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Past Times
Past Times is a 1997 acrylic and collage painting by Kerry James Marshall, the final work of his Garden Project series, showing African American figures at leisure in an idealized Chicago park scene.
Pastel
Pastel is a dry art medium of powdered pigment and minimal binder formed into sticks, prized for color purity closest to dry pigment. Distinct from oil pastels (wax and non-drying oil, never dry); fragile powdery surface, fixatives discolour, 18th-century golden age, Degas its leading modern master.
Pat Dugan
Pat Dugan, alias Stripesy and later S.T.R.I.P.E., is a DC Comics hero created by Jerry Siegel and Hal Sherman, debuting in Action Comics #40 (1941) as the adult sidekick of the Star-Spangled Kid and stepfather of Stargirl.
Pat McGrath (make-up artist)
Pat McGrath (born 1966), British make-up artist from Northampton, founder of Pat McGrath Labs, first make-up artist made a dame (D.B.E. 2021), CFDA Founder's Award 2017, Louis Vuitton cosmetics creative director, brand entered Chapter 11 in 2026.
Pat Mills
Pat Mills, the 'Godfather of British comics', is the creator and first editor of 2000 AD (1977), developer of Judge Dredd, and writer of Charley's War, Sláine, Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law, and Misty; his Doctor Who strip The Star Beast became a 2023 TV special.
Patachitra
Patachitra (পটচিত্র) is a cloth-based scroll and icon painting tradition of eastern India, covering the temple-centered Odisha school and the sung narrative scrolls of Bengal's Patua painters.
Patachitra of Odisha
Patachitra of Odisha (Odia: ପଟ୍ଟଚିତ୍ର) is a traditional cloth and palm-leaf painting of Jagannath, Krishna Leela, and the Hindu epics, tied to Puri's Jagannath Temple and centered on Raghurajpur.
Patrick Nagel
Patrick Nagel (1945-1984), American illustrator of stylized Art Deco-influenced women for Playboy; created Duran Duran's 1982 Rio cover, from a Vogue Paris photo of Marcie Hunt identified in 2024.
Pattie Boyd
Pattie Boyd (Patricia Ann Boyd, born 1944) is an English model, photographer, and author, wife of George Harrison then Eric Clapton, muse of "Something" and "Layla", and creator of a major photographic archive.
Paubha
Paubha (पौभा) is a religious scroll painting on cloth made by Newar artists of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, depicting Tantric Buddhist and Hindu deities; the Tibetan thangka developed from this tradition.
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), French Post-Impressionist painter of Aix-en-Provence; Mont Sainte-Victoire, Card Players, apples, bathers; constructive brushstrokes and color-built form influenced Cubism, Fauvism, Picasso, and Matisse.
Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), Belgian painter of dreamlike nocturnal scenes with nude women, skeletons, and railway stations; associated with Belgian Surrealism alongside Magritte but never a formal member of any Surrealist group.
Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin (Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and printmaker who abandoned a Paris stockbroker career, pioneered Synthetism with bold non-naturalistic color, and spent his final years in Tahiti and the Marquesas.
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (1879–1940) was a Swiss-German painter and Bauhaus teacher whose color-centered, small-scale work, shaped by his 1914 Tunisia journey, made him a founding figure of classical modernism.
Paul Pope
Paul Pope (born 1970) is an American cartoonist and designer in New York City, creator of THB, Heavy Liquid, 100%, Batman: Year 100, and Battling Boy; Reuben and Eisner Award winner, distinct from the British photographer Paul Pope of Birmingham.
Paul Rand
Paul Rand (Peretz Rosenbaum, 1914-1996), American Modernist graphic designer; created the IBM, UPS, ABC, Westinghouse, and NeXT logos; author of Thoughts on Design; Yale professor of graphic design.
Paul Signac
Paul Signac (1863–1935) was a French painter who, with Georges Seurat, founded Neo-Impressionism, applying small dots of pure color that blend in the viewer's eye.
Paul Strand
Paul Strand, born Nathaniel Paul Stransky, was an American photographer and filmmaker, 1890 to 1976, whose straight, unmanipulated images made him one of the 20th century's most influential photographers.
Paul Troost
Paul Ludwig Troost (1878–1934) was a German architect and interior designer, Hitler's favored architect of the early Nazi regime, designer of Munich's House of German Art, Führerbau, and Königsplatz buildings in stripped neoclassicism.
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), German pioneer of Expressionism; worked in Worpswede and Paris; first woman to paint nude self-portraits; over 700 paintings; Bremen museum opened 1927.
Paula Rego
Paula Rego (1935–2022) was a Portuguese-British visual artist, one of Europe's leading figurative artists, whose narrative paintings and pastels drew on Portuguese folklore and fairy tales.
Paula Scher
Paula Scher, born 1948, is an American graphic designer and Pentagram partner known for The Public Theater identity, her typographic maps, and the Citibank logo.
Paulo Picasso
Paulo Picasso (Paul Joseph Picasso, 1921–1975), eldest child of Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova; model for Paul en Arlequin (1924); died 1975; father of Pablito Picasso.
Pavel Filonov
Pavel Filonov (Павел Филонов, 1883–1941) was a Russian avant-garde painter and art theorist who founded analytical art and taught that a painting should be built up atom by atom like a living organism.
Pavel Tchelitchew (Павел Фёдорович Челищев)
Pavel Tchelitchew (Павел Фёдорович Челищев), 1898–1957, Russian-born Surrealist and Neo-Romantic painter and stage designer active in Kiev, Berlin, Paris, and New York; best known for the multiple-image metamorphic canvas Hide-and-Seek at MoMA.
Pavilions and Sails on the River
Pavilions and Sails on the River (江帆楼阁图) is a blue-green landscape hanging scroll attributed to Tang painter Li Sixun and held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Peacock Throne
Peacock Throne (Takht-i Tavus, تخت طاووس), the jeweled Mughal imperial throne commissioned by Shah Jahan in 1628, set with the Koh-i-Noor and Timur Ruby, looted by Nader Shah in 1739 and dismantled after 1747; distinct from the Qajar Sun Throne in Tehran.
Peder Severin Krøyer
Peder Severin Krøyer, known as P.S. Krøyer (1851–1909), was a Danish painter and central figure of the Skagen Painters, celebrated for his blue-toned 'blue hour' beach scenes.
Pedro Berruguete
Pedro Berruguete (c. 1450–1503) was a Spanish painter who worked for Duke Federico da Montefeltro at Urbino and became the leading Castilian painter under the Catholic Monarchs.
Pei Shimin
Pei Shimin, also known as Pei Deming, was a Chinese master of Yixing zisha pottery, famed for restoring the Gongchun teapot and called "Second Chen Mingyuan".