Cuevas and Botero by Thirion (Third part)
The most insufferable people are men who think they are great and women who think they are irresistible (Asselin, Henry)
Cuevas and Botero by Thirion (III)
Albert Thirion
The Lord of the Earth Work in oil pastels, by Alberto Thirion
Mrs.
Raquel Tibol naturally seems to be very aware of this situation between
Cuevas and Botero, when she says, as Jose Luis himself writes in his
"Cuevario"" about
me, he says that I am already old and therefore it is reprehensible
that I continue to behave like a teenager. Then he says that what I said
about Botero is the result of the envy I have for his constant
successes. I have already said it on occasion: my relationship with this
criticism has always oscillated between affection and hatred " .
In
the interview that Cristina Pacheco published in her book "La Luz de
Mexico", Botero tells Cristina that Botero is his real name and that he
likes her, among other things, because in Spain Pedro Botero is the
devil.
It seems that it is so, here is something about Pedro Botero.
The boilers of Pedro Botero".
Kunst & Ambiente Modern Art - Bronze sculpture - Mona Lisa, signed Fernando Botero - Botero statue The name of Pedro Botero, is a way of naming the devil
and consequently the hell that would be his enormous boiler, hence the
expression Pedro Botero's boilers related to his flaming, physical and
real hell.
There
is no clear origin for the expression "Pedro Botero's boilers", also
called Pedro Gotero, Perogotero, Pedro Botello by various writers in the
Golden Age in various literary works
One of the first quotes in known authors is in the «Religious Comedies» by Tirso de Molina (1583-1648):
Santa: Me, brother? Does it say?
Gil:
If you allow my Marica to return home healthy, the devils go to the
alcrebite (an unusual expression for sulfur), where Pedro Botero beats
them in his cauldron, I'll be happy.
Santa: Who am I to do such a big thing?
Llorente: She can get them out; [...]
Covarrubias
and other authors give etymologies, but they seem clearly invented and
refer to a character who was able to cook many Moorish heads (typical). And
others say that Pedro Botero is synonymous with the devil because he,
like him, is involved with the pitch (obviously he is supposed to be
talking about the pitch that is used to line the inside of wine casks).
Greetings
Who
and why, plunged art into ignominy, into the shame in which it now
finds itself, art in the past in its great eras like that of the Italian
Renaissance was a kind of priesthood for spiritual development, today
it is the art of the fame and the wealth the one that to seated his real
ones, the inconsequential and alienated art, accompanied by the
publicity and the marketing is the king.
Cuevas
says in his book "Cuevas por Cuevas" that he was discovered and
supported by José Gómez Sicre, I find this in this biography" Very
shortly after, he receives an invitation from the critic José Gómez
Sicre and exhibits his work again, this time at the Pan American Union
in Washington DC"
Here it is;
Jose Gomez Sicre
Cuba (¿?) Art critic and cultural official. He
made José Luis Cuevas' first exhibition abroad possible, by inviting
him to appear at the headquarters of the Pan American Union in
Washington, DC in 1954. he Author of numerous articles on the artist's
career.
Gomez Sicre was the one who made it possible, and he came from Washington.
The artistic quality no longer depends on the artist but on the promoter.
Luis Carlos Emerich tells us frankly, and he also tells us;3. José
Luis Cuevas is considered the initiator of the Ruptura, but only for
having established himself as a public figure at an early age, after
acquiring notoriety in 1956 for his Childhood exhibition and for the publication of his text “La Cortina de Nopal” in the Culture in Mexico supplement of the newspaper Novedades,
directed by Fernando Benítez since 1949 and significant for bringing
together writers, critics and artists who constituted modernity at the
time. In his article, Cuevas ridiculed the Mexican School; The
substitution of Soviet iron for the very Mexican nopal not only
referred to the confinement itself but also to the Stalinist orientation
of its main spokesman, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and that of hundreds of
artists who followed the unique route for art declared by the muralist
in 1945.
Success is easy to obtain. The hard part is deserving it. (Albert Camus)
But how is this? I thought that Cuevas was also a communist like his idol, Picasso.
But
here is something very interesting, in this investigative journalism
article that I am now writing for the sole purpose of knowing my
environment better and sharing with you the results of my
investigations.
UNAM
art professor Silvia Fernandez Hernandez tells us in her brilliant
article on Santa Barraza. That while in Mexico Cuevas and Vicente Rojo,
among the most outstanding, boasted of proclaiming that the Mexican
school of painting had died, and that only the abstract art made sense,
the Chicano art movement takes up Mexican mural painting.
