Unfinished oil painting, a detail. A white horse's head, after the one in "Napoleon Crossing the Alps", by David.
"Si juego a la brisca pierdo / Si juego al cané no gano / Si juego a las treinta y una / tengo treinta y dos de mano"
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Oil painting. Expressionist, bright colours and distorted shapes. Some kitchen furnishing: a washing machine, a wooden worktop with an embedded metallic sink and draining rack (a yellow and green scouring sponge and an orange kitchen cloth laying over). The wardrobe under the sink is wide open. Inside one can see some piping and a few bottles of cleaning products. A blue plastic litter bin sticks out besides the open door. Both the floor and the walls are tiled: red and pink squares on the floor and light green on the walls.
Reverdinaciendo
2010, oil on canvas, 130 x 130cm.
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"How significant is the fact that Tony Blairs involved in discussions about a post war Gaza?"
Ash Sarkar : "Well I guess it's because Satan was unavailable"
Oil painting, figurative, expressionist. Bright lively colours and distorted shapes. A nocturnal urban landscape occupies the topmost half of the picture, dominated by a massive lit street lamp and a common wall gecko strongly stuck to a brick wall, next to a drainpipe. Also a traffic light, roofs, windows and a green sky. Moving through two green wooden windows, the painting takes us on its lower part from the street outside towards the inside of a bedroom, showing some woodblock floor and the shoulder of a sleeping person inside a bed with checkered sheets and pillowcase.
Por los rincones metío (soleá)
2010, oil on burlap, 114 x 162 cm.
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Bright colours and deconstructed shapes. Somewhere between expressionism and cubism, just a couple of steps before abstraction (I know, Dada has been already there). An old (it really wasn't old back then) wooden-like cigarette vending machine. A ventilation grid in the upper side, buttons with tobacco brands, and a shouting mouth as the coin return box. Inside the pick-up tray there's a pack with a tiny stick-man. The backlighted screen for ads is covered with glued scraps of a teared-down Rage Against the Machine poster (some letters, a hand holding a gun, a boy's face). At the upper right corner of the painting there's some other red stained letters (also taken from the same poster): "again".
Reificación (su tabaco, gracias)
1997, oil and collage on burlap, 97 x 114 cm.
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Expressionist. Bright colours, loose and free brush strokes, even close to action painting. Some drippings too. The raw jute surface (only partially covered with priming or paint) is visible everywhere. A seated male figure, naked. Arms crossed in front of the chest, one of them holding up a leg. One foot can be seen, the other scapes through the bottom of the painting. No figurative background, just abstract colour shapes, stains and lines (most of the body lies over a big red pond). Some capital letters, barely readable, are written on the upper right corner, almost an incomplete graffiti: VIVA ZA(pata) CABR(ones!).
VIVA ZA...CABR...
1997, Oil on burlap, 97 x 146 cm
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Self-portrait, expresionist, bright colours and loose brush strokes. A young naked male croaching on a small mattress in fetal position. The mattress, covered with a green checkered blanket, rests right on the floor. On the background a tiny metal framed window, a brazier table with a CD player on it, a chair and a desk, also with many other things on it. Some of those are easy to identify (an ashtray, a white mug, a lamp) and some others are just blurred colour ponds. A reproduction of one of Van Gogh's self-portraits hangs on the wall and papers and cigarette packets lie scattered all around over the red tiled floor.
Interior, calle México
1997, oil on burlap, 114x130 cm
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Nightly urban landscape. Expresionist, disorted shapes and bright colours. Buildings, roofs, windows, empty streets against a cloudy deep dark sky. On the background, two peculiar buildings stand out among the rest: a bell tower (quite similar to the Cathedral of Salamanca) and a red and white striped smoke stack (Aboño thermal power station, a childhood memory)
Exterior, calle México
1997, oil on canvas, 97x146 cm.
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#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...
A chart didn't make it into the piece — ICE has arrested >1,000 toddlers since 2023
Not a single European country responded to the SOS of a sinking metal boat carrying 50 people including children. Were it not for Sea Watch, they would have drowned.
Europe doesn’t need a Trump. This is already the norm.
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While we’re distracted from the genocide in Gaza by being forced to defend free speech in the UK, Israel is accelerating its ethnic cleansing of the West Bank
Here are the skills and guides you need for the moment. Feel free to share other resources in the comments. Give 'em hell and stay safe! #Resist #Protest #Antifascism
Two new prints for the Socialism Conference in Chicago this weekend!
My opinion on the Bob Vylan / Kneecap controversy is that the IDF just bombed a seafront café
Spend less time mocking the people in front of you or behind you in line for the slaughterhouse and more time figuring out how to burn it down.
Palestine Action become terrorists for graffitying RAF planes
Glastonbury performers are accused of hate for opposing war
And it is now legal for the UK government to assist another government committing a genocide.
All under a Labour government
the connection to capitalism is even simpler: no matter what propaganda is circulating, you and your neighbors - even the ones you think are most different from you - definitely share problems.
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
Part of an ongoing series of linocut Lotería cards. La Máscara is a closeup of Subcomandante Marcos' eyes, with his balaclava. A new print from Fernando Martí!
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One of my favorite facts about the Stonewall riots is that Seymour Pine, the police commander of the initial raid, literally wrote the WWII u.s. army manual on hand-to-hand combat and the queers still kicked his ass.
¿Y si la represión de la homosexualidad no fuera un residuo del pasado, sino una tecnología activa del poder burgués?
¿Y si la “liberación sexual” fracasó porque nunca tocó la raíz del problema?
👉 Hegemonía sexual, de Christopher Chitty. 🧵
Zionism: A People Reborn
- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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Crow holding a match with a flame: Why are culture and art important while the world is burning? The world has been burning since 1492. Since then, art and culture have been crucial for creating a sense of belonging, spreading radical ideas, resisting empire, imagining new worlds, building community, connecting us across difference and helping you find your murder.
“art might not topple empires but it will inspire those who do." ~ from a dear friend of @joyfulcarla.bsky.social
Who could have thought that putting a demented toddler in charge of the most devastating military power of the world would have devastating consequences
#OtD 19 Jun 1931 socialist activist, Akiva Orr, was born. Politicised during a seamen's strike, Aki co-founded Israeli anti-Zionist socialist group, Matzpen. Aki's account of the seamen's strike is in our podcast on Anti-Zionism in Israel workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/16/e...
We are running a new campaign to support our siblings in Gaza. Donate $5 or more to a Gazan fundraiser, and send a receipt and a mailing address to MovementStickers at Proton døt me and we will send you a Free Palestine sticker pack! You can do this AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT!!!
