" The Surrealism and The Abstraction are two madder pending for the Artistic Formation of every Painter. As well as always it has been required and valued - and always it will be necessary - a good Academic Preparation where to support with solidity the flight of the Creativity and of the Dreams, of the Deformation of The Figures and of The Objects, today, thanks to The Surrealistic Painters and The Abstract Painters, we are two powerful Artistic Movements of long path to feed and to expand our looks and Artistic Technologies. A picture has to work in all its Pictorial Fragments, for small that these are, in such a way that if we walk ourselves to a span of distance across the Pictorial Surface of the picture we could always To Contemplate PAINTING, and to feel the sublime Plastic Emotion that raises our spirit. This is like that enclosedly in The Pop Painting where a figure of comic " put like a Painting " for Roy Lichtenstein or a Tin of Soup Campbells de Warhol flutters as PAINTING... Because of it The Abstract Painting and The Surrealistic Painting besides of being essential and wonderful in if same, they fulfill today a pedagogic unpayable function for any artist. They have passed already to be a part of the Classic Art and they are An Art Heritage for the Spiritual and Technical Formation of the Artist. They are a gymnastics for the unconscious and for the eye, places where there blow up almost all the sensations and spiritual emotions that lead to constructing finally this immeasurable and grand thing that we are called THE ART of THE PAINTING. "           JOSE MANUEL MERELLO
 

         Merello.- The Surrealism (1977 - 1980) Period.