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Art movement
Art movement: a shared style and philosophy followed by a group of artists over a defined period, from Renaissance (1400–1600) to Pop Art; also called artistic movements or styles.
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau (New Art; Jugendstil, Sezessionstil, Stile Liberty) was an international decorative style of about 1890–1914, marked by whiplash curves, organic plant forms, and total interior design, named after Siegfried Bing's 1895 Paris gallery.
Art Nouveau glass
Art Nouveau glass is art glass produced in the Art Nouveau style of roughly 1890 to 1914, with its leading center in Nancy, France, under Émile Gallé.
Art of ancient Egypt
Art of ancient Egypt: painting, sculpture, architecture, and minor arts of the lower Nile Valley, c. 3100 BCE unification to Roman Period 395 CE; conventions, polychromy, faience amulets, colossal statuary, and the Amarna style.
Art of Europe
Art of Europe, or Western art, is the visual art of European countries and European-derived traditions, running from classical Greece and Rome through medieval Christian, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern periods to today, now studied through global approaches.
Art of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom
Fan-created visual art of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (bronies fandom), spanning drawings, animation, comics, and crafts, centered on the Mane Six and organized through Equestria Daily, DeviantArt, Fimfiction, and conventions like BronyCon.
Art Smith (jeweler)
Art Smith (Arthur George Smith) was an American modernist studio jeweler who worked in Greenwich Village from 1946 to 1979, creating large, biomorphic jewelry in brass, copper, and silver.
Arte Povera
Arte Povera is an Italian art movement of the late 1960s whose artists made sculpture from humble, impermanent materials such as rags, soil, and coal.
Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi, also known as Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi, was an Italian Baroque painter, born in Rome in 1593, considered the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century.
Artemision Bronze
The Artemision Bronze is an ancient Greek bronze statue of a nude, bearded god, dated to about 460 BC and displayed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
Arthur Dove
Arthur Dove (Arthur Garfield Dove, 1880–1946) was an American painter and collagist, the first twentieth-century American artist to make purely abstract paintings, exhibiting nonobjective pastels at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery in 1912.
Arthur Elgort
Arthur Elgort (born 1940, New York City) is an American fashion photographer whose candid, movement-driven snapshot style debuted in British Vogue in 1971 and reshaped fashion imagery; also known for jazz and ballet photography and as father of Sophie and Ansel Elgort.
Arthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham (1867–1939), English book illustrator of the Golden Age of British illustration, known for Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Alice in Wonderland.
Arthur Wesley Dow
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922) was an American landscape painter, printmaker, and art educator based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, whose composition method from Japanese prints influenced Georgia O'Keeffe and American art schools.
Artist
Artist: a creator in visual art, music, literature, or performance; also "indie artist" in music, meaning self-releasing without a major label. Covers definitions, masters ownership, precarity, and platforms.
Artist collective
Artist collective: a durable group of artists with shared authorship and shared decision-making, also called art collectives or artist cooperatives. Roots in Futurism, Dada, Situationists; 2021 Turner Prize shortlist was all collectives; ruangrupa curated documenta 15.
Artist's Shit
Artist's Shit (Merda d'artista), Piero Manzoni's 1961 edition of 90 tins, 30 grams each, priced by weight at the gold price; held by MoMA, Pompidou, and DIA.
Arts and Crafts movement
The Arts and Crafts movement, a British design and social reform movement of the late 19th century led by William Morris and inspired by John Ruskin, opposed industrial mass production, took its name from the 1887 Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, and influenced Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus, and mingei.
Arts in the Philippines
Arts in the Philippines: sining, spanning precolonial indigenous forms, Spanish colonial sacred art, and a modern contemporary scene; eight arts per the CCP Encyclopedia; PHP2.12-trillion creative economy.
Artsy
Artsy is a New York-based online marketplace for discovering and buying fine art, founded in 2009 by Carter Cleveland and known for its Art Genome Project classification system.
Arturo Luz
Arturo Luz (1926–2021) was a Filipino modernist painter, sculptor, and designer named National Artist for Visual Arts in 1997, known for a linear, geometric style.
Ary Scheffer
Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), Dutch-born French Romantic painter from Dordrecht, trained under Guérin in Paris; drawing master to Louis-Philippe's children; known for Faust, Paolo and Francesca, and religious works; his rue Chaptal studio is now the Musée de la Vie romantique.
Asafo flags
Asafo flags (Fante: frankaa, plural mfrankaa) are appliquéd and embroidered ceremonial flags of the Fante asafo military companies of coastal Ghana, often depicting Akan proverbs.
ASCII art
ASCII art: pictures built from printable ASCII characters (strictly the 95 printable glyphs of the 1963 standard), also called text art. Roots in typewriter art and line printers; flourished on BBSes alongside ANSI art; now studied as an AI perception benchmark and accessibility challenge.
Asgardians (Marvel Comics)
Asgardians are Marvel Comics' fictional race of godlike humanoids native to Asgard, first appearing in Journey into Mystery #83 (1962) via Lee, Lieber, and Kirby; worshipped by the Norse, long-lived warriors including Thor, later featured in Asgardians of the Galaxy (2018-2019).
Asger Jorn
Asger Jorn, born Asger Oluf Jørgensen, was a Danish painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and writer who co-founded CoBrA in 1948 and the Situationist International in 1957.
Ashcan School
Ashcan School: American urban realist painters of the early 1900s, also called New York Realists, led by Robert Henri with Sloan, Glackens, Luks, Shinn, and Bellows, known for gritty New York City scenes and the 1908 exhibition of The Eight.
Asher Brown Durand
Asher Brown Durand (1796–1886) was an American engraver and landscape painter of the Hudson River School, called the dean of American landscape painting after Thomas Cole's death in 1848.
Ashura of Kōfuku-ji
The Ashura of Kōfuku-ji (興福寺阿修羅像, Ashura-zō) is a National Treasure dry-lacquer statue made in 734 for Kōfuku-ji temple in Nara, Japan, shown with three faces and six arms and regarded as a masterpiece of Tenpyō sculpture.
Asmat wood carving
Asmat wood carving is the sculptural tradition of the Asmat people of southwestern New Guinea, Indonesia, whose carvers make ancestor figures, shields, drums, canoes, and tall memorial bisj poles.