Spanish painters

Velázquez's fellow countrymen

Artists from Spain who create paintings.

The phrase typically evokes the country's distinctive artistic tradition, from El Greco and Velázquez through Goya to modern masters like Picasso and Dalí: The museum's collection of Spanish painters spans four centuries.

Spain's painters are noted for their bold use of light and shadow, religious intensity, and surrealist innovation.

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