Mina Papatheodorou studied painting and is one of the few artists who have remained faithful to this art, as a means of expression, as an act, as the description of a truth, even as movement. It is true that that which mainly characterises her work is movement.

Movement which is not only related to the subject, that is to the pictorial description of something which moves, but, above all, which has to do with the recording of the movement of the artist herself.
Her works possess a plethoric quality, due not only to the colours she employs but also to her desire to render as faithfully as she can on the surface of the painting, using a strong gesticulatory technique, that which she has seen. Besides, is not painting, as Alexis Akrithakis says, "the adventure of seeing"?

The transference of this adventure of the eye and of the mind becomes, in my opinion, more interesting in her later works, because their size allows her greater freedom of movement. Thus, her themes, which are consciously fairly limited, before they become composition, drawing and colour, are an exercise and a genuine personal statement.

The automobiles of New York, with their lights on, emerge into space by means of a graphic technique that is powerful, expressive, almost expressionistic; and, reminding us, as they do, quite strongly, of the night scenes in comic strips and of cinema posters, they assume the form of strange painted snapshots, stills from some realistic motion-picture, which one would almost think, are there to help the eyes remember.