JOSE MANUEL MERELLO (ROMA 2010). CONTEMPORARY SPANISH ARTIST.
SPANISH ART. SPANISH ARTISTS.
CURRENT SPANISH ARTISTS.
Spanish Artists. Art From Spain. Contemporary Spanish Art. Mediterranean Expressionism.
Hispanic Art and Artists. Spanish Art Directory. Spanish Artists New. Hispanic Artists.
Spanish artists. Hispanic art. The
light of the Mediterranean through the emptiness of the Castilian plateau towards
the intrepid Atlantic: an explosive mixture mirror of the Spanish Culture.
Sensuality and fineness, air and serene melancholy. Force and passion.
JOSE MANUEL MERELLO (ROMA 2010). CONTEMPORARY SPANISH ARTIST.
Spanish painters, as a whole, are some of the best painters in the world. Perhaps the best. The great and wonderful works by Spanish painters from its beginnings until today form one of the most colossal and reasonable artistic creations in history. Spanish art and Spanish painters have provided the world with works of outstanding beauty and quality. A Spanish painter will always be a Spanish painter. No matter what he paints, when he paints it, and which set of circumstances surround him, he will be entirely immersed in a bath of centuries, mysterious as well as tragic, melancholic, serene and sensual. The same bath that immersed Greco and Velazquez, as well as Cossio, Picasso, Miro, Miralles, Tapies, Broto, Barcelo, …a bath that is unavoidable. All of them palpitate Spain, the mystery of anything Spanish, of Spanish art. None of them, nor any other of the many great Spanish painters can distance themselves from the dense and at the same time light atmosphere of this very old country. Spanish art, its paintings, calls your attention wherever it is. Evidently, art is not nationalist. Art is universal. Therefore, no Spanish painter, American painter o German painter can or should paint according to regionalisms or folklorisms. But even if he tried, a Spanish artist is branded with fire for life: like a bull. Like the branding of the clean look of the black eyes of the Spanish woman.
20
minutes of video with Jose Manuel
Merello's paintings and Spanish guitar music.
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"Horses and children. Fat women, beautiful women and old ladies. The
magicians and poets. Dogs and cats sleeping. Bulls and Spanish bullfighters.
The processions of Seville and Malaga. The crucified Christs
filled with blood and prayers. And the saints. A Virgin for each village.
The sun and the rain of Biscay. The sea, the passion, love and art of the
Mediterranean. Painting and older architecture. And the most
modern. The dances and dances of the villages lost. Literature issued by the
Spanish world. Deep red, purple, black and olive. The balance between the
sun, moon and stars: this is the Spanish art. "
"José Manuel Merello"
How will the art in 2011 and in the near future?
Freedom defines
contemporary art.
International art fairs are fun and intriguing, are challenges for thought
and human emotion.
Walking through a contemporary art fair like ARCO in Madrid, is now a mental
release.
You may think that what we are seeing is not "art", you may think that some
artistic creations are not moral and deduced that are not art.
But you are wrong.
The art does not depend
on morality ever.
No work of art owes nothing to any form of thought or ideology.
The human spirit is free.
Art is free.
The art is beyond
good and evil.
What is necessary is to prevent some forms of art that are violent,
dangerous, dictatorial.
Stop because we need rules for coexistence or because it is ethically
unacceptable.
For example, we can turn the Amazon into a garden empty, naked, with only a
tree.
Sure could
be a work of conceptual art.
But it would be really stupid.
The savagery and brutality can be handled with great skill.
It would not be moral, it might be art, but should not be allowed.
"José Manuel Merello"
Another common mistake for many visitors to ARCO is to think that there can
be only paint.
No. The painting is a very important part of art, but only a part.
Many artists complain that there is very little paint on the contemporary
art fairs.
They have a point, perhaps the art galleries paint should be more exposed
there.
Modern painting or classical paintings are wonderful, a highly evolved form
of art ... but it is not necessary for him.
Of course, many current creations are just ephemeral art, art to think and
meditate for a few minutes.
And
now that's a very interesting difference.
"José Manuel Merello"
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