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Nouveau réalisme
Nouveau réalisme (French for "New Realism") was a European art movement founded in Paris in 1960 by Pierre Restany and Yves Klein, using real urban objects.
Nova (Richard Rider)
Nova (Richard Rider) is a Marvel Comics cosmic superhero created by Marv Wolfman, debuting in Nova #1 (September 1976). A dying Nova Centurion, Rhomann Dey, gave Rider the Nova Force; he joined the New Warriors, led the Annihilation era, and is slated for an MCU film.
Novgorod school of icon painting
The Novgorod school of icon painting (Новгородская школа иконописи) was a medieval Russian school of religious painting formed in Veliky Novgorod by the 13th century.
Novgorod school of monumental painting
The Novgorod school of fresco painting is the medieval tradition of church wall painting that developed in Veliky Novgorod between the 11th and 15th centuries.
Nubian Christian wall painting
Nubian Christian wall painting is the medieval mural tradition of the Christian kingdoms of Nubia, in present-day Sudan and southern Egypt, from the 6th to the 15th century.
Nude (art)
The nude in art: the unclothed human body as an artistic genre, from Greek athletic ideals and Praxiteles' Knidian Aphrodite through the Renaissance revival, Kenneth Clark's naked/nude distinction, and feminist critique.
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) is Marcel Duchamp's 1912 oil painting of a figure in fragmented motion, rejected by Paris Cubists in 1912 and scandalizing the 1913 Armory Show; now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Nude photography
Nude photography, also called artistic nude or figure photography, is a photographic genre depicting the unclothed human body, dating to 1839; distinct from erotica and from AI nudification imagery, it spans fine art, academic study, and consent-centered contemporary practice.
Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)
Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist) is a 1950 Jackson Pollock drip painting of oil, enamel, and aluminum on canvas, 221 x 299.7 cm, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington; Clement Greenberg named it, and it contains no lavender pigment.
Number 1A, 1948
Number 1A, 1948 is a large 1948 drip painting by Jackson Pollock, made with oil and enamel on canvas and held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Nymph of the Luo River
Nymph of the Luo River (Luoshen fu tu) is a Chinese handscroll painting attributed to Gu Kaizhi, illustrating Cao Zhi's rhapsody about the Luo River goddess.
Nymphenburg Commedia dell'arte figures
Sixteen hard-paste porcelain figurines of Italian comedy characters modeled by Franz Anton Bustelli at the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory near Munich around 1759–60, among the finest eighteenth-century porcelain sculptures.
Oath of the Horatii
Oath of the Horatii (Le Serment des Horaces) is Jacques-Louis David's 1784-85 Neoclassical oil painting in the Louvre, a royal commission showing three Roman brothers swearing an oath to fight the Curiatii of Alba.
Obelix
Obelix (Obélix) is the huge, superhumanly strong Gaul of the Asterix comics created by Goscinny and Uderzo in 1959 for Pilote, permanently strong from a childhood magic-potion fall, fond of boars and menhirs, owner of Dogmatix.
Oblation (statue)
The Oblation (Filipino: Pagbahanod) is a 1935 sculpture by Guillermo Tolentino depicting a young man with outstretched arms, serving as the iconic symbol of the University of the Philippines.
Oblique Strategies
Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a card deck for breaking creative blocks, created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, first published 1975 in a 113-card, 500-copy signed edition; used on Bowie's Berlin trilogy.
Óc Eo art
Óc Eo art is the art of the Funan kingdom's civilization in the Mekong Delta from the 1st to the 8th century CE, blending Indian influence with local craft.
Octo Mundi Miracula
Octo Mundi Miracula, Latin for "Eight Wonders of the World," is a series of eight engravings published in 1572 in Antwerp, showing the Seven Wonders together with the Colosseum.
Odalisque
An odalisque, originally a female servant in an Ottoman household, became in European art the name for a painting of a reclining nude in an imagined harem.
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon (1840–1916), French Symbolist painter and printmaker known for his black charcoal and lithograph noirs, then luminous pastels; celebrated via Huysmans's À rebours and the 2011 Grand Palais retrospective.
Office at Night
Office at Night is a 1940 oil painting by Edward Hopper showing a man and a woman alone in a late-night office, held by the Walker Art Center.
Official portraits of Donald Trump
Official portraits of Donald Trump: the 2017 Shealah Craighead photograph, the 2025 Daniel Torok portraits (revised June 2, 2025), GPO distribution, the unshown Ronald Sherr Smithsonian painting, and the Melania Trump portrait.
Ogata Kenzan
Ogata Kenzan (尾形乾山, 1663–1743) was a Japanese potter and painter of the mid-Edo period, brother of Rinpa artist Ogata Kōrin, known for Kenzan ware, a richly decorated Kyoto ceramic style.
Ogata Kōrin's Lacquer Writing Box
Ogata Kōrin's Lacquer Writing Box is an Edo-period National Treasure by the Rinpa artist Ogata Kōrin, depicting irises and a bridge from the Tales of Ise.
Oh Se-chang
Oh Se-chang, pen name Wi-chang (1864–1953), was a Korean independence activist, calligrapher, and journalist who signed the 1919 Korean Declaration of Independence as one of 33 representatives.
Oil paint
Oil paint is pigment dispersed in a drying oil such as linseed, walnut, or poppy oil, curing by oxidation and polymerization rather than evaporation. Known for slow drying, glazes, impasto, and fat-over-lean layering; dominant in European painting since the sixteenth century.
Oil painting
Oil painting: technique using pigments mixed with a drying oil such as linseed, drying slowly by oxidation. Known from Bamiyan murals around 650 AD; dominant in Europe from the 16th century after van Eyck.
Ōkubi-e
Ōkubi-e (大首絵, "large head pictures") is a Japanese ukiyo-e print format showing an actor or beautiful woman from the chest up, emerging in the 1780s and flourishing in the 1790s.
Okumura Masanobu
Okumura Masanobu (奥村政信, 1686–1764) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist and publisher of the mid-Edo period, active in Edo and credited with inventing the perspective print and the pillar print.
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson (born 1967, Copenhagen) is an Icelandic-Danish installation artist behind The weather project (Tate Modern, 2003), Ice Watch, and Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, known for light, water, and climate-themed art.