(“If I were a dictator in Spain, I would forbid the bullfights. But as I am not, I don’t miss one!”)
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Well, I think it is a very funny and honest way to tell a certain truth which many people try to hide…
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“Toro 2010″: new bullfight paintings – #2
May 26, 2008 — Miki
“Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.”
Erica Jong (American writer and feminist, 1942)
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I find this quote very funny, somehow, without saying if I agree or not!… and I wonder which is the circus of my country, France… any idea?
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“Toro 2010″: new bullfight paintings – #1
May 23, 2008 — Miki
I am interrupting my series Fantascapes to show you what my life has been like these last weeks… I had unfortunately no much time to visit even my own blog and to thank you all for all the wonderful comments and poems you wrote. They all deeply touched me, and even more the fact too that you kept coming, although I was rather absent myself.
As I told it already in Cafe Crem:
About 6 months ago I have been contacted by a big printing company from Eastern Europa. They had found my bullfight paintings on the net, and approached me by mail in the following way::
“Hello Miki,
you are unable to understand how happy I am to finally find some images for our calendar title. The idea of this calendar is because the next year following to chinese will be bull year. so we have decided to have calendar of corrida, but it was very difficult to find some good paintings for it. Please let me know, if you have enough images for calendar title – i need 12 or 13 paintings. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE… “
Of course I accepted. The calendar being sold in 9 different countries, it could not be a better chance for me! I got a contract for 2009 and 2010, and I delivered my first 13 paintings in October 2007. The 2009 calendar is about to be published now and will appear in July in big stores all over Europe.
I must deliver the next 13 paintings for the 2010 calendar on the 1st of September this year, and as we will be travelling a lot, and even definitely moving to Kevin’s place here, and me even opening a new gallery, I won’t have time later on to make these paintings. And this is why, since we arrived here, I have taken the cape again and spend my days fighting the bulls…
Above, one of the paintings I did 2 weeks ago for the calendar 2010. I have finished now the 13 ones, and I am really happy about it, as I started to get quite nervous surrounded by all these aggressive beasts…
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Fantascape #17 : Fire and Ice
May 18, 2008 — Miki
A more realistic fantascape, almost still life…
it might have been before the trees started to take human form and invade our world
at a time when ice and fire
were not parted by physical laws…
Fantascape #16 : Bird of Hope
May 13, 2008 — Miki
And when all seems lost and dark in your life
just look up to the sky
and a bird of hope
might appear
illuminating your world
with rainbow colours
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Fantascape #15 : Love in The Mountains
May 9, 2008 — Miki
For me the world definitely stopped to look “real” the day Susan Cornelis and me decided to see it through the magic glasses of our fantasy…
lines and shapes and colours and shadows and lights
eternally embraced
in my French romanticism…
Escape into Susan’s Fantascape # 8
Fantascape #14 : Queen’s Call
May 5, 2008 — MikiAbout 2 months ago , Susan Cornelis and me started the series Fantascapes. The idea came as I was painting blossoming almond trees here, in Spain, because the almond trees, sometimes, look so much like figures.
A little later, while Kevin and me were travelling to El Cabo de Gata (Spain, Provincia de Almeria) I had the idea to extend the Fantascapes to the sea, calling them Fantaseas… by the way, a wonderful wordplay on the word Fantasy, don’t you think so?…
There I looked at the sea, at the rock formations, and here is what came out… as you can see, not only the trees look like figures, if you have enough free fantasea…
Fantascape #13 : Stranger in the Night
May 2, 2008 — Miki
Who is that stranger sitting on the hill tonight, in front of my window?
(the one in the house with the little tower…)
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