Early in his development, contemporary artist Mario Andres Robinson began looking at the great masters for inspiration and technical insight. An avid student of realism Robinson studied the elemental principles of painting by exploring the work and technique of Old Masters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and Caravaggio. However, it was the work of 19th and 20th-century American artists that provided Robinson with the strongest stylistic foundation, helping him forge and define his own artistic sensibility.

The work of Mario Andres Robinson fits squarely within the tradition of American painting. Robinson's finished works bear a close affinity to the masters of the realist tradition of American tradition, Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Eakins. Containing few references to modern life, Robinson's work has a timeless and universal quality, and exhibits a distinct turn-of-the-century stylistic aesthetic. The images he chooses, which refer to a bygone era where solitude and reflection were abundant, also provoke allusions to the paintings of Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper.

While a confluence of styles has exerted varying degrees of influence over Mario Robinson, the artist's individuality asserts itself. He is capable of exceptional technical proficiency, which he uses to convey his vision of people and places in his immediate world, and the rural venues he chooses to depict. ...