Back to The Bulls

So, I am back in my acrylic atelier for a wild Spanish fiesta… have been painting the bulls again fro 3 days now, I am a big mess, all covered in paints, these beast are really wild! When the bulls catch me, they don;t let me go for a little while, until I am exhausted. So I guess I will stay with them some more days in my rainbow atelier, but will also do some  bullfight paintings in water colour, which I rarely did in fact, most of them being in acrylic and gouache.

A special word for those who hate bullfight: I understand you, but the best would be for you and for me, that you skip this post!  :-)

Acrylic - 100 x 50 cm - by Miki

And for those who love bullfight and wish to buy a print, here you go:

_available in many different sizes and on different supports like Fine Art paper or canvas)

Sell Art Online

Like a Bull in an Artshop

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I have added today some bullfight paintings and other stuff to my new online shop Miki’s Mart.

It is not easy to make a choice, what to put for sale, and what not. Tastes are so different! And I have had the experience in my life that my taste often does not correspond to the clients’ taste. or at least there is a time difference… what I most like today my clients will like most in about 2 years!

I have often wondered about this phenomena, as I have heard the same from other artists.

I was asking myself if the artist is always  ahead of his clients’ time…

Anyway, among all my bullfight paintings, and as a contradiction to the theory I just presented and the aim that a shop which should be to sell what what people want to buy,  I chose to put for sale this one above, which is my most favourite bullfight painting of all time!

Back Fighting The Bulls…

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I will have soon “to fight the bulls ‘ again, so i have started yesterday  to practise again, always on the search of new bullfighting techniques…

I have painted that one today, a quite complicated mixed technique!

By the way, if you are still  interested in my bullfight calendar 2009, or already in the new calendars 2010, or in my bullfight mugs, simply got to

my bullfighting art site

The Toroscapes

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One would not believe it, but judging by the quantity of hits on my bullfight post on this blog and of  enquiries I personally receive in my mailbox:

there is a big market for Bullfight paintings around the world!

A friend of mine from the U.S.A., who is trying to help me market my calendars there, wrote to me:

“… One thing to remember is that America is a microcosm of many different people, styles and tastes…no different than any place else really, except here we do have a lot of special interest groups, and lobbyists for special needs. The Animal Rights groups are very powerful and influence a lot of laws and perceptions. Bull Fighting items of any kind will be difficult to mass market….the cultural climate is not conducive…”

Well, this is certainly true in Europe too, and even more so where I live. But I have my very own experience in this matter and I answered to him that what people publicly follow is one thing and what they then privately do is quite another.  I have said many times: I sold many bullfight paintings to people who hate bullfighting! I think this says a lot…

Anyway, I have decided to create a new website entirely dedicated to my Bull and Bullfight Art, simply called

T O R O

And to inaugurate it, I started a new series of bullfight paintings, from the “Scapes Family”, called

The Toroscapes.

Like the others Scapes, a mixed technique of classical and digital art.

Like always, “only” available as Giclee prints… an amazing printing technique by the way, the results are really fascinating, so true in colours, details and structure… and with the huge advantage that you can get them in different sizes and on different formats, canvas even!

With this new website I have also opened a new blog, dedicates to the Bulls. You are very welcome to join me there, to comment or even become a co-author. And honestly, I would love to meet some people with whom I can speak about the bulls!

English, French, Spanish and German languages are welcome!

Busy Busy…

Sorry, my friends… No time to blog right now, I am preparing 2 big exhibitions, all together about 80 paintings. The exhibiting artists will know what a work that means!

The first one will start on Wednesday in Vera (Spain, Almeria). I will exhibit there bigger acrylics paintings on canvas, characterized by strong colours (as always I guess!) and structures.

The other one will start on Friday, in the culture centre of Moajcar (Spain, Almeria). The main theme will be bullfight paintings.

Both exhibitions are meant to introduce me in that area, as we are moving there right now. I will open a new gallery/atelier in Turre   (Spain, Almeria) in October, so you see, still much work to come!

Please visit my new website:

T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart

“Toro 2010″: new bullfight paintings – #13

“Si nuestro teatro tuviese el temblor de las fiestas de toros, sería magnífico. Si hubiese sabido transportar esa violencia estética, sería un teatro heroico como La Iliada… Una corrida de toros es algo muy hermoso”
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

(Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist, 1866 – 1936)

(“If only our theatre had the shivering of the bullfight feasts, it would be wonderful. If it only knew how to transport that aesthetic violence, it would be a heroic theatre, like the bullfight arena. A bullfight is something very beautiful.”)

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Please visit my new website:

T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart

“Toro 2010″: new bullfight paintings – #12

“Existe una identidad entre el amor y el arte, en ninguno de los dos cabe la voluntad.”
Juan Belmonte (Spanish Bullfighter, 1892-1962)

(“There is a common identity between love and art: there is no place for the will in either.”)

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As a passionate artist and a passionate lover, I can only agree and add:

I am a faithful servant of art and love, and this is my freedom.

Please visit my new website:

T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart

“Toro 2010″: new bullfight paintings – #11

“En el toreo hay que hundirse con cadencia, en contraste con el baile, que es elevarse.”
Fernando Domínguez (who ever he is :-) )

(“In bullfight art, one must immerse oneself in cadence, as opposed to the art of ballet, where one must elevate oneself!”)

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Well, it seems quite the contrary to me, here!

Please visit my new website:

T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart

“Toro 2010″: new bullfight paintings – #10

“El toreo es un acto de fe: en el arte, en el juego, en Dios.”
José Bergamín (Spanish writer and poet, 1895 – 1983}

(“Bullfight is an act of faith: faith in the art, in the game and in God.”)

Please visit my new website:

T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart

“Toro 2010″: new bullfight paintings – #9

“Si los espectáculos cultos ponen ante mis ojos un mundo de inmoralidad y una exuberancia de lujo que ciega mis ojos al tocar al corazón, hoy tengo derecho a mis corridas de toros.”
Antonio Peña y Goñi (Spanish composor, music critic and bullfight critic, 1846 – 1896 )

(“If the modern spectacles present me with a world of amorality and an exuberance of luxury which blinds my eyes and pierces my heart, then I have the right to my bullfights!”)

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Considering the era in which he lived, his quote is strangely prophetic and I can only agree wiht it.

Please visit my website:

T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart

And if you are interested in buying prints of my bullfight paintings, they are available on paper or canvas, in many different sizes, just click on the widget below

Photography Prints

 

And more generally you can see all this stuff I paint by going to my gallery “Miki’s Enchanted World”

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