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Abbott Handerson Thayer
Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) was an American painter and naturalist known for ethereal paintings of angels, women, and children, and for his pioneering theory of animal camouflage.
Abby Champion
Abby Champion (born 1997, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American fashion model, also known as Patrick Schwarzenegger's wife. Debut 2017; 186 Big Four runway shows; campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's Secret, Zimmermann, Chanel.
Abdoulaye Konaté
Abdoulaye Konaté is a Malian contemporary artist, born 1953 in Diré and based in Bamako, whose monumental sewn-cloth installations address war, religion, globalization, and the AIDS epidemic.
Abdulmari Imao
Abdulmari Imao was a Filipino sculptor and painter who became the first National Artist from Mindanao in 2006, known for modernist works on Mindanao motifs like the sarimanok.
Abdur Rahman Chughtai
Abdur Rahman Chughtai (عبدالرحمٰن چغتائی, 1894–1975) was a Pakistani painter from Lahore, regarded as the national artist of Pakistan and known for the Muraqqa-i-Chughtai and its illustrated Ghalib poetry.
Abe Sapien
Abe Sapien (Abraham Sapien, born Langdon Everett Caul) is Mike Mignola's amphibious "Ichthyo sapien" B.P.R.D. agent from the Hellboy comics, first appearing in Seed of Destruction #2, found in 1978 with a note dated April 14, 1865, and played by Doug Jones in del Toro's films.
Ablaq
Ablaq (Arabic: أبلق) is a decorative masonry technique of Islamic architecture, alternating light and dark stone courses, classically white and black, first recorded in Damascus in 1109.
Abomey appliqué
Abomey appliqué is a court textile art of the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, in which colorful cut-cotton figures sewn onto dark grounds record the emblems, battles, and proverbs of Fon kings.
Abomination (character)
The Abomination is a Marvel Comics supervillain and the alter ego of Emil Blonsky, a KGB agent permanently transformed by gamma radiation, first appearing in Tales to Astonish in 1967.
Abram Games
Abram Games, born Abraham Gamse, was a British graphic designer best known as the Official War Poster Artist of World War II, guided by his philosophy "maximum meaning, minimum means".
Abramtsevo Colony
The Abramtsevo Colony (Абрамцево), also called the Mamontov artistic circle, was a community of Russian artists, writers, and musicians gathered at Savva Mamontov's estate near Moscow in the 1870s to 1890s.
Absolute Catwoman
Absolute Catwoman is a 2026 six-issue DC limited series in the Absolute Universe, by Scott Snyder, Che Grayson, and Bengal, reimagining Selina Kyle as a wealthy, high-tech world-class thief.
Absolute Power (comics)
Absolute Power is DC Comics' 2024 four-issue crossover event by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, in which Amanda Waller, Failsafe, and the Brainiac Queen strip every metahuman's powers, leading into DC All In.
Absolute Universe
The Absolute Universe is DC Comics' alternate continuity launched October 2024 via DC All In, reimagining Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman as underdogs stripped of wealth, family, and paradise; 15 of 2025's top 20 comics were Absolute titles.
Abstract art
Abstract art: non-representational art emphasizing pattern, shape, line and color rather than visual reality, also called non-objective art. Emerged with Kandinsky (1911–1913), Malevich's Suprematism (1915), Mondrian's De Stijl, and earlier Hilma af Klint; dominated 20th-century modernism through Abstract Expressionism.
Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism, or the New York School, was the dominant American painting movement of the 1940s and 1950s, spanning Pollock's action painting and Rothko's color fields, and shifted the art world's center from Paris to New York.
Abstraction-Création
Abstraction-Création was an international association of abstract artists founded in Paris in 1931 and active until 1936, promoting non-figurative art through exhibitions and an annual journal.
Abuna Yemata Guh
Abuna Yemata Guh is a monolithic Ethiopian Orthodox church hewn into a sandstone spire in the Gheralta area of Tigray, Ethiopia, named after Abba Yemata, one of the Nine Saints.
Academic art
Academic art, or académisme and art pompier, is painting made under the official art academies, from the 1648 Paris Académie to the École des Beaux-Arts, with history painting as its highest genre.
Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the French royal institution for teaching and regulating painting and sculpture from 1648 until its abolition in 1793.
Academy style
Academy style (院体, "academy painting") is the meticulous, refined style of Chinese court painting, produced by the Song dynasty Hanlin Painting Academy and later court workshops.
Achaemenid rhyton
An Achaemenid rhyton (ریتون هخامنشی) is a ceremonial drinking horn of the Persian Achaemenid empire, ca. 700–330 BCE, combining a horn-shaped vessel with an animal protome and a spout.
Achille Castiglioni
Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002) was a Milanese architect and industrial designer, a central figure of postwar Italian design who created nearly 150 objects, including the Arco floor lamp.
Acrylic paint
Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint of pigment dispersed in an acrylic polymer emulsion binder, thinned with water and drying to a tough, flexible, water-resistant film.
Action painting
Action painting, also called gestural abstraction, is a postwar American painting style where dripping and pouring paint is the act itself, named by Harold Rosenberg in 1952.
Ad Reinhardt
Ad Reinhardt (Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt, 1913–1967), American abstract painter of the New York School; his five-by-five-foot matte Black Paintings hide red, blue, and green crosses, and his 'art-as-art' doctrine shaped Minimalism and Conceptual art.
Adalbert Erdeli
Adalbert Erdeli (Адальберт Ерделі; 1891–1955) was a Transcarpathian painter and teacher, born in Zahattia and a founder of the Transcarpathian school of painting, influenced by Cézanne's impressionism.
Adam Ellis (artist)
Adam Ellis (adamtots), American cartoonist born 1986 in Montana, ex-BuzzFeed illustrator known for millennial webcomics and the viral 2017 "Dear David" ghost thread, author of the NYT bestseller Bad Dreams in the Night.
Adam Elsheimer
Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610) was a German painter and etcher who worked in Rome, painting small works on copper with innovative light effects that influenced Rubens, Rembrandt, and Claude Lorrain.
Adam X the X-Treme
Adam X the X-Treme, also known as Adam Neramani, is a Marvel Comics character first appearing in 1993, a human-Shi'ar hybrid whose mutant power ignites an opponent's blood.