carreras be bicicletas, (y fíjate en quien está detrás de esa), tratando de imponer menos horas laborales, (y detrás de esta), sabiendo que eso va a dañar el comercio y la industria y sin comercio no funciona el país, coño, y jode a los obreros. Pero es que esta gente no quiere resolver ni arreglar las cosas, lo que quieren es que las cosas se vayan a la mierda con la velocidad de un pedo…

Mare meua! Y por el otro lado los rusos siguen bombardeando a civiles en Ucrania, y parece que a los amantes de Hamas esa gente no les importa, solo viven por apoyar a los gazatís…

Si siguen así las cosas nos iremos al carajo en una cesta de flores…

«Cuando estes de acuerdo con el presidente y el congreso, rectifica»

Francisco Bravo Cabrera – En algún lugar del Mar Egeo, hoy 14 de septiembre del 2025

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What would happen if fish fished? No idea. But I think that would be more of a symptom of how bad things are. And things are pretty messed up, not only in Spain but all over the world. And I wonder why? Well this I do know…

Things are fecked up because we spend a whole lot of money supporting all these scoundrels that live off of creating problems and later say that they are the «progressives» of the land. Bullshite!

Flying Palestinian flags, and that means you support Hamas buddy, don’t think it doesn’t or that we are stupud. Interrupting bicycle races (and check out who is behind that one). Trying to lower the work week (and behind this one), knowing that it goes in detriment of commerce, and without commerce the country cannot progress, and this ultimately damages workers. But, the truth is that these people do not want to solve problems or help anyone. All they want is to destroy society, as we know it, as quickly as possible so that they can repair it their way. And that is not going to be good for anybody but themselves.

Good gried! And on the other side of our Europe, the Russians continue to bombard civilian targets killing innocents. But these killings do not matter to the supporters of Hamas as they live only to support the ones from Gaza.

If things go on like this we are going to hell in a hand basket…

«When you find yourself agreeing with the Executive and the Congress, it is time to re-consider, re-think, and re-evaluate your positions.»

Francisco Bravo Cabrera – Somewhere on the Aegean Sea, today the 14th day of September of 2025

Art is objective, do not doubt it. Art possesses inherent qualities: form, structure, composition, skill, harmony and originality. These qualities can be judged independently of personal taste. I do not argue with taste. Individual likes and dislikes are subjective,. But the value of art is rooted in these objective elements that give it enduring power and universal resonance, and this goes way beyond the shifting opinions of art lovers.

To say “art is subjective” is making of art a non-standardised, non-professional endeavour and it is a refuge for people unwilling to face standards. Taste, for sure is subjective, and people can still have good or bad taste, and not just in their breath. Art is not like that. A painting or a symphony is not a matter of preference in the same way as choosing vanilla or chocolate. Works of art embody objective qualities: proportion, rhythm, innovation, mastery of medium, coherence of vision. These are measurable and comparable, regardless of whether one “likes” them.

To reduce art to opinion is ridiculous and to distorts the difference between genius and banality. It’s like saying Mozart’s music is equal to elevator music, or that a Rembrandt is equal to child’s doodle. The serious study of art, as an academic pursuit and as a profession, recognizes that, although taste fluctuates, the core of art does not and it endures based upon objective principles. Without them even the word art would lose its meaning.

CHEERS

COMING SOON

Part 2: Art can only be divided into GOOD and BAD art.

Part 3: Good and bad artists and art

¿Qué pasaría si los peces pescaran? Bueno, ni puta idea, pero creo que eso sería más bien un síntoma de lo mal que están las cosas. Y las cosas estan bastante jodidas, no solo en España, pero en el mundo entero. Y me pregunto ¿Por qué? Y esto sí que lo sé…

Las cosas están jodidas porque nos gastamos un chorro de euros para mantener zoquetes que viven de los problemas que crean y luego se la quieren dar de progresistas. No fotis…

Banderas palestinas, que significa que apoyas a Hamas tío, no te las pases, jodiendo las carreras be bicicletas, (y fíjate en quien está detrás de esa), tratando de imponer menos horas laborales, (y detrás de esta), sabiendo que eso va a dañar el comercio y la industria y sin comercio no funciona el país, coño, y jode a los obreros. Pero es que esta gente no quiere resolver ni arreglar las cosas, lo que quieren es que las cosas se vayan a la mierda con la velocidad de un pedo…

Mare meua! Y por el otro lado los rusos siguen bombardeando a civiles en Ucrania, y parece que a los amantes de Hamas esa gente no les importa, solo viven por apoyar a los gazatís…

Si siguen así las cosas nos iremos al carajo en una cesta de flores…

«Cuando estes de acuerdo con el presidente y el congreso, rectifica»

Francisco Bravo Cabrera – En algún lugar del Mar Egeo, hoy 14 de septiembre del 2025

+++

What would happen if fish fished? No idea. But I think that would be more of a symptom of how bad things are. And things are pretty messed up, not only in Spain but all over the world. And I wonder why? Well this I do know…

Things are fecked up because we spend a whole lot of money supporting all these scoundrels that live off of creating problems and later say that they are the «progressives» of the land. Bullshite!

Flying Palestinian flags, and that means you support Hamas buddy, don’t think it doesn’t or that we are stupud. Interrupting bicycle races (and check out who is behind that one). Trying to lower the work week (and behind this one), knowing that it goes in detriment of commerce, and without commerce the country cannot progress, and this ultimately damages workers. But, the truth is that these people do not want to solve problems or help anyone. All they want is to destroy society, as we know it, as quickly as possible so that they can repair it their way. And that is not going to be good for anybody but themselves.

Good gried! And on the other side of our Europe, the Russians continue to bombard civilian targets killing innocents. But these killings do not matter to the supporters of Hamas as they live only to support the ones from Gaza.

If things go on like this we are going to hell in a hand basket…

«When you find yourself agreeing with the Executive and the Congress, it is time to re-consider, re-think, and re-evaluate your positions.»

Francisco Bravo Cabrera – Somewhere on the Aegean Sea, today the 14th day of September of 2025

Art is objective, do not doubt it. Art possesses inherent qualities: form, structure, composition, skill, harmony and originality. These qualities can be judged independently of personal taste. I do not argue with taste. Individual likes and dislikes are subjective,. But the value of art is rooted in these objective elements that give it enduring power and universal resonance, and this goes way beyond the shifting opinions of art lovers.

To say “art is subjective” is making of art a non-standardised, non-professional endeavour and it is a refuge for people unwilling to face standards. Taste, for sure is subjective, and people can still have good or bad taste, and not just in their breath. Art is not like that. A painting or a symphony is not a matter of preference in the same way as choosing vanilla or chocolate. Works of art embody objective qualities: proportion, rhythm, innovation, mastery of medium, coherence of vision. These are measurable and comparable, regardless of whether one “likes” them.

To reduce art to opinion is ridiculous and to distorts the difference between genius and banality. It’s like saying Mozart’s music is equal to elevator music, or that a Rembrandt is equal to child’s doodle. The serious study of art, as an academic pursuit and as a profession, recognizes that, although taste fluctuates, the core of art does not and it endures based upon objective principles. Without them even the word art would lose its meaning.

CHEERS

COMING SOON

Part 2: Art can only be divided into GOOD and BAD art.

Part 3: Good and bad artists and art

Escuchando el concierto de piano numero 15 de W. A. Mozart, K 450) Vivimos en el planeta Tierra, supuestamente, y en un mundo dominado por la …

AL PAN PAN Y AL VINO VINO (No.2) By Francisco Bravo Cabrera

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