Canvas Fit - Alberto Ricardo - El Mito del Sur: Maradona Eterno”

Artwork by the artist Canvas Fit-Alberto Ricardo created using Giclée print technique on high-quality professional canvas, 100% cotton, highly resistant to handling and external agents, from the Eco Canvas Roma Glossy brand, satin finish.
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Dimension of 65 x 100 cm painting with 5 cm depth.
Limited edition 2/5.
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This image printed on canvas transcends the classic portrait to merge with expressionist muralism and Latin American popular culture. The protagonist, Diego Armando Maradona, is not merely a human figure portrayed here, but a visual totem, a mythical embodiment of passion, power, and football rebellion. Holding the iconic football with his head while imploring the universe for his grace.

The pictorial technique relies on dense, impulsive brushstrokes that seem made with fingers rather than a brush. Each stroke adds emotional volume, as if the canvas were burning with popular fervor. The colors—blues, reds, oranges, and yellows—do not follow realism but symbolism. The blue of Argentina's jersey vibrates like the sky of Naples or the heart of La Boca. The red and orange that ignite his face allude to the internal fire of the '10', to his eternal struggle between glory and storm.

Maradona's face is treated like a sculpture carved with rage and devotion. The defiant and uplifted gaze, the frown, the focused and untamed expression — all point to an almost religious construction of the figure. Maradona does not observe; he prophesies. The background reinforces this symbolic dimension: words like REY, CAMPEÓN, POTENTE, POP, or STARS are written like neighborhood graffiti, in an aesthetic that blends street art with sacred iconography. The name does not appear, nor is it necessary. Just the face and the AFA jersey are enough to understand that he is the pagan god of Argentine football.

The image also celebrates Maradona's time with Le Coq Sportif, the uniform from the 1986 World Cup, referencing his most epic moment: the conquest of the world in Mexico. There is no nostalgia here, only permanence. The canvas screams that Maradona was not, but is.

This canvas-printed portrait is not just an image: it is a cultural manifesto. It combines the aesthetics of contemporary art with the tribal emotion of football, transforming the Argentine star into a figure as immortal as the saints, myths, or heroes of antiquity.