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 "Art History is the emotional and spiritual History of humankind.  It is a retelling of its most sublime feelings materialized in works of art that transcend time.  Altamira and Lascaux are primitive examples of this human desire of expressing its emotions.  In my opinion, there is not one artistic era superior to another one in its initial impetus to create material proof of an emotion or a spiritual pleasure.  On the other hand, I do believe there have been art eras superior to others since the human being improved its technique.   In the same way that scientific progress always goes up, artistic progress, which needs technology to advance, grows in an upwards line.  However, this line is not continuous, since it depends on two factors: technique and spiritual emotion.  Art is not just a feeling.  Art is the feeling being materialized, incarnated, sculpted, written with skill and technique.  Cavemen had only a few tools at their reach; consequently their art is more primitive than Baroque Art, to give an example.  The problem stems from the fact that technique and emotion do not always move along parallel lines.  As a result, we can sometimes find art periods with a greater and purer emotional and spiritual impulse, even though they relied on an inferior technique.  On the other hand, we sometimes find other periods with better mediums, in which art is weaker due to the human soul being soured, repressed, or manipulated.   When the human spirit undergoes a sublime and free period, accompanied by a superior technique, then we will refer to this period as a Golden Art Age, like art in the 21st century."  JOSE MANUEL MERELLO.

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"Everybody asks themselves what art is. I think that art is any human creation that is able to lift the spirit to a higher plain of emotion and wonderment. "

      

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21st CENTURY ART. ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. PAINTING. Merello.-Big Orange Arm. Mixed Media

 

   

         José Manuel Merello. Artists of the 21st Century
 
 

CONTEMPORARY ART. Painting in the 21st Century. 21 CURRENT PAINTING. 21st MODERN ART 21. CURRENT ARTISTS 21. 

21st CENTURY ART. ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. PAINTING. Sevillian Bullfighter. (92x73 cm) Mixed Media.

  

21st CENTURY ART. ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. PAINTING. Merello.- Last Smoker. (73x54 cm) Mixed Media.
   
   

ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. 21st CENTURY ART.  PAINTING. Merello.- The Comedian. Oil Painting.

 

ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. 21st CENTURY ART.  PAINTING.Merello.-Girl Playing with her Hair. (92x73 cm) Mixed Media painting.

 
   
   

ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. 21st CENTURY ART.  PAINTING. Merello.- Flowers from Africa (65x50 cm) Mixed Media.

 

ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. 21st CENTURY ART.  PAINTING.Merello.- Modern Still Life. Oil Painting
   
   

ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. 21st CENTURY PAINTING.  PAINTERS. Merello.- Yellow Bullfighter. Oil Painting.

 

ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. 21st CENTURY PAINTING.  PAINTERS. Merello.- Russian Poet. Oil Painting.

 

 

CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE 21ST CENTURY. MODERN ART.

 

ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. 21st CENTURY PAINTING.  PAINTERS.

  

ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. 21st CENTURY PAINTING.  PAINTERS. Children drawing.
     

ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. CURRENT CENTURY PAINTING.  PAINTERS. Transparent Girl.

  

ARTISTS OF THE 21st CENTURY. CURRENT CENTURY PAINTING.  PAINTERS. Modern Nude.
 

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Thoughts of a painter.

"A good drawing does not in any way compare unfavourably with a good painting. It is more the case that beneath every picture is an essential underlying drawing that sustains it, a skeleton that mobilises it and gives it form. Any painting lacking this base crumbles and appears flimsy.”

"Everybody asks themselves what art is. I think that art is any human creation that is able to lift the spirit to a higher plain of emotion and wonderment."

“…being a painter, a writer, a sculptor or a musician does not put one at a higher rank than any other profession. There are a lot of professions that, when carried out to the extreme, without a doubt achieve a higher level than that of the majority of artists. For instance, a wonderful craftsman, a maker of Manila shawls, can go further than a mediocre sculptor; the work can be superior. Or a great soccer player can raise greater passion than most of us, painters. To be an “artist” does not guarantee anything. However, sometimes a genius is born in a way that distinguishes the great arts, along with science, philosophy or politics, from any other endeavor. We cannot compare Michael Angelo’s Sixteen Chapel or Newton’s Law of Gravitation with the most amazing soccer goal. Art with capital letters is easy to detect; its light continues to shine through time.”
 

“ I am not a vanguard artist.  My art is contemporary, literally speaking: a product of its times.  Vanguard, on the contrary, represents the most innovative – neither better nor worse; like the sharp point of a spear which opens up new paths.  However, that sharp point needs all the power and weight of the rest of the spear, the weight of Art History.  Without all this History, there is no push to open up new ways.  Vanguard Art represents freshness, novelty, surprise, the truth and the fake, a risky and fascinating bet.  However, what intrigues me is to draw from the classic and contemporary traditions, to deepen into the walked path, and to remain vigilant – like many other artists – to provide vanguard artists with a solid foundation.  Much in the same way as an older brother holds his youngest brother’s hand with fascination as the intrepid child peeks, with wonderful daring and no fear, into the abyss.  I need to keep an eye on the Vanguard Movement because it keeps me young as an artist, it cleanses me, it clears up my spirit so that my view doesn’t sour.  I am a part of the body of the spear and, from that vantage point, I observe with fascination the young sharp art poking at the same time as I draw from the magnificent work of the masters of all times, the powerful legacy that sustains us.  I am not part of the sparkles – sometimes ephemeris – of the spearhead.  Each one of us has his role, and mine, nowadays, is not in the vanguard."  JOSÉ MANUEL MERELLO.

"A painter is always able to imagine a lot more than what is able to create. In his dreams it is able to see incredible paintings, drawings and colors that are no longer possible to the awakening. The reality is a lot but scanty that what is reached to glimpse in dreams, by means of hallucinogens or in conscience altered states. And being this way this, on what did consist, oh my God, the dreams of Velázquez?, what is there further on? It is difficult to imagine nothing else sublime, nothing else perfect. Maybe it is that to him, to Velázquez, advantaged as anybody for the muses, they allowed him to paint the reality from the veiled vapor of the dreams."

                                                                                                            

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