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Are-bure-boke
Are-bure-boke (アレ・ブレ・ボケ) is a Japanese photography style meaning "grainy, blurry, and out of focus," which became the signature of the magazine Provoke, founded in Tokyo in 1968.
Arial
Arial is a sans serif typeface designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders at Monotype for IBM laser printers, based on Monotype Grotesque, first named Sonoran Sans Serif, and licensed by Microsoft for Windows 3.1 in 1992.
Arie Smit
Arie Smit, born Adrianus Wilhelmus Smit, was a Dutch-born Indonesian painter (1916–2016) known for bright pointillist paintings of Bali and for founding the Young Artists movement near Ubud.
Aristarkh Lentulov
Aristarkh Lentulov (1882–1943) was a Russian and Soviet painter, theatrical designer, and teacher, a founder of the Russian avant-garde known for vivid panels of old Moscow churches.
Aristide Maillol
Aristide Maillol was a French sculptor and painter, born at Banyuls-sur-Mer in 1861, who turned to sculpture around 1900 and became a leading 20th-century sculptor.
Arita ware
Imari ware (伊万里焼, Imari-yaki), also called Arita or Hizen ware, is Japan's first porcelain, made around Arita, Saga, and shipped from Imari port. Known for Early Imari, Kakiemon, Kinrande, and Nabeshima styles and 17th-century VOC exports to Europe.
Arkhip Kuindzhi (Архип Иванович Куинджи)
Arkhip Kuindzhi (Архип Иванович Куинджи), Greek-origin Russian/Ukrainian landscape painter (c. 1842–1910), famed for luminous works like Moonlit Night on the Dnieper, Academy professor, philanthropist, Kuindzhi Society founder.
Arkon
Arkon, sometimes called Arkon the Magnificent, is a Marvel Comics character created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, first appearing in The Avengers #75 in 1970.
Arlene Alda
Arlene Alda (née Weiss, born 1933, Bronx) is an American photographer, writer, and former Houston Symphony clarinetist, wife of actor Alan Alda, author of children's books and Just Kids from the Bronx.
Armin Hofmann
Armin Hofmann (1920–2020) was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher who taught at the Basel School of Design from 1947 to 1986 and was known for reduced black-and-white posters.
Armorial of British universities
Armorial of British universities: the coats of arms of UK universities, granted by the College of Arms or the Lord Lyon. Covers Oxford's ungranted arms from about 1412, Cambridge's 1573 grant, Leeds's 1905 first university grant, and modern examples.
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen (1902–1971) was a Danish architect and designer whose total-design practice produced the SAS Royal Hotel, St Catherine's College, Oxford, and the Egg and Swan chairs.
Arno Breker
Arno Breker (1900–1991), German sculptor and architect, Hitler's favored monumental sculptor; Paris avant-garde years, 1936 Olympic silver, New Reich Chancellery statues, denazification as fellow traveler, postwar West German career.
Arnold Böcklin
Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901), Swiss Symbolist painter of Die Toteninsel (Isle of the Dead), five versions; trained in Düsseldorf, worked in Rome and Florence; patronized by Schack and Gurlitt; revived by the Surrealists.
Arnold Genthe
Arnold Genthe (1869–1942) was a German-born American photographer known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake and his soft-focus portraits of celebrities.
Arnold Krog
Arnold Krog was a Danish architect and painter who, as artistic director of the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory from 1885 to 1916, created the blue underglaze painting style.
Arnold Machin
Arnold Machin (1911–1999) was an English sculptor, ceramicist, and teacher whose relief of Queen Elizabeth II appears on British decimal coinage from 1968 and definitive stamps since 1967.
Arnold Newman
Arnold Newman (1918–2006) was an American photographer generally acknowledged as the pioneer of the environmental portrait, made in the subject's home or workplace; his 1946 portrait of Igor Stravinsky is his most iconic image.
Arnolfini Portrait
The Arnolfini Portrait (also Arnolfini Wedding) is Jan van Eyck's signed 1434 oil-on-oak double portrait in the National Gallery, London, probably of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, famous for its convex mirror and disputed meaning.
Arpita Singh
Arpita Singh (born 1937) is an Indian painter whose densely layered, dreamlike works center on women, domestic life, and political violence; she received the Padma Bhushan in 2011.
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky, born Vostanik Manoug Adoian (1904 to 1948), was an Armenian-born American painter who linked European surrealism with abstract expressionism, becoming a pivotal figure in American modernism.
Art and Liberty Group
The Art and Liberty Group (جماعة الفن والحرية, Art et Liberté) was a Cairo-based collective of Egyptian and foreign surrealist writers and artists, founded in December 1938.
Art Deco
Art Deco, also called Style Moderne or Jazz Moderne, is a French-origin international decorative style of 1919 to 1939 named after the 1925 Paris Exposition, defined by geometric ornament, bright colors, and machine-age glamour.
Art Deco architecture
Art Deco architecture: decorative 1920s-1930s style from France, named after the 1925 Paris Exposition, defined by vertical lines, setbacks, terra cotta, and geometric ornament, with landmarks like the Chrysler Building and Mumbai's Indo-Deco ensembles.
Art Deco architecture of New York City
Art Deco architecture of New York City: interwar (mid-1920s to 1930s) buildings, also called modernistic, shaped by the 1916 zoning setbacks; Chrysler Building, Empire State, Barclay-Vesey; 900+ surviving buildings cataloged by ADSNY.
Art Deco in the United States
Art Deco in the United States was the American branch of the decorative and architectural style of the 1920s and 1930s, flourishing in skyscrapers, theaters, and consumer products.
Art director
Art director: a creative professional who sets visual direction and directs artists producing artwork, in advertising, publishing, film, and digital media; US SOC 27-1011, May 2025 median wage $114,850.
Art forgery
Art forgery: fraudulent misattribution of artworks in an artist's style (distinguished from fakes and copies). Covers the three authentication pillars, famous forgers like Han van Meegeren, forensic pigment tests, and market impact.
Art history
Art history is a historical humanities discipline studying the visual arts, chiefly painting, sculpture, and architecture, in their historical context, asking how styles and practices changed over time.
Art Informel
Art Informel, also known as art autre, is a French term for gestural, improvisatory abstract painting of the 1940s and 1950s, coined by critic Michel Tapié in 1951.