Categoría: Art
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«Sand In My Eyes» (poetry by Francisco Bravo Cabrera)
SAND IN MY EYES A house by the sea, an Andalusian pony on wet sand, my mother splashing warm water. The border collie panting a smile. High on the cliff, a ledge cut from rock where the horizon held still. Later, the Pyrenees— a dark scrub of boar and oak,…
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Artforms and Artists from Around the World – The photography of Laura Putman
Laura Putman has a lovely nature blog. This is her introduction to her blog: I am humbled by the magnificence and beauty of our planet, it is incomparable. I’ve loved and enjoyed nature since I was a young girl. I’ve been a serious photographer for over a decade. In 2012…
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«SOMEBODY» (poetry by Bodo Vespaciano/OCS Valencia)
SOMEBODY We learned hardnessbefore we learned to be held.Carried our hearts like contrabandunder work shirts,pressed against the bullet.At night, the city lit its yellow rows of glass,silent and accusatory.A woman scrubs copper rustfrom a child’s knuckles.A man sleeps on his stomachto anchor the empty mattress.Forget love as an answer—it is…
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Art Jackpot – Halloween in Confectionary by Robbie Cheadle
Tomorrow is the 1st of October and the beginning of Halloween month. Although Halloween is not celebrated in southern Africa, I have always enjoyed dark and macabre stories and so I love joining in America’s celebrations with all my blogging friends. In anticipating of this terrific month of spooky treats,…
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Different Kinds of Art: Thursday Doors: The Owl House, Nieu Bethesda Part 2
Helen Martins’ Glass House Before creating the sculptures in her garden, Helen Martins decorated the entire inside of her house. Set out below are some interesting facts about her house called The Owl House. Walls made of crushed glass: Helen ground up thousands of glass bottles and used glue to…
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Art Flash – Introducing Dawn Pisturino and her new adult coloring book
Hi everyone, its Robbie Cheadle here today with an Art Flash post on LatinosUSA – English Edition. Today, I’m delighted to introduce Dawn Pisturino, poet and author, who has recently published a colouring book for adults. Tell us a bit about Dawn Pisturino and how you transitioned to a poet…
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«Two Highballs» (poetry by FBC)
TWO HIGHBALLS Two highballs at the tepee barsuspended over hungry halibutsand starfish.Names and dates,and dollar bills on rotting wood,around an image of Popeyegiving us the finger.Playing “she loves me, she loves me not”with the water spots on empty glasses,she then wipes the counter with a humid towel. Empty glass,signal for…
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Famous Artworks – Resa and Robbie: The Impressionists – Manet and Cezanne
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle here with you today with the September post in the Famous Artworks series on LatinosUSA – English Edition. This post is another collaboration with the wonderful Resa McConaghy and features still life paintings by Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne. The photographs of The Tea Set…
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«Black Foam» A Poem by Francisco Bravo Cabrera
BLACK FOAM Stones rose from the sea,pitted and carved with fossils. We floated to shore.Sand burned our feet.We shook off the water.The light scavenged our skin. The broken ceiling still held the chandelier,crystals chiming.Pieces of a martini glass on the floor,one shard etched with our initials Black foam surrounds rocksand…
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Artforms and Artists from Around the World – Welcome Home by Dwight Roth and a review
Dwight Roth is a talented blogger, poet, author and artist. I discovered the post below on his blog and I asked if I could reproduce it here. Dwight provides a photographic step-by-step account of how he created a beautiful picture in pen and ink watercolours. You can find Dwight Roth…
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Book Review by Gary Gautier (editor Francisco Bravo Cabrera)
Mendoza’s Mythic Vision (625 words) Paxtle. A river in central Mexico. An ecosystem. Or in Paulina Mendoza’s small book of that title, an extended, semi-narrative prose poem with a sonnet-sized paragraph per page for effortless flow. Or better yet, a non-linear mythological vision. Habitar y caudal (inhabit and flow). The form alone…
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Yoko Ono an Artist? Hmm…
On Yoko Ono as Art History’s Worst Yoko Ono’s career is the purest case study in how proximity to genuine genius can be laundered into a legacy of its own. Strip away the Beatles connection and what remains is a thin catalogue of nonsense and gestures masquerading as ideas: instructional…
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Art Jackpot – My painting of a wild dog: step-by-step
My mother suggested I paint an African painted wild dog. She knows they are very endangered and she knows I’ve got some very good pictures of wild dogs as I’ve had a few lucky sightings. TC aka hubby dearest, also liked the idea so I found a good photograph and…
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Different Kinds of Art: Thursday Doors: The Owl House, Nieu Bethesda Part 1
Introduction to artist, Helen Martins, and the Owl House Helen Elizabeth Martins in a South African artist who worked with concrete and glass. She installed her elderly and ailing father, who was believed to have been emotionally abusive to his family during her younger years, in an outside room which…
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The «Art» of Having No Art: Yoko Ono.
Yoko Ono: The Worst Artist in the History of Art There are artists whose work challenges us, artists who force us to reconsider what art can be. And then there are artists whose work seems to challenge the very idea that art should require talent, craft, imagination or even execution.…
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«The Man in The Mirror Was Lying» A Poem by Francisco Bravo Cabrera
THE MAN IN THE MIRROR WAS LYING I learned to smile before I learned to tell the truth. I am very good at it: the small theatre of the mouth. I lift my hand in strategic farewells, while I hide my heart somewhere behind the black curtain. Even my shadow…
