There are multiple ways to classify the development of painting over the centuries. I present a personal summary that emphasizes the interaction between figure and ground, canvas and wall.

Here we find three moments of the image: first, the wall, which allows us to see the horizon (it is a real window); then, the painting (which is a motionless virtual window), which is the negation of the wall and allows us to remember a place, a person, or be part of a fictional world; and finally, the suprapictorialist image, where the wall participates in the image, granting it a new visual meaning through the interaction of its color, the completeness of its forms, the expansion of its dimensions, and the different textures.