Galleries of images that illustrate essential concepts of the history of painting, its artists and movements.
Marie Bracquemond, the Impressionist Female Painter that Shone for an Instant Six Paintings. One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? She was a great impressionist female painter. She exhibited her works together with Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and all Read more
Primitivism Six Paintings. One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? It is logical: as modernity broke with the rules of “how art is supposed to be made”, the tradition imposed through academies; modern language enthusiastically incorporated elements of Read more
Monet’s path to Impressionism Six Paintings. One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? Although the first Impressionist exhibition was in 1874, one decade before we can identify some characteristics in Monet that would consolidate into “definitive Impressionism.” We Read more
Salvador Dalí and his Paranoid-Critical Method Six Paintings. One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? In the middle of Surrealism, where the artist liberates his unconscious mind with psychic automatism, Salvador Dalí proposes a new method: he makes Read more
Lee Krasner, Much More than Pollock’s Wife Six Paintings. One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? Lee Krasner was a fundamental painter of the Abstract Expressionism. She was part of the movement since it was born around 1940. Read more
Velázquez, the Painter of the Greatness and the Miseries of Men Six Paintings. One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? Velázquez is considered “painter of painters” due to his skill to show the soul of the characters, of Read more
Constellations by Miró Six Paintings. One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? It is a series of 23 small works on paper, with signs representing stars, birds and women forming a cosmos, a celestial map. A heaven reached Read more
Joaquín Sorolla and Light Six Paintings. One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? The unmistakable style of Joaquín Sorolla, bathed by the Mediterranean sunlight and called Luminism, was born out of certain curiosity strongly connected to Impressionism. He Read more
Lautrec’s Legacy Six Paintings. One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? One of the most fascinating characteristics of Lautrec’s work is his mode of achieving a set of gestures, an expression of the human figure by not painting Read more
Renoir and Aline Six Paintings. One Concept We could make this publication thanks to small donations. How is 3 minutos de arte supported? It was 1879. Aline Charigot was a young dressmaker. She was a 20 year-old neighbor of Renoir who was almost 40 in the Montmartre neighborhood. When Read more