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The French abstract and figurative painter Aswan Diama concentrates her pictorial production on portraits of women. The female figure becomes the main character of her canvas, in doing so the artist would praise the role of the woman and pay tribute to her. Her artworks are the representation of how the feminine figure is seen by the artist herself. The woman is depicted in paintings as a woman in all her beauty and purity, as the woman who contorts, the woman who helps, the woman who gives birth to new lives, and the woman who gives peace and harmony to the hearts. The essential traits of the portraits’ subjects are painted by figures formed by lines, curves, and angles, combined with colours and soft touch textures that restore a warmth, intimate and cosiness sensation. The power of images created by Aswan Diama is obtained with a mix of cold colours side by side with lively ones, the presence of deep shadows and the material density of lines. The rich composition of forms, shapes and shades enables the artist to give to the viewers a strong sense of power that comes to light through delicate and soft feminine portraits. The result can only be paintings that can move, speak, and interact with whoever is looking at them, demonstrating feelings and emotions.