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Painting

Pigment on a surface, still the default meaning of art.

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Neo-expressionism

A loud, colourful recoil from thought—neo-expressionism sold feeling as substance.

Photorealism didn’t copy reality—it outsourced seeing to the camera, then called the result painting.

Expressionism isn’t a style—it’s the moment art stopped copying the world and started reporting on the nervous system.

Kahlo didn’t paint dreams—she painted wounds, walls, and the weight of being Mexican after revolution.

Ukraine’s icon tradition didn’t survive by staying still—it bent, borrowed, and rebuilt itself across ten centuries.

Impressionism didn’t paint the world—it painted the act of seeing it.

Pollock didn’t invent gesture—he built a machine that made gesture legible as structure.

Pointillism isn’t about light—it’s about forcing your eye to do the work the palette refuses to do.

Dalí proved surrealism didn’t need sloppy hands to feel unhinged.

A national gallery built by chequebook, not crown—and still defining what 'Western painting' means on British soil.

Basquiat didn’t bring the street into the gallery — he exposed how the gallery depends on erasing the street.