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Pan American Unity
Pan American Unity is a 1940 fresco mural by Diego Rivera, his largest portable mural and last US work, housed at City College of San Francisco.
Pan Bingheng
Pan Bingheng (潘秉衡, 1912–1970) was a Chinese jade carver, first of the Four Wonders of Northern Jade, known for thin-walled vessels and reviving gold inlaid in jade.
Pan He
Pan He, born Pan Siwei, was a Chinese sculptor from Guangzhou whose work Hard Times entered the national school curriculum, alongside urban sculptures such as the Pioneering Ox.
Pan Tianshou
Pan Tianshou (潘天寿, 1897–1971) was a Chinese painter and art educator known for freehand flower-and-bird painting and finger painting, and one of the Four Masters of twentieth-century Chinese painting.
Pancha Rathas
Pancha Rathas, or the Five Rathas, is a group of five monolithic granite temples carved in the 7th century under the Pallava dynasty at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Pandemonium (painting)
Pandemonium (Le Pandemonium) is an 1841 oil on canvas by John Martin showing Satan conjuring Hell's palace from Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I. Held at the Louvre (RF 2006 21), it follows Martin's 1824 and 1831 engravings and has a Martin-designed serpent-and-dragon frame.
Panorama
Panorama: circular 360-degree painting patented by Robert Barker in 1787 (La Nature à Coup d'Oeil), first shown as a view of Edinburgh; nineteenth-century cyclorama rotundas, survivors like Racławice and Murten, and digital terapixel revival.
Pantone
Pantone (Pantone LLC, Pantone Inc.) is the proprietary color standardization company behind the Pantone Matching System of numbered spot-color inks, 10,000+ color standards, Color of the Year, and the 2022 Adobe subscription dispute.
Paoay Church
Paoay Church, formally the Church of San Agustin, is a Roman Catholic church in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, completed in 1710 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Paolo Roversi
Paolo Roversi (born 1947 in Ravenna) is an Italian fashion photographer based in Paris, known for ethereal Polaroid portraits and decades-long collaborations with Comme des Garçons and Dior.
Paolo Uccello
Paolo Uccello (Paolo di Dono, 1397-1475), Florentine early Renaissance painter famed for linear perspective; his three-panel Battle of San Romano (1432 battle) hangs in the Uffizi, National Gallery London, and Louvre; other works include the Hawkwood fresco.
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese, born Paolo Caliari (1528–1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school, one of the three great sixteenth-century masters of Venice alongside Titian and Tintoretto.
Paper marbling
Paper marbling: floating colors on a thickened liquid bath and transferring the pattern to paper. Traditions include Japanese suminagashi (12th c.), Persian abri and Turkish ebru, and European bookbinding marbling from the 17th century.
Paperinik
Paperinik (Duck Avenger, Superduck, Phantomias, Fantomiald) is Donald Duck's superhero alter ego created in Italy in 1969 by Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi in Topolino, evolving from prankish antihero to the 1990s sci-fi PK reboot.
Papier collé
Papier collé, French for "glued paper," is a collage technique of pasting papers onto a surface, invented by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in 1912 within Cubism.
Papier-mâché
Papier-mâché (French, "chewed paper") is a composite material of paper pulp or layered paper bound with glue, starch, or paste, molded moist and hard when dry; it originated in Asia, reached Europe in the 13th century, and served furniture, dolls, anatomical models, and sculpture.
Papunya Tula
Papunya Tula is an artist company and painting movement founded at Papunya, Northern Territory, where Western Desert men began translating ceremonial designs into acrylic paintings in 1971.
Paracas Textile
The Paracas Textile is a Nasca ceremonial mantle of about 100–300 C.E., held by the Brooklyn Museum since 1938, with a border of ninety three-dimensional figures.
Paranoiac-critical method
The paranoiac-critical method (método paranoico-crítico) is Salvador Dalí's surrealist technique of systematically organizing delirious associations into double images, first published in 1930 and applied to painting, architecture, and research.
Parasite (comics)
Parasite is the name of several DC Comics supervillains, starting with Maxwell Jensen (Action Comics #340, 1966) and best known as Rudy Jones (Fury of Firestorm #58, 1987), Superman foes who drain energy, powers, and memories by touch.
Paris Fashion Week
Paris Fashion Week (Semaine de la mode de Paris) is the ready-to-wear fashion show series held seasonally in Paris, run by the FHCM since 1973.
Paritosh Sen
Paritosh Sen (1918–2008) was an Indian modernist painter and founding member of the Calcutta Group, known for boldly lined, colorful paintings of everyday urban life and satirical caricatures.
Park Re-hyun
Park Re-hyun (pen name Woohyang, 1920–1976) was a Korean painter and printmaker who moved from figurative ink-wash painting of everyday life to abstraction and, late in life, to etching and aquatint.
Park Seo-bo
Park Seo-bo (박서보, born Park Jae-hong, 1931–2023) was a South Korean painter credited as the father of the Dansaekhwa monochrome movement, best known for his Ecriture series of canvases.
Park Soo-keun
Park Soo-keun (박수근, 1914–1965) was a self-taught Korean painter often called Korea's national painter, known for gray, granite-like oil paintings of ordinary people, especially women and children.
Parmigianino
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, 1503 to 1540) was an Italian painter and etcher from Parma, a leading originator of Mannerism known for the unfinished Madonna of the Long Neck.
Parsing Bill
Parsing Bill is a 2012 oil painting by Australian-born artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid, an MFA thesis work at the New York Academy of Art depicting Bill Clinton in a blue dress; it became famous for hanging in Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse, with ownership provenance still disputed.
Parsons School of Design
Parsons School of Design, known as Parsons, is a private art and design college in New York City, part of The New School. Founded in 1896 as the Chase School, renamed Parsons in 1941, it pioneered fashion, graphic, and interior design study and enrolls over 5,700 students.
Parsuna
Parsuna (парсуна), from the Latin persona, is a genre of Russian portrait painting of the 17th and early 18th centuries, transitional between icon painting and the secular portrait.
Pashupati seal
The Pashupati seal, also called Seal 420 or the Proto-Shiva seal, is a steatite stamp seal from Mohenjo-daro showing a horned seated figure among animals. John Marshall's proto-Shiva identification remains disputed; the Indus script is undeciphered.