Painting, sculpture, watercolour and visual creation.
Paul Cezanne rebuilt landscape, still life and the human figure through colour relationships and shifting viewpoints, laying crucial foundations for modern art.
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Research led by Ruth Shady at Caral revealed a vast early urban centre whose monuments, economy and ritual life transformed the chronology of the ancient Americas.
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Oscar Niemeyer used reinforced concrete to create sweeping curves and monumental civic spaces that gave Brazilian modernism an unmistakable global identity.
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Michelangelo transformed marble, fresco and architecture through anatomical power and spiritual tension while negotiating patrons, workshops and immense public commissions.
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Emilio Pettoruti combined Cubist and Futurist experiments with a personal architecture of light, transforming musicians, harlequins and still lifes in Argentine painting.
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Oswaldo Guayasamin gave Latin American suffering, resistance and affection a monumental visual language built from urgent faces, hands and expressive distortion.
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Roberto Matta transformed architectural space and Surrealist automatism into unstable psychological landscapes that influenced postwar painting across continents.
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Vincent van Gogh transformed close observation and intense color into paintings that changed the course of modern art.
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A critical view of the artists and partners around Pablo Picasso, restoring their agency beyond the limiting label of muse.
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