100 Contemporary Art Paintings. José Manuel Merello, Painter. Buy Contemporary Painting. Drawing, Color, Texture. Prices of the Artworks.

BLACK IS WHITE.

There are painters, decorators, illustrators, designers...who deny the use of black because they believe it detracts from color or makes it dirty. And yet they do not deny white.
They do not realize that in truth, mathematically, physically, or however you want to see it, the color black is just another shade of white. It is, in short, just another white. In the infinite scale of grays that goes from the most extreme white to the deepest black, where can we draw a fragile line that states that black begins at that point?
It is absurd and, from my experience as a painter, I can say that black is completely essential in the formation of an infinity of colors. Apart from a referee that coordinates them in extraordinary harmonies. Exactly like white.
For me it is very clear. Black is white.

© José Manuel Merello

THE COLOR LIVES.

Acquiring a painting is, finally, buying an idea embodied on a canvas, board or paper. But in painting, acquiring an idea is being able to have the technique, texture, drawing and color that make it possible. Buying the unique, original, piece will always be above any reproduction or digital file. It is incomparable to have before you the flat echo of a painting that the painting gestated and latent in all its procedure. Painting is a pictorial surface with all that that implies: process, minimal turbulence, impastos, corrections, a hidden internal gestation, different brightness, different results of light, texture and color depending on the viewing angle... none of this offers a reproduction or a poster, that is why being able to have the original work will always mean being able to live with it day by day, talk and live with it, as with the loved one, alive and changing, and not with its static memory in a photography.

© José Manuel Merello

Art and Nature.

If you go out into the countryside and look at the meadows, and the rivers, the trees and the paths, the distant mountains under the blue sky, rest assured, you are not looking at art. If a starry night bewitches you with its infinite beauty and unfathomable mystery, no, you are not seeing art. Next to the most beautiful woman in the world, close to her throbbing perfume, the warmth of her body and the moisture of her trembling lips under sparkling eyes, you will feel desire, passion, but you will not feel art.
Beauty is not art. Passion is not art.
Art is not nature. Art is man molding nature, the beautiful and the ugly, by means of the most refined technique; art is nature through man.

© José Manuel Merello

Modern Art. Modern Paintng.

Contemporary Art

The color, the impasto, the pictorial gesture, the drawing....PAINTING.

The Old Art of Painting

Man and Painting; an indissoluble association, there is no one without the other, since the dawn of time.

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Drawing

The basis of painting, the Drawing, the bones where the flesh of color rests.

SURREALISM AND DALÌ-MAGRITTE EFFECT.

That my painting is not surrealistic? From the moment a vase does not rest on a table but gravitates, or that the hat I place on a woman is a sunset sun, I am doing surrealism. Better or worse, but surrealism. What a bore and what a nonsense that surrealist painting has to be chewy, licky, with always soft gradients and conjuror's tricks that hide asses in apples or cross his women with vaporous veils of mermaids and nuclear flashes of symphonic planets. No, the weight of Salvador Dalì and René Magritte, among others, is too powerful among many dirty painters who did not know how to understand them and who abuse their legacy by distorting and weakening it, turning a form of surrealism into an obligatory technique. Sometimes I am a surrealist, but I am also an expressionist, and I go for popart if I feel like it in some corner of the painting. I can paint a surrealist picture without abandoning my technique or my expressionist style, or I can be pop with rough colors and without repetitions of marylins and half-assed Velazquez meninas: I do whatever I want. Today painting is a powerful legacy inherited from centuries, free and open, and from it each painter takes what he likes and needs. Without technical fundamentalism.
Down with the dictatorships of the planetary and the fantastic, of the monstrous, the radical minimal, of popart always soupy and phosphorous, and down with the hyperrealism of eternal train tracks and the impressionism of loose touch by the nose. Fortunately, every now and then a painter of the stature of Edward Hopper, for example, appears and cleans all painting and its technique of so much mediocrity and pretensions, until it is left naked and crystalline, in its purest essence and actuality, in the purest Alfred Hitchcock style. And free.

.© José Manuel Merello

I D E A S...

The art of buying ART.
A new world.

The acquisition of contemporary art has taken an unsuspected turn until just a few years ago. If Claude Monet had been told 120 years ago that his water lilies and brilliant landscapes could be seen on high-quality screens from anywhere in the world and, furthermore, bought and collected from the sofa in a house with just a few clicks, he would have thought it was a bad joke. No one in their right mind is ahead of such paradigm shifts, no one except the crazy ones or the visionaries who generate such changes when technology allows. But in addition to technology, it must be allowed by the public, who must naturally assume the more than real possibility of said advance, the comfortable and safe act of buying, at whatever price, objects of all kinds, from a car, to a house or the most valuable art. This internalized trust as something normal, as a habitual market process, has also cost decades of assimilation by citizens since the appearance of the Internet. Before that, everything was analog and required a meticulous and face-to-face examination of the object, artistic in this case, its confirmation of a real thing and not a virtual one, and of course an ancient payment method that has nothing to do with bank gateways or the transfers that we currently use on the Internet. It could be said that the charm of direct sales has been lost, the exchange between seller and buyer, the direct appreciation of the painting, of the car, of the vacation home that we will go to in the summer, but nothing has been lost , these options continue being there, there is only profit, there are only new and fabulous tools to be able to comfortably buy anything. Scams and frauds have always existed and the argument that everything is worse online does not hold up; the security protocols of the worldwideweb, banking with its current online payment systems, the progressive education and knowledge of the digital environment of citizens mean that being able to buy a beautiful new car or a painting by the artist that we like is currently also real, simple and reliable, and a pleasure accessible from the most comfortable and remote place imaginable. © José Manuel Merello

Contemporary Art. Modern painting. Figures, Landscapes, Still lifes, Interiors. Current expressionism. José Manuel Merello.

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Spanish Contemporary Painters. Artists of the XXI-21st Century.

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BLACK IS WHITE.

José Manuel Merello

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THE COLOR LIVES.

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Art and Nature.

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