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During the long sailing along the Dalmatian coast, an unexpected interlude in 1980, Edo Murtić could not resist painting landscapes. This return to origins, return to landscape art from before 1951, gave Murtić an opportunity to juxtapose his original art with his present art.
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It is a true celebration of color, of a substance that pours out like lava, such an apparent joy of painting and expressing the freedom of creativity, a lasting elation of joy. Lively color, vigorous and piercing, strengthen this composition. It is loud and skillfully shaped at the same time. The chaos of the thrown forms expresses the abundance of life energy that Murtić always exhibited, but the elegance of color comes as a counterpoint which confirms his ease as an artist who has reached the full maturity of his art.
Michel Ragon
Writer and theoretician of modern art