Gold Beach

Gold Beach, acrylic on canvas, 11x22" (27x55cm.) painted last year in California. I am in California now for a few days, before flying to France, so I will be publishing California beach scenes for a few days. Estoy en California ahora por unos dias, antes de volar a Francia, asi que en los proximos dias publicare escenas de las playas de California pintadas en ano pasado.

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939): Seduction, Modernity and Utopia, exhibit in Salamanca Art Museum, Spain, summer of 2009. Mucha was the best known artist in Paris in the 1920s and 30s. A great deal of his success can be attributed to the fit between the disturbing beauty of his images and the effectiveness of the medium employed, the lithographic poster, which uses the street as a space for communication. Seduccion, Modernidad y Utopia de Alphonse Mucha, exhibicion en el Museo de Arte de Salamanca, Espana, en el verano del 2009. Mucha fue el artista mas famoso de Paris en los anos 20. Una gran parte de su exito se debe a la combinacion de la belleza de sus imagenes y su efectividad en el uso de la litografia en posters distribuidos en las calles de Paris.

Los Zapatos de Annie

Los Zapatos de Annie, pastel, 20x16 (50x40cm.)

Every form of art took society hundreds of years to accept. One important reason was the power of the Christian Church. They prohibited non-religious images. Still life paintings were considered "low in rank". The earliest surviving still lifes are from Pompeii. Caravaggio has said: "It's just as difficult to paint a good picture of fruit, as it is to paint human figures." A todas las formas de arte les llevo muchos anos ser aceptadas. Una razon importante fue el poder de la Iglesia Cristiana. Ellos prohibian imagenes no religiosas. El "bodegon" or "naturaleza muerta" era considerado "mas bajo nivel" como tema pictorico. Los bodegones mas viejos que han sobrevivido son de Pompeya. Caravaggio ha dicho: "Es igualmente dificil de pintar una buena pintura de frutas, como lo es de figuras humanas."

Mon Jardin Secret

Mon Jardin Secret, acrylic, 16x12"(40x30 cm.) or "my secret garden", represents the view from my window in the Pyrenees, and my soul. This painting was exhibited in France in 2008, and belongs to my dear friend Lupi, in California. "Mi jardin secreto", representa la vista desde mi ventana en los Pirineos, y mi alma. Esta pintura fue exhibida en Francia en el 2008, y pertenece a mi querida amiga Lupi, en California.

There has been many painters/writers. Among them, some didn't even go to school, like William Blake, who said: "Education is no good, it is a grave mistake. It is a sin." Some other painter/writers are: Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Winston Churchill, Hans Christian Andersen, e.e. cummings, Kahlil Gibran, Federico Garcia Lorca. Who's your favorite? Ha habido muchos pintores/escritores. Entre ellos, algunos ni siquiera fueron a la escuela, como William Blake, quien dijo: "La educacion no es buena, es un grave error. Es un pecado." Otros pintores/escritores son: Charlotte y Emily Bronte, Winston Churchill, Hans Christian Andersen, e.e. cummings, Kahlil Gibran, Federico Garcia Lorca. Quien es tu favorito?

Tired Boots

Tired Boots, white charcoal over black Canson paper, 11x14" (28x 35 cm.) "Botas Cansadas", carbon blanco sobre papel Canson negro.

Herman Hesse said once: "I don't think I'm a painter, but painting is wonderful. Afterwards, one doesn't have black fingers, but blue and red fingers." And Marcel Duchamp said: "I've forced myself to contradict myself, to avoid following my own taste." Herman Hesse ha dicho: "No creo que sea pintor, pero pintar es maravilloso. Luego uno no tiene los dedos negros, sino azules y rojos." Y Marcel Duchamp ha dicho: " Me he obligado a mi mismo a contradecirme, para evitar seguir mi propio gusto."

The Cotton Club

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The Cotton Club, watercolor, 8x10" (20x25 cm.) Men picking up cotton in the South in the United States. Hardly a "club". Hombres recogiendo algodon en el sur de Estados Unidos. Dificil de creer que fueran "un club de algodon".

Back to Paris, Centre Pompidou last year with their special show of women artists: Marina Abramovic, has said: "Art must be beautiful"; Louise Bourgois, her autoportrait in 1942, struk me as magnificent. She was saying..."I ought to be doing something else..." Atsuko Tanaka presented a lights costume, too heavy to be worn by itself, must be held from above: "Role Electrique" was a huge success. Based on Virginia Wolf's "A room of one's own", "Une Chambre a soi" was an interesting piece. V. W. had said there were two requirements indispensable for women to create: 500 lb. a year, and a room of one's own. De vuelta en Paris, el Centro Pompidou del ano pasado con su exhibicion of artists.femeninos. ": marina Abramovic ha dicho: "El Arte debe ser maravilloso." Louise Bourgois, su autorretrato en 1942, me llego como magnifico! Ella solia decir: "Yo deberia estar haciendo otra coaa.... Atsuko Tanaka presento un traje de bombillas electricas demasiado pesado para ser usado solo, debe estar suspendido desde arriba: "Role Electrique" fue un exito total. Basado en "Una habitacion para crear aqui en Boqute, fue una pieza interesante. V Wolf habia dicho aque habia dos requisitos para que las mujere comenzaran a crear: una pieza para ellas solas, y 500 libras al ano.

La Casa de Fernanda

La Casa de Fernanda, watercolor, 5x7" (12x17 cm.)


At last year's all female artists show at Centre Pompidou in Paris, "Elles@ Centre Pompidou", the artists and their work that impressed me the most were: Annette Messager's "Les Piques", Magdalena Abranovicz "Abakan Grand Noir" (her obsession with organic life), Valerie Export's "Touch Cinema", Sandra Vasquez de la Norra's pencil drawings, Maja Bajevich's embroidery done on scaffolding in Sarajevo 2000 "Women at Work". En la exhibicion de artistas mujeres del ano pasado en el Centro Pompidou en Paris: "Elles @ Centre Pompidou", las artistas y sus trabajos que mas me impresionaron fueron: "Les Piques" de Annette Messager; la obsesion con la vida organica "Abakan Grand Noir de Magdalena Abranovicz; el "Cine que se toca" de Valerie Export; los dibujos a lapiz de Sandra Vasquez de la Norra; los bordados en andamios en Sarajevo 2000 de Maja Bajevich.

Peregrino

Peregrino, oil on Panamenian coffee bag, 30x22" (75x55cm). I'm in my last few days in Boquete, Panama, going back to California in a few days, and then to the French Pyrenees a few days after that. I feel this painting reflects my state of mind at the moment: Panamenian support (original coffee bag I treated for painting) and a trail in the French Pyrenees in the Fall, where I will be hiking and painting this coming Fall. Estoy en mis ultimos dias en Boquete, Panama, pues vuelvo a California en unos dias, y luego vuelo a los Pirineos franceses unos dias despues. Siento que esta pintura refleja mi estado animico en este momento: El apoyo o la base es Panamena (bolsa de cafe original, que yo trate especialmente para pintarla) y un sendero de los Pirineos franceses, en el otono, donde estare pintando y caminando este otono proximo.