Coming from Italy, the germination of the European Renaissance, Murray began in 1923 as Italy's earliest professional oil paint factory. Under the dual influence of artistic edification and the vigorous development of the pigment chemical industry in the last century, Murray has been smooth all the way, and after being acquired by the well-known painting material group FILA, it is now a leading enterprise in the production and distribution of art pigments in Italy.
Murray is the most persistent manufacturer of single pigments in the market, and its Murray blue watercolor completed an iterative update in late 2018, and only 2 of the 90 colors are made of mixed pigments. The same oil paint as Meritian Blue is the Maimeri Puro, with 84 colors made from a single pigment, achieving the highest three-star durability assessed by Murray. It is worth mentioning that Maimeri Puro uses two light-colored oils, safflower oil and poppy seed oil, as medium oils to ensure the most restored color effect, but the drying time can be mostly controlled within 5 days, which is the result of a large proportion of pigments.
Maimeri Puro is a series that Murray has come up with at no cost, with a unit price of about 95-550 yuan for 40ml, which is a fight with the old Holland. Its average abrasive particle size is less than 5μm, easy to wipe and easy to operate, 80% of the pigments are inorganic pigments, and the overall opacity is also a good choice for the pursuit of covering effect.
Compared to Maimeri Puro, Murray's true positioning as an artist's oil paint pales in comparison. It is a product accumulated by Murray since 1923, with a total of 102 colors, but only 45 colors of single pigments, and 22 colors have a durability of two stars, which is not comparable with other brands of artist-grade oil paints. The pigments are mainly inorganic pigments and domestic natural soil pigments, with a grinding accuracy of 5-10μm, and the price of 60ml is 80-360 yuan.
Murray also has two product lines, a series of classical oil paintings modeled after the traditional blending of old Dutch, and a series of earth colors made up only of the country's soil pigments. There are many alternative colors in the classical oil painting series, and the level of pigments is not as good as that of the old Netherlands, but the color is dark, so it is called "classical". Only 25 of the 77 colors are single pigments, and the price of 60ml is only 50-60 yuan. With a grinding accuracy of 50-100 μm and a rich mixture in the formula to improve pigment dispersion, the Italian Earth Colors range is only recommended as a base color, which is rare in the market due to the availability of alternatives in artist-grade oil paints.
