Diaz Alama CANTO II. Dante.
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About This Work
In *CANTO II. Dante*, Jordi Diaz Alama revisits the literary architecture of *The Divine Comedy* through a distinctly contemporary painterly language. Building the image in stratified veils of oil and glaze, the artist fuses assured draughtsmanship with passages of abrasion and impasto, allowing figure and ground to pulse between revelation and erasure. The composition reads like a modern palimpsest: part narrative illustration, part psychological tableau, where Dante’s journey becomes a lens for present-day questions of moral turbulence, exile, and inner reckoning. Diaz Alama’s command of chiaroscuro and tonal temperature lends the work a cinematic intensity, situating this painting within current European figurative painting while extending a vital dialogue with classical humanism.
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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