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Portuguese painters and painting in Portugal

Painting brings together very different relationships with image, surface and gesture. In this archive, the discipline connects artists working across figuration, abstraction, narrative, material and exchanges with drawing, photography or sculpture.

How to explore this discipline

Exploring painting through individual artists makes it possible to look beyond fixed styles. Notice how each practice chooses scale, support, rhythm and ways of constructing an image. The biography situates the journey; the statement reveals questions that continue from work to work.

Compare artists and explore drawing, photography and sculpture as well. The edges of painting are often where a practice becomes most distinctive.