Music & art

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“Here, more than in other any work of the series, Diamantis rid himself of rational incumbencies and produced a canvas that was the painterly translation...

‘My art needed Paris, like a tree needs water, otherwise it would have withered’ – Marc Chagall On this day, July 6th, 1887, Marc Chagall...

““Agony VI”, which Diamantis painted a year later, in 1969, evokes a different visual climate. In this strongly expressionist work, the dominant position is held...

“During the same year, 1968, Diamantis also completed “Agony V”. This is a variation of the central female fi gure, with the child in her...

“On a thematic level, it features the same female figures, one of whom is clutching in her arms her small child and the other her...

“In this variation, the landscape in the background takes on greater importance and with its sharpened rocks it appears much more aggressive. Diamantis had no...

“In 1963, Diamantis delivered the second part of the series, “Agony II”. Six studies of this composition were found, in which we can see that...

The exhibition focused on ‘Agonies’, the important series of works from Adamantios Diamantis’ oeuvre and featured the eight emblematic paintings, created from 1963 to 1977,...

Take a virtual tour of the exhibition here: https://bit.ly/3fINa4q This temporary exhibition was dedicated to the pioneering Cypriot artist Adamantios Diamantis (1900-1994), continuing the A. G....

Take a virtual tour of the exhibition here: https://bit.ly/2MZmBvv Anyone who was lucky enough to have known Niki Marangou understands how special she was. Those...

“Painting was therefore a very meaningful act for Niki, through which she realized her freedom. Her ‘travels’ through space and time were an effort to...

‘Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of a century, who express, personify & embody it’. – Edmond de Goncourt and Jules...