048. DIAMANTOPOULOS Diamantis (1914-1995)

‘The builder’

Signed oil/tempera on card laid on board 35×28 cm

€ 1.500 – 2.000

Through the monumental rendering of toil, the solid designs, the crisp use of colour and shapes, the hallmark deliberate primitivism, the artist emphatically stresses his interest in the popular social stratae, a theme to which he was intensely devoted for a good part of his creative career. The use of abstract lines, the simplicity of the morphoplastic vocabulary and the avoidance of rendering individual characteristic to focus on shapes is meant to elevate the form into an oecumenic human being. The authenticity and originality of his expressive language betray an immediate familiarity, a sense of plastic balance and a clarity in this exquisite and artistically dynamic creation.