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Photomontage
Photomontage, or photocollage, is a composite image made by joining multiple photographs. It first gained attention as a Dadaist vehicle for political protest during the First World War.
Photorealism
Photorealism, also called Superrealism or Hyperrealism, is an art movement begun 1968–69 in New York and California in which artists such as Richard Estes, Chuck Close, and Audrey Flack painted from photographs with airbrushed, brushstroke-free precision.
Phra Achana
Phra Achana (พระอจนะ), meaning "one who is not frightened," is a colossal seated Buddha at Wat Si Chum in Sukhothai, Thailand, about 15 meters tall.
Phra Phuttha Chinnarat
Phra Buddha Chinnarat (พระพุทธชินราช) is a 3.75-meter bronze Buddha image in Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat, Phitsanulok, Thailand, created in the reign of King Lithai of Sukhothai.
Phra Singh Buddha
The Phra Singh Buddha (Phra Phuttha Sihing) is a gilded bronze Buddha image in Wat Phra Singh, Chiang Mai, venerated as the principal sacred image of the Lan Na region.
Phra That Phanom
Phra That Phanom (พระธาตุพนม) is a venerated Buddhist reliquary stupa in That Phanom district, northeastern Thailand, near the Mekong River, dating to about the 7th–8th century.
Phyllis Gates
Phyllis Lucille Gates (1925-2006), American secretary and interior designer, was Rock Hudson's wife from 1955 to 1958 and wrote the 1987 memoir My Husband, Rock Hudson.
Pia Guerra
Pia Guerra is a Canadian American comics artist and editorial cartoonist, born in 1971, known as co-creator of Y: The Last Man and a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Picasso's Blue Period
Picasso's Blue Period (late 1901–mid-1904) is his early phase of near-monochrome blue paintings of poverty, blindness, and despair, triggered by Carles Casagemas's 1901 suicide and followed by the Rose Period.
Pichai Nirand
Pichai Nirand (พิชัย นิรันต์), born 1936, is a Thai painter who moved from expressionist and surrealist work to Buddhist themes and became a National Artist in 2003.
Pichhwai
Pichhwai painting is a devotional Hindu art of large painted cloth hangings placed behind the idol of Krishna as Shrinathji in Nathdwara, Rajasthan, arising in the 17th century.
Pictorialism
Pictorialism was an international art photography movement, active from the 1880s to around 1914, whose camera clubs used soft focus and painterly techniques to establish photography as a fine art.
Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca, born Piero di Benedetto de' Franceschi, was an Italian early Renaissance painter and mathematician from Sansepolcro, Tuscany, known for masterful perspective and works like The Flagellation of Christ.
Piero di Cosimo
Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) was an Italian Renaissance painter of Florence, known for inventive mythological panels, religious altarpieces, and portraits; he trained under Cosimo Rosselli.
Pierre Balmain
Pierre Balmain (1914-1982) was a French couturier who founded the Balmain house in Paris in 1945, created the Jolie Madame style and New French Style, dressed stars and royalty, and led the house until his death.
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) was a French painter and lithographer, a founding member of the Nabis known for intimate domestic interiors, nudes, and landscapes in luminous, intensely worked color.
Pierre Cardin (brand)
Pierre Cardin is a Parisian fashion house founded in 1950 by Italian-born French couturier Pierre Cardin, a leading name of 1960s Space Age fashion known for the 1954 bubble dress.
Pierre Chareau
Pierre Chareau was a French furniture designer, interior decorator, and architect of the Art Deco and modern movement, best known for the Maison de Verre in Paris, built 1928 to 1932.
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe (born 1962, Paris) is a French contemporary artist working across film, living ecosystems, robotics, and AI; Hugo Boss Prize 2002, Documenta 13 Untilled, UUmwelt, Camata, Liminals.
Pierre Puget
Pierre Puget (1620–1694) was a French Baroque sculptor, painter, and architect from Marseille, known for the Versailles marble groups Milon de Crotone and Perseus and Andromeda.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898) was a French painter who dominated large-scale mural decoration in late 19th-century France and became a principal forerunner of Symbolism.
Pierre Verger
Pierre Verger (1902–1996) was a French photographer and ethnologist who settled in Salvador, Brazil, documenting daily life across six continents and becoming a leading scholar of Afro-Brazilian candomblé and Yoruba religion.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), French Impressionist painter born in Limoges, trained as a porcelain painter, showed in the 1874 first Impressionist exhibition, painted over 6,000 works, and kept painting through severe rheumatoid arthritis until his death at Cagnes-sur-Mer.
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823) was a French painter and draughtsman known for soft, sculptural modeling of light, a favorite of the Napoleonic imperial family and a precursor of Romanticism.
Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian (Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, 1872–1944), Dutch painter and De Stijl co-founder, creator of Neoplasticism: black horizontal-vertical grids with red, yellow, blue planes; late New York works Broadway Boogie Woogie and Victory Boogie Woogie.
Pietà
Pietà (Italian for pity and piety), a Christian art subject showing the dead Christ in the Virgin Mary's lap; not a Gospel scene, begun in the 14th century from the German Vesperbild, and most famously Michelangelo's signed 1498–1499 Vatican marble Pietà.
Pietà (Bouguereau)
Pietà (1876) is a monumental oil painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau showing Mary cradling the dead Christ with sorrowing angels, painted as a memorial to his son Georges and now in the Dallas Museum of Art.
Pietà (Michelangelo)
Pietà (Michelangelo), also Vatican Pietà or Madonna della Pietà: 1499 marble sculpture in St. Peter's Basilica of Mary holding the dead Christ; Michelangelo's only signed sculpture, commissioned by Cardinal Jean de Bilhères.
Pieter Aertsen
Pieter Aertsen, called Lange Pier for his height, was a Dutch painter from Amsterdam (c. 1508–1575) who pioneered monumental market and kitchen scenes, notable for his 1551 Meat Stall.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, also known as Brueghel the Elder, was a Netherlandish painter of the Northern Renaissance, known for landscapes and peasant scenes, who died in 1569.