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On the other hand, he has managed to articulate his own reality, both However, for Canals, automatism supplies everything in creation,
internal - suppressing reason, letting the primordial of his mind and culminating in the work of art. Masson mentioned the ‘radiant unity’
body act - and visible - since his reality becomes evident in the world of merging unconscious and conscious, intuition and intellect. In the
through plastic arts. Once, surrealist painter André Masson stated that Catalan author’s work, radiant unity is understood as the result of
‘automatism (the investigation of the powers of the unconscious), canceling all these notions as purely as possible, working with free
dreams, and the association of images only provide materials. will to bring out what is innate and translated into plastic product.
Andrea García Casal, art historian & art critic (ditor interpretaion)
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