Abstract art is defined by suggestion of the natural or real versus the concrete, indexical perception of absolute depiction found in realism. In understanding these precepts the reader of this review will gain insight into how the writers assess the various viewpoints presented by opticality and perception from the artist, viewer, and critic in finding meaning in the work of an abstract painting. Opticality, how to view a work of art, can take the intellectual approach or take the form of a psychological game, sometimes perpetrated by the artist, as an optical illusion to be solved and other times to be used by writers through an intellectual approach in resolving the hidden meaning of the abstract painting. Manuel Felguerez is a Mexican artist who was born in Zacatecas, Mexico. He moved to Mexico City to study sculpture at the Academia de San Carlos and La Esmeralda School of Art. He began exhibiting in the early 1950s in Paris and Mexico City and continues to exhibit worldwide today. The work of Manuel Felguerez covers a vast space in the Mexican plastic reality. It is also one of the most powerful examples of the will to remain faithful to the authentic demands of art without closing the current moment, but also by opposing the truth of the artist when deemed necessary. Abstract painter and sculptor since his early works, he realizes his intimate and personal relationship with form. Felguerez always explored the endless possibilities of the means of expression themselves. Felguerez is a rational artist, analytical and self-appraising, geometric, organize, and order, logic, system of possibilities. In more ways than one, Felguerez might be easily taken for a professor. The formation of Felguerez style was influenced by the abstract expressionism which he was exposed to in his early training. His works contains geometric figures most of the time, such as circles, triangles, squares which he combines with his own language. Manuel Fel