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I was born in 1959 in Drama and live in Kavala, a city of northern Greece.
As far as I remember myself, I like painting. I have never watched any artschool course about painting. For this reason, I consider myself self –taught. I assume that Caravaggio, Velasquez and Rembrand are my teachers. I studied a lot about the theory and history of art.
During my childhood I used to copy the classic painters in order to learn how to paint. I had been provided with books of art which I studied continuously. That period I was influenced by Dali and Magritte. I created my first compositions with surrealism and symbolism.
From 1985 I have started to make my first attempts on abstract compositions.
My works are exhibited rarely in several topical group exhibitions.
In 2000, felling lost, I decided to follow the basic instructions of experienced wayfarers who consult that, as soon as you feel that you have been lost, the wisest action is to follow your footsteps backwards until you find yourself in known places.
Thus therefore, I started to travel back to the constant values of the grandmasters. I studied deeply the work of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Caravaggio, Paulo Uccelo, Piero de la Francesca, attempting to captivate the ineffable merit of the work of the big figures of art. I was trying to arrest the quintessence of painting.
I tried to use sand and glue in order to create a surface on canvas emphasising the colours and lines with this rough texture.
Diamantis Stagidis does not have any artwork in this favorites collection.