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Diomede, Miguel
(b Buenos Aires, 20 July 1902; d Buenos Aires, 15 Oct 1974). Argentine painter. He was self-taught and began painting in 1929, first exhibiting in 1941 and elaborating a personal language in the tradition of Cézanne and Bonnard. In small, intimate paintings he restricted himself to the world of objects, using light to suggest form and to give vibrancy to the rich colouring, and sketchy brushstrokes to insinuate the presence of objects within a solid geometric structure. Although he maintained perceptible outlines in his early works, these later disappeared, allowing the forms to dissolve in a space that becomes the main protagonist, for example in Oranges (Buenos Aires, Mus. N. B.A.). Reality becomes transformed into something light and airy, revealing the emptiness within which objects exist, with colour defining imaginary layers of space interwoven into a single atmosphere, as in Grapes, Fig and Peach (1945; Buenos Aires, Mus. N. B.A.). As a painter of everyday themes Diomede inquired into the spirit of things. In 1958 he received a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Brussels.
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