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It is certainly interesting to be able to write about an artist like Robert C. Murray II, who from 1985, already to the edge of his graduation, obtained two first prizes and three second prizes from Notre Dame High School in California, USA for his magnificent works in watercolor. In 1998/99, he studied Graphic Design, where he won first prize in a city-wide competition in Los Angeles for his extraordinary work titled “Turning Dreams into Reality.” During a period of more than 12 years, he developed an artistic career always in rise within the world of painting, emphasizing his abilities of painting miniatures, or developing multiple skills in techniques such as watercolors, oils, acrylics, airbrush, marker comps, pencil, pen & ink, pastel and colored pencils. During this period, he also painted acrylic on miniatures of metal and plastic which were displayed in many conventions until the point of becoming one of the respected artists not only in his own country, but also in others as he is today on this island that welcomes him.
Robert C. Murray II was born in 1967 in Hollywood, California, becoming a citizen of the world, projecting his creative spirit in such a way that his works have been able to obtain a multitude of individual and collective exhibitions, obtaining numerous prizes that have been recognizing and strengthening his worth as a painter.
We are, therefore, before an untiring worker, whose life turns around the fascinating world of pictorical creation, considering the perfection of nature in his art to create some pantings of indescribable beauty, using and arranging in each of his works all the colors of the rainbow.
He is an extreme lover of detail as far as the improvement of the image goes.It is impossible to talk about his work without emphasizing the deep relation that maintains with the Earth and the spirit, the light being his better source of inspiration. But it is perhaps in his routes by the vision of the interminable places that he has seen, which has allowed a deep communication between the Artist and his surroundings, In order for the Artist to be the best one he can be, he is not enough by having talent. If the Artist does not paint character, his works, no matter how much they become, will always be mediocre because honesty is the first condition of the asthetic one, and in this, our Protagonist has surpassed himelf. He is meticulous in the reading of the light and he does a study by himelf. He is an Artist who is able to treat the perspective where obvious and paints the forms in such a way that he is able to maintain the verticalidad of his figures.
Fundamentally, works of Robert C. Murray II make a study of the light to reflect the different moments from each expression, becoming an authentic creator of the luminant variations; he modulates it at will, turns it primaveral or light of autumn, in light at the zenith moment of the morning or light of the evening, but always in a subtle light that bathes the fields, the objects and waters with a delicate caress. Nothing is strident, but all of his works inspire peace and silence; a realism that has something evocative, of dreamed landscape, and sentimental memory.
Robert C. Murray II has a talent that cultivates with his honesty and practices with his polished technique, in that he approaches and transmits the subjects that get passionate to him; unique and inherent qualities of the great teachers, as to whom we foretell great successes in his race as an Artist...
Rafael Santana Rodriguez
Writer – Critic of Art
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