Galleries of images that illustrate essential concepts of the history of painting, its artists and movements.
Who were the Three Graces? Six Paintings, One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? The Three Graces are also known as Charities and are minor goddesses of Greek mythology. They were known to the Romans as The Gratiae. Read more
Picasso and Dissociation Six Paintings, One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? Dissociation occurs when a figure is shown from several points of view simultaneously. Therefore, the different elements that make up that figure appear dispersed (dissociated, disunited). Read more
Millet and his Peasants Six Paintings, One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? Millet is a painter who exalts peasant life, simple things, and everyday life. He is an artist of realism, although he usually adds to his Read more
Vincent van Gogh, the Sunflowers and Expressionism Six Paintings, One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo that, awaiting Gauguin’s arrival (they lived together for a time in Arles), he wanted to Read more
Kandinsky in Murnau, the stage previous to The Blue Rider Six Paintings, One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? Influenced by Fauvism and close to founding the expressionist group The Blue Rider, in Murnau, Kandinsky experiments with shapes Read more
Gauguin in Martinique Six Paintings, One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? The four months Gauguin spent on the island of Martinique, in the Caribbean, were crucial for his artistic life. Before starting this journey —whose original destination Read more
Jeanne Hébuterne, painter Six Paintings, One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? Jeanne Hébuterne met Modigliani when she was 19 and lived with him until he died, when she was 22 years old. Two years later, she killed Read more
The Bathers, by Cézanne Six paintings. One concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? In these paintings, Cézanne treats bodies as volumes, as we can see in the lack of detail and abstraction. He does not care about reproducing Read more
The Bathers, by Picasso Six paintings, One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? We are in 1928 and 1929, on the beaches of Dinard. This Picasso’s stage is called “Surrealist”, since he exhibited with the group in 1925, Read more
Grimshaw and the Talent to Paint the Light at Night Six Paintings, One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? Grimshaw was a romantic of the second half of the 19th century who idealized ports and urban landscapes, filling Read more