Curated lists
Routes through the collection
Each list is written like a wall text: a claim, a route, and four or five painters who prove it. Save one and it lives on your profile.
Four rooms · 4 artists
Instead of Picasso, start here
Cubism was never a solo invention, and its most rigorous conclusions were drawn in Moscow and Paris by women who are rarely hung beside him. This route moves from fractured plane to pure colour, and ends with the geometry that walked off the canvas and into a factory.
A contested origin · 5 artists
Who actually invented abstraction
The textbook still opens with Kandinsky. This list opens in a locked Stockholm studio in 1906, and follows the line through Munich, Moscow and postwar New York — five painters who built non-objective painting and were filed under 'also present'.
Looking back · 4 artists
The nude, painted from the other side
What changes when the person who was looked at picks up the brush? Four painters who worked as models, mothers or patients before they worked as authors of the body — and painted it without flattery.
Mexico City, 1943 · 3 artists
Surrealists who refused to be the muse
Breton's circle wanted women as apparitions. These three left Europe, took the dream logic with them, and built cosmologies with better internal engineering than most of the men managed.