Revista MEXICO SOBRE MUROS

Octubre - Noviembre, 2001




Cristina Ruiz began to conceive her work in a city where few artists have not been inspired to create a masterpiece. At the beginning of his race, she decided to adopt Paris like departure point, and was there where one integrated to a factory of vitrales and restoration to learn to mix pigments and to make his own colors, to fuse sand to obtain, after many tests, the size and precise color for the creation and reconstruction of vitrales. In the experimentation of the materials and its use, a necessity grew great to know the techniques the painting that until then revealed to him like a secret. The impressive thing visited with great curiosity all the museums discovering its step that turns out to have as opposed to himself works of teachers as Gogh, Monet and Sorolla Go. This one last one influenced of an important way in her. With him it discovered that the light was a factor important to inject own life to a painting.

In its constant search, it visited all the churches, monuments and buildings that could. It coexisted with people of different cultures, routine characters other people's to the own one.

When arriving at Mexico already it knew the techniques the drawing and constantly sketched in an eagerness to perfect its outline. Later it knew Guadalupe Trueba, of that mainly learned the handling of the oil and of the color.

Cristina Ruiz is a painter with an artistic conscience conformed good. This determining to learn new techniques constantly because it needs many tools to solve a picture, it enjoys much its work and it needs each you see more time because never it finishes learning, always must be in everything, expressing and removing the maximum to him from benefit to its experiences.

The compositions in their work are balanced, with intuition by the space and the forms that is to him innate. The outline in its drawings is very clean and without titubeos and many of the times it accompanies them with delicate pinceladas by smooth colors giving to enhancement to the volume and the silhouettes. Another one of the latent elements is the gold leaf, that discovered when arriving at France. It learned well his use, applying it to his linen cloths to catch more light and to give a texture different from the one from the oil, and thus to play with the surface of his works. It happens the same to the transparencies, that apply to way of cortinillas creating a sensation of smoothness and mystery in their personages.

At the moment work of Cristina is focused in forms feminine that of a subtle way takes to think to us about an all organic one, that is to say, that the figure of the woman complements natural atmospheres and the colors of the Earth, which they are not more than a metaphor of the life, but of a life who is in balance with the others without corrupting them.

Cristina it likes the beautiful thing, is why it uses to women of different appearances in his work. For her the feminine body is more enriching, is the constant source of convulsos feelings and winding ways, in all the senses.

Cristina Ruiz is an integral painter in the heat of use of her freedom; she is an artist who generate metaphors of hers experiences and tell us through hers work hers experiences, like untiring traveller and protagonist of a renovation result of hers fond of walking histories.