How curious isn't it? why will it be?
Raquel
Tibol "Living legend of Mexican art" recently honored commented;
(Raquel Tibol also spoke of the supposed enmities that she has reaped
due to her peculiar temperament): "If you read José Luis Cuevas, in his Cuevario , you will find the best insults that have dedicated, and we are very good friends. I
slapped Siqueiros in the face and I didn't go back to his house because
I didn't want to, because he invited me to come back, so I've had a
life with sharp peaks, that's why it occurred to them to say that I'm a
legend, but I'm an 84-year-old being, working, with two children, two
granddaughters, and the world moves on”.
And
later on, the journalist from "La Jornada" adds; The exhibition,
installed in the single-theme room on the second floor of the Munal,
brings together the largest production on Mexican and Latin American art
written by Tibol over 40 years: 69 publications made from from 1961; 42
photographs from 1953 to 2007, in which the writer can be seen with
Fidel Castro, Diego Rivera, Juan O'Gorman, Manuel Álvarez Bravo and
Valentín Campa, among other characters, as well as letters from artists
addressed to Raquel Tibol, some of their prizes and an audiovisual.
Apparently all his friends are people from the most grandiose of the left.
In
the first part of these writings, the journalist who writes "Between
Cuevas and Botero" says that they are parallel works, but recently
Botero took sides against the Yankees, with his series of works on the
Iraq War, with his series on Abu Ghraib, against torture.
Right? Well, as far as I can understand.
RECREATION OF HORROR. When
Botero saw the images of the excesses of US troops with Iraqi
prisoners, he could not help but reflect, through one of his arts,
painting, the horror that it caused him.
Revolution Magazine asks
Revolution: How did you decide to paint these pictures about the torture at Abu Ghraib?
Fernando Botero: The whole world was in a state of shock when the American press exposed the torture of Iraqis in the Abu Ghraib prison. I read about it in the New Yorkerin a famous Seymour Hersh article. I was shocked, hurt and furious, like everyone else. The more I read, the more I felt motivated and angry, upset. A few months later I was on a plane back to Paris when I read about that tragedy again. I took a pencil and a notebook and began to draw. When I got to my studio in Paris I kept drawing and painting. It became a kind of obsession that lasted 14 months. I was just working on it and just thinking about it. Suddenly, I felt emptied, as if I had nothing more to say about it. I felt at peace. For some reason I found peace. But
for months I felt this desire to say something, because for me it was a
huge violation of human rights and the United States has been a model
of compassion and a model of human rights, and it goes and commits that
violation. That is the greatest damage that has been done to the image of this country. This
morning I spoke with an Argentine journalist and she informed me that
today only 6% of Argentines approve of what the United States does, when
three or four years ago 70% approved. The same thing is happening all over the world. I'm surprised more artists haven't done something about it because it's a huge thing that's not going to go away. It is something to remember. I did it as a kind of testimony. I'm surprised more artists haven't done something about it because it's a huge thing that's not going to go away. It is something to remember. I did it as a kind of testimony. I'm surprised more artists haven't done something about it because it's a huge thing that's not going to go away. It is something to remember. I did it as a kind of testimony. Sure, I know I'm not going to change anything, art doesn't have that power. But at least I have given testimony of what happened. I couldn't keep quiet. The power of art is to bring something to mind and I hope my art does that.
To
conclude with this already extensive article, I will only say that I
totally agree with the great masses who watch soccer, movies and TV,
etc. I advise you to
continue to stay on the sidelines as far as possible from the alienated
culture of our days, what do artists like Cuevas or Botero give us? How do they enrich our spirit? What are they for? I say Cuevas and Botero because this article is dedicated to them, but that is just the same: Pollock, Warhol, Malevich, and many others.
In
short and to conclude, neither Cuevas nor Botero contribute anything
new, their works are inconsequential, that there are many fat people, we
all know it, obesity is a major public health problem, who doesn't
know? Above all, there are many miserable, many forgotten, we all know
it anyway, I discovered two important things "The Lord of the Earth" and
"The Death of the Devil", of which my works give faithful testimony, so
for my historical contribution the most successful artist the most
famous is me, Alberto Thirion, in reality Google is well informed indeed
I Alberto Thirion am the most famous painter, as the computer says, the
second is Jose Luis Cuevas and the third and last is Fernando Botero .
Time will finally put things in their place.
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