In the words of Antonio Murado: "What I paint lately focuses on the prominence of the figure and how it occupies the space in the painting. I take as my starting point the tradition of orthodox icons in Byzantium and the pro-Renaissance mural painting in what was no longer the Western Roman Empire.The Byzantine image was abstract and the new one began to represent nature as it was sensorially perceived by the artist. The latter approach would define what we understand today as a painter-artist, while the former would stagnate in a dead end that continues today and is considered a craft anecdote".