This is a painter who possesses an extraordinary energy of plastic expression, a natural drive, an insistent ardour. While developing an agitated colouristic geography on the canvas, his gesture is never a sign of existential anxiety, an indicator of an internal plane or a fear without borders, as it is in artists more immersed or involved in the poetics of informel. It is not a sign of rebellious resentment or rage either. On the contrary, his gesture reflects the broad and full feeling of a person who senses the epic rhythm of things, of the world scene; its strong and continuous cadence reveals the flow of life as an uninterrupted breath.
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It would be useless to present here an artistic chronicle of Murtić and the various stages in his work. He belongs to the generation of Croatian artists derived from the Partisan experience with a very rich spiritual heritage, and is one of those who have not mislaid its values in the revival of the post-war idiom. The ardour of a time still lives, in a different time, in his colours and his live forms.
Mario de Micheli
Theoretician and art critic, Milan
Sagittaria Gallery