Twenty-four painters, one card each
Four artists for every movement, in the order they practised. Dates, where they worked, and the one thing they are known for — enough to tell them apart, no more.
What each card is telling you
Four fields, and each one is doing a job. Read them in this order and the card stays useful.
Dates and place
When they worked and where. Two painters in the same city in the same decade were usually watching each other closely.
The one-line note
What their work was actually doing: light, geometry, colour as feeling, the everyday. It is the handle for everything else you read about them.
The movement tag
Click it to read the whole era. A painter makes more sense inside the argument their generation was having.
What is missing
No works, no reproductions, no rankings. The gallery page carries the works; this page is about the people and their practice.
Short answers
Why only four artists per movement?
Because four is enough to see the range of an era without turning the page into a list. Read the four, then look up the names the movement page mentions in its own artist line.
Why are some dates written as c.?
Because for early painters the exact birth year is often unknown or disputed. The c. means about.
Can I search for an artist directly?
Yes. Press / and type the name. Artist names are indexed in the site search, and each one links to this page.
See where a painter sits in the story
Each movement page puts its artists in order and explains what the generation was trying to solve.
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