Diaz Alama CANTO XXV-XXVII. The Bad Couns
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About This Work
Jordi Diaz Alama’s *CANTO XXV–XXVII. The Bad Couns* channels the moral theatre of Dante’s *Inferno* into a contemporary painterly register. Working with vigorous, layered brushwork and a tense, atmospheric palette, Diaz Alama builds a scene that feels simultaneously narrative and psychological—figures and forms emerging, dissolving, and reasserting themselves in turbulent passages of paint. The composition’s implied momentum suggests corruption and persuasion as forces in motion, while sharp contrasts and scraped textures lend the surface a visceral physicality. Both classical in ambition and modern in execution, the work invites sustained looking, rewarding viewers with shifting details and emotional resonance.
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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