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*The set depicts the daily lives of the people living in this multi cultural community and is the inspiration for this illustrated book which when completed will be self published. As most of my works it was produced while listening to the original recording of same title. It can be heard and seen with a short video on You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA9DEHaOLqQ&feature=fvsr
The set is best viewed on black.
* inspirado por la poesia de Magda Artegui-Soler, y formando parte de mi serie titulada: ""Maria's de nadie"
*a once friend, later foe whom I named in jest "Rudolf the red nosed Vallenares" and which stuck to him for many years to come . Rodolfo had a drinking habit from early on and when he had one to many, his nose would light up like a red light bulb. He passed away many years ago, but at this time of year his misdeeds that caused him in so much trouble and landed him in the "dog house"** come to mind.
** "dog house" was the original title. best viewed on black!
*The set depicts the daily lives of the people living in this multi cultural community and is the inspiration for this illustrated book which when completed will be self published. As most of my works it was produced while listening to the original recording of same title. It can be heard and seen with a short video on You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA9DEHaOLqQ&feature=fvsr
The set is best viewed on black.
*there are times when a work of art gets bigger than the man who makes it; this is one of those times!
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p.s. already as is, best seen on black
*from a new set of drawings titled: "the many lives of an artist" #4 from about fifty in process.
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*as danced by the queen of Bulerias, the legendary, one and only, Carmen Amaya doing the Zambullida, taking the male role in men's costume and succeeding brilliantly. The rendering is best viewed on black
p.s. for those interested, You Tube has a wonderful clip from her debut as a teenager in the film classic of 1939, "Maria de la O" and a more recent cut titled: Carmen Amaya y su troupe por Bulerias 1961.
*al hilo de las tablas, loosely translates to: close to the boards.
This painting was done on the back of an old painting on canvas, hence the "aged" look;
*It is black as no other; it has to be cooked, mixed with petrol, it smells and is outright dangerous to one's health yet, if in dark mood, there is no other paint as asphalt !
I have recently found some transparencies of my "dark period" and will share them with my flickr. friends as soon as I get them scanned.
Laid out to dry in the sun on the roof of my studio; after ten days it still was wet and smelled worth than when first painted, but it was dark, very dark!
*this small rendering on canvas was painted outdoors by candlelight while listening to a recording of "La Negra y Lole Montoya" last seen in 1975. After finishing this rendering discovered to my disbelief a recording of same with her mother on You-Tube, that one, of 1972 at a private party. Amazing the world of the internet. Perhaps before too long we may be able to communicate with the dead.
* "Nada me cuesta confesar que ha logrado ciertas paginas validas, pero esas paginas no me pueden salvar, quizas porque lo bueno ya no es de nadie, ni siquiera del otro, sino del lenguaje o de tradicion. Por lo demas, yo no estoy destinado a perderme, definitivamente , y solo algun instante de mi podra sobrevivir en el optro. Poco a poco voy cediendole todo, aunque me consta su perversa costumbre de falsear y magnificar,
Spinoza entendio que todas las cosas quieren perseverar en su ser, la piedra eternamente quiere ser piedra y el tigre un tigre. Yo he quedar en Borges, no en mi, /si es quien alguien soy/, pero me reconozco menos en mis libros que en muchos otros o que en muchos otros o que en el laborioso rasgueo de una guitarra. Hace anos trate de liberarme de el y pase de las mitologias del arrabal a los juegos con el tiempo y con lo infinito, pero estos juegos son de Borges ahora y tendre que idear otras cosas. Asi mi vida es una fuga y todo lo pierdo y todo es del olvido, o del otro." Jorge Luis Borges, en el utimo ano de su vida, 1983. p.s. esta pequena pintura expresa mi humilde tributo a este escritor barbaro quien ha inspirado tantas de mis pinturas en el pasado y forma una serie de pinturas dedicadas a los escritores favoritos mios de mi juventud.
This painting is part of a series I am presently working on and is best viewed on black.
The above writing is a passage from a book by 20th, century greatest writer, Jorge Luis Borges written the year before his passing and expresses word for word what I wish to have writen on my own tomb stone, if and when I can afford to buy one. Unfortunately it is virtually untranslatable without loosing much of it's meaning.
This set came about after finding her favorite song after 40 years on You Tube; a beautiful new version of a old classic coming back with a vengeance: You Tube: Mar Azul-Cesaria Evora - Marisa Monte.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OQ37VA1yI
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A seemingly rough but all-the-same intimate portrait.
Egon Schiele 1890–1918, Austrian Expressionist painter.
Peter Vergo, contemporary art historian.
Taken from ‘Art in Vienna, 1898-1918’, 1st ed. 1975, this 2nd ed. 1981, publ. Phaidon Press Ltd., Oxford, by Peter Vergo.
Hauptsturmfuhrer Rudi Hoes: "Wirtschafts und Verwaltungshauptamt der SS chef und Auschwitz Kz lager direktor verantwortlich fur die vernichtung von 400.000 Juden wurde in Warschau aufgehengt"
Max Pechstein
Eckersbach, 1881-Berlin, 1955
Horse Fair (1910)
Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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*percance literally a tossing, not goring, usually with the bulls head and between the horns, not fatal at the moment but with serious consequences in later life due to internal injuries sustained by blow.
PS I have attempted to draw the feel of being hit by a ton of mass, but most just came out a blur, the above is the best I could do to convey the image at the point of impact. Not at all artistic and I certainly don't expect any one to comment.
PS the above is from personal experience being tossed, fortunately without consequences except being black and blue for a couple of weeks
* "abanicando me o con el abanico cerrado detras de mi espalda?; la maja al pintor pretendiendo de ser una Goyesca" mejor visto encima negro.
*from photograph, presently at work on his portrait. Lucky Cienfuegos, cosidered at one time, one of America's greatest poets of the 1970's, now but sadly forgotten; Lucky, originally from Cuba, settled in Manhattan in 1969, writing poems describing the life of emigrant artist's living and working in the U.S.
Lucky was one of the creators of the Nuyorican art movement, later becoming a leading figure in theater productions as well. His poems, were widely distributed via "Xerox" copies and were read and endorsed by other leading poets such as Che Guevarra. None of his poems were ever published by main stream publishing houses, yet they were read and cherished by the thousands mostly illiterate of the so called "third world" countries and of course the "Banana Republics" as they were referred to in the 70's.