Darwin was born in 1972 in Santiago de las Vegas a small town in Havana, Cuba. At the age of 5 his parents noticed his drawings talents. Darwin was accepted in a local art school in Cuba at 6 yrs old where his art skills developed. Over the next 7 years he won several awards of national and international acclaim. Due to political and economical crisis he and his family left Cuba and went to Spain where they continued to the United States unable to continue studying in such institute. He recently earned is Bachelors in Fine Arts degree from Miami International University of Art Design in March 2005 where he was awarded Best in Show for the First Juried Student Show Exhibition in 2004 and first place in the Visual Arts Scholarship Award of Excellence in 2003. Also he was awarded best in painting at The Art & Music Festival in 2004 Hollywood, Florida. Darwin's first focus of style was religious portraits. However his passion seemed to be with figurative and expressionistic. He began developing the characters he drew as a child and transferred his thoughts to canvas. Along with personal experience Darwin incorporated sarcasm, satires, irony, theatrical elements and finally surrealism and cubism into his work. In some his most recent work, he is experimenting with chiaroscuro a master technique used by many artists during the Renaissance. Darwin's work is fresh and alive and the colors are radiant. The artist is currently promoting a series of self-exhibitions titled The End of Mediocrity A series of exhibitions promoting the search for a modern Renaissance and the end of the anti-art . "Anti-art" was a revolt against aesthetics that started in Paris in 1919. The Dada movement was the main originator of this revolt. Dada wanted nothing, and created only with the intention of proving that creation was nothing. They were in search of destruction of art by artistic means and that oil painting and all aesthetic demands should be abandoned. The artist exhibitions purpose is to bring back a high Renaissance into this modern and contemporary art world. A re-birth of academic skills such as form, structure, perspective, prospective, classicism, romanticism, passion, surrealism and other elements are necessary to accomplish this vision and goal in the art world. His brilliant use of messages hidden and obvious leaves the admirer wondering while constantly discovering something new. The Latin-American Art Museum has recognized Darwin as one of the best young artists of this time.
