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                                                        On May 25, 2012 at 07 : 00 P.M.

                                                        The SCAM , Civil Company of Multimedia Authors , present , 

                  The Real-life experience and the work of the Painter Francis MBELLA, one of the last dinosaure of composed painting.

                                                       A Idriss DIABATE film :  " The shortcut to the sun "

       Simulcast of documentary film premiere describing the work of Artist Francis MBELLA on  www.scam.fr

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                Francis MBELLA's Exhibition : "The reflections of color" in Clearwater. FLORIDA, USA_November, 2004

Art faithfully reflects the development of the principal ideas on which knowledge is based but it also records and interprets many items which are very much less clear than those produced by the intellect, though of far lesser importance.

Society and customs change though, and this has to be taken into account as this too, strongly influences how people think and feel.

As reality changes so do the ways we interpret it.

                   Francis MBELLA's Exhibition: "THE COLOUR AND THE FAITH" in UNESCO-Paris, November 2003

                                   UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANISATION

                                                                       ACTION AND THE MEANING OF ART ?

       What then is art, if the idea of beauty which confuses everything, is rejected? In order to define art precisely, you must start by ceasing to consider it a means of pleasure and viewing art instead as one of the condiitions of human life. Considered this way, we can not avoid concluding that art is one of major means men have of communicating with each other.

       All works of art function in this way, the audience, to a certain extent, enters into communication with its creator, and with all others who, before or after him, received or will receive the same artistic impression. Art  functions like words, wich link men together by expressing their thoughts and their experiences. But this means of communication is specific and differs from the word through wich man communicates his thoughts, whereas by art man communicates his feelings. 

   Art operates through the fact that a man who perceives through hearing or through sight the feelings expressed by another man, is able to feel the same things as he who expressed them.

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                          JAZZ CONCERT IN LAUSANNE - SWITZERLAND , "THEATRE DE BEAULIEU", 06 JUNE 2003

              Art is another way of resting from work while indirectly sharing feelings in a social context. It always takes two people for there to be an art experience.. The creator of the work of art and the receiver, who can be a spectator or a listener. The artist creates while the other receives. This is the aspect which is particular to art, in that it is experienced passively; for being entertained through art means having nothing to do, it is enough just to look and listen in order to feel pleasure and to be entertained. That no effort is needed, because the artist is in full control, is exactly what separates artistic activity from activity of other kinds.

                Francis MBELLA, Guest of Honour, with Doctor Gabs and his band, Rhoda Scott and Robert Palmer

FRANCIS MBELLA FASHION SHOW AT THE LOUVRE CARROUSEL IN PARIS IN FAVOR OF CHILDREN AFFECTED BY SICK CELL - DECEMBER 2003

  And art had always allowed one to follow the visible tracesof thought processes, it now seems clear it can do more even than that. It is the traces of the whole interior life of the spirit which it can give form to. Previously man thought merely in a clear and rational way and art was often reduced nearly to illustrating it. Now after the long journey along the road of individualism, man is fascinated by what till than had escaped him, everithing beyond the relatively exclusive boundaries which respect for reason alone had enclosed him in.

               This loose vague world in which interior life finds all of its opportunities even at an early unconscious level is his and that of our time as well.

                And in the new traces it follows driven to find unknown riches art becomes his official companion the only one able to adapt to all circumstances and unexpected expressions which doubtless accounts for the increasingly important role it plays in today's intellectual life.

                Art use to be attempted to be explained trrought society whereas it is art itself which really explains how that society feels and develops and functions. Art used to be considered an ornament, an accessory to social life which is true but it would be more useful by far to analyse its real purpose and function in our society.

               Art is the best way of allowing the unconscious to speak.