Adamantios Diamantis was born in Nicosia in 1900 and passed away in the same city in 1994.
He studied painting at St. Martin’s School of Art (1920–1921) and at the Royal College of Art in London (1921–1923).
He was a member of the Society of Cypriot Studies, as well as the founder and director of the Cyprus Folk Art Museum.
In his work, he utilized lessons from Post-Impressionist movements, primarily from Cézanne, and from Cubism, which he had encountered during his travels in Europe. Even when his figures are stylized, he remains faithful to symmetry, strict outlines, and the plasticity of form. In ‘The World of Cyprus’, a frieze-like, epic, elegiac, and monumental work, he depicts episodes from the island’s modern history without descriptiveness, supplementary elements, or genre-painting dimensions. Instead, he employs symbolic character, abstract types of stylization, elliptical space, and anti-realistic, expressionist elements and distortions.
He presented his work in solo exhibitions and participated in group and thematic exhibitions in Nicosia, Athens, London, and elsewhere.
He received the Excellence in Letters and Arts award in 1993, while he was also honored with awards from the Royal College of Art in London (1923), the Academy of Athens (1976), and the University of Athens (1989)