Artist

MOISES CRUZ

Artist bio

Dr. Cruz was born on April 25, 1953 in Puebla City, Mexico. He became obsessed with both art and singing at an early age. He also spent most of his youth sketching and studying architecture, human figure and nature. During his working career as a singing and art teacher, he explored a broad range of artistic styles from classic to modern art. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts at the Suffield University, he decided to continue his art studies until earning his Master of Arts at the Atlantic International University and his Doctorate’s degree in Fine Arts at the Suffield University. Remarkably gifted as a painter and engraving artist, Dr. Cruz is undoubtedly a versatile artist whose artworks show incredible diversity in styles, media and subjects that are known for their compositions and powerful immediacy. He has won a great deal of awards, honors and recognitions for his artistic work which expresses topics of the Mexican colonial architecture through engraving on different animal skins. His artistic work has been presented in different media such as: Telemundo 44, Univision, channel 25 (cable) as well as in many Press and art magazine articles. Dr Cruz was graduated from the Art Instruction Schools, recognized his outstanding academic achievement and exemplary contributions to the public with the Outstanding Graduate Award for 2000 year. Dr Cruz won the first place in The Chicago Yellow Pages Contest Spanish Edition in 2005. His winning painting was placed on the front cover of the book. More than 250,000 copies were distributed all over the Chicago area and suburbs. Accordingly, art critics, art lovers and fellow artists acclaimed him for this achievement. It is worth mentioning that Dr. Cruz has been an art instructor for children and adults in private classes and at different places such as Waukegan Park District, Jack Benny Center for the Arts, and Xilin Lake County Chinese School at College of Lake County in Grayslake, IL. Many years of experience and several art exhibits have witnessed Dr. Cruz’s hard-working hours to inspire the society to appreciate and to look at art once again. "

Title

"THE MYSTIC LEGACY OF LA RAZA "

Medium/Genre

Painting

Artist Statement

I consider myself an artist whose historic moment as a world citizen in a competitive environment takes his life project and creative ability into account as a great influence and inspiration to choose topics and styles. The aim is to provoke in man and in society aesthetic emotions, feelings of admiration and collective sublimations.
As an artist, I get inspired by the social environment, the nature, the human being and his behavior, Neuroscience, culture, and people’s traditions to create something new and different, even with a subtle hue of something already known that can be found in any of them.
Furthermore, I find it very important to get art and artists back to their real place in our lives as well as to arouse the viewer’s interest, participation, critical and creative estimation looking and understanding the real “artistic truth” featuring scenes of social, political, evolution to get a better life among all of us, control on our emotions and feelings, working in harmony, cooperation and unity to avoid hunger, poverty, and utopic traditions. Tragic exhibition of the miseries of the people, their pain, oppression, impunity, and injustices that plague them.

“Being able to create and enjoy art is equivalent to an integration of society in consciousness”.

Moises Marco Antonio Cruz
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How it fits into contest

God gave us the capacity to think, to believe, to understand, to create and develop a world according with his holy word but, when we take the decisions following our emotions and feelings, we make many mistakes.
The Lord help us (Ephesians 6:10-12)

When I am creating my art work (on this particular subject).
The main model represents the whole armor of God, his divine protection.
and all of us may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (13-17) Transformation is the key in our brain to control our emotions through praying (1st. Thessalonians 5:17)

I transform all my impressions (imaginative or real through my creative intuition where such intuition is as valid as the reason) in expressions (concrete - sensitive image or images); producing a force and a virtue in the spectator that emanates from each artistic piece, that means, visual communication
“The awakening of a new, individual and collective consciousness” is not only about ‘aesthetic emotions’ (without understood emotion, there is nothing in life), but also about transforming your “attitude towards life”, renewing the universal values portraying them in artwork through painting in order to give a globalized social dimension.
Thus, my artistic approach and fundamental objective in painting as a branch of art is to act, as a powerful factor of social unification, in order to inspire and achieve a superior life of equal rights, respect and universal peace through God's word (Ephesians 18:20)

“Half-truths and easy optimism give place to cynicism and apathy. At the last extreme, only the truth (God's word) can serve the people through art”.

Moises Marco Antonio Cruz

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Credits

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How to Purchase this Artwork

Original Art work with certificate of authenticity.
Title: "THE MYSTIC LEGACY OF LA RAZA"
Dimensions: 36" X 48" X 1"
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Price: $ 50,000.00 US

Posters available with artist signature (no frame included)
Dimensions: 14" X 21"

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