Diaz Alama CANTO V. The Lustful
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About This Work
In *CANTO V. The Lustful*, Jordi Díaz Alamà channels the dramatic intelligence of Old Master painting into a fiercely contemporary allegory. Working with virtuoso draftsmanship and layered oil technique, he builds luminous flesh tones against turbulent, chiaroscuro atmospheres, allowing gesture, glaze, and incision-like marks to heighten psychological tension. Referencing Dante’s *Inferno*—and, by extension, Western art’s long history of moral narrative—Díaz Alamà reclaims the “lustful” not as caricature but as a study of desire, vulnerability, and power. The composition’s baroque dynamism and precise anatomical modelling speak to academic tradition, while its raw immediacy situates the work within today’s renewed appetite for figurative painting that confronts the body as a cultural battleground.
About the Artist
Jordi Diaz Alamà was born in Granollers in 1986, he graduated from the Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. He also trained at the classical art schools, such as the Florence Academy of Art (Florence) where he learned the techniques used by the great masters of 19th-century painting. Jordi ...
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