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Prisoners from the Front
Prisoners from the Front is an 1866 oil painting by Winslow Homer depicting Union general Francis Channing Barlow confronting three captured Confederate soldiers; it established his reputation.
Pro Finlandia
Pro Finlandia (Pro Finlandia -mitali) is a gold-plated silver medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland, established in 1943 and awarded only to artists and authors.
Professor Calculus
Professor Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol) is the deaf, absent-minded inventor in Hergé's Tintin comics, debuting in Red Rackham's Treasure and modeled on Auguste Piccard and Paul Eydt.
Progressive Artists' Group
The Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) was an artists' collective founded in Bombay in 1947, months after Indian independence, to create a modern Indian art breaking with colonial and revivalist conventions.
Prometheus (Manship)
Prometheus (Manship): 18-foot, eight-ton gilded cast bronze by Paul Manship at Rockefeller Center's Lower Plaza, debuted January 1934, first gilded 1937, with an Aeschylus inscription and a 2025 regilding.
Prosperous Suzhou
Prosperous Suzhou (Gusu fanhua tu, 姑苏繁华图), originally titled Burgeoning Life in a Resplendent Age, is a 1759 handscroll by Qing court painter Xu Yang depicting the city of Suzhou.
Proto-Renaissance
The Proto-Renaissance, roughly 1200 to 1400, was the transitional phase of Italian art moving from flat Italo-Byzantine style toward naturalism, led by Giotto and Cimabue.
Provoke
Provoke (プロヴォーク) was a Japanese photographic magazine founded in Tokyo in 1968 by Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi, and others, famous for its grainy, blurry, out-of-focus style.
Pskov school of icon painting
The Pskov school of icon painting (Псковская школа иконописи) was a regional school of Old Russian art, active in Pskov from the 13th to 16th centuries.
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (Amore e Psiche) is a Neoclassical marble sculpture by Antonio Canova, completed in 1793 and showing Cupid awakening the mortal Psyche with a kiss.
Psychedelic art
Psychedelic art, also called psychedelic artwork, is the mid- to late-1960s visual movement of acid colors, swirling patterns, and warped lettering centered on San Francisco's Fillmore and Avalon poster scene, with roots in Art Nouveau and Op art.
Psychedelic poster
A psychedelic poster is a San Francisco concert advertisement of 1966 to 1971, with swirling lettering and vibrant colors that became the visual language of the 1960s counterculture.
Pu Ru
Pu Ru (溥儒, 1896–1963), courtesy name Xinyu, was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Qing imperial family, best known for Northern School landscapes and called one of the last literati painters.
Publication history of Batman
Publication history of Batman: the DC Comics character created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, debuting in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939 cover date, on sale March 30), gaining his own title Batman #1 in 1940, and running continuously through Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Modern Ages, reboots, and the 2015 Finger co-creator credit.
Punisher skull
Punisher skull: white fanged skull emblem of Marvel's Frank Castle, debuted 1974 in Amazing Spider-Man #129, refined by Mike Zeck; adopted by US military, police, militias, and extremists, prompting Gerry Conway's BLM reclamation campaign and Marvel logo changes.
Punu masks
Punu masks, known as mukudj or okuyi, are carved wooden face masks of the Punu people of southern Gabon, whitened with kaolin and danced on stilts by male performers.
Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains
Streams and Mountains, Clear and Distant (溪山清遠圖) is a long Southern Song landscape handscroll attributed to Xia Gui, held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Purism
Purism is a French art movement founded by Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, later known as Le Corbusier, which sought a rational, orderly art matched to the machine age.
Pushpamala N.
Pushpamala N., born in Bangalore in 1956, is an Indian artist and pioneer of conceptual art who stages photo-romances casting herself in roles from ethnographic subjects to Bollywood heroines.
Putto
Putto (plural putti): nude, chubby, often winged toddler figure in Western art, from Italian 'boy' (Latin putus); derived from Eros/Cupid and cherubim, revived in Quattrocento Florence by Donatello and Verrocchio, widespread in Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Victorian art.
Pyotr Konchalovsky
Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky (Пётр Петрович Кончаловский, 1876–1956) was a Russian and Soviet painter who co-founded and chaired the Jack of Diamonds avant-garde society in 1910.
Pyxis of al-Mughira
The Pyxis of al-Mughira is a carved ivory cylindrical box made in 968, probably at Madinat al-Zahra near Córdoba, as a gift for the young prince al-Mughira.
Qajar coffeehouse painting
Qajar coffeehouse painting (نقاشی قهوهخانهای), also called khayali-sazi, is a genre of narrative oil painting made for Iranian coffeehouses by self-taught painters in the late Qajar era, depicting Shahnameh heroes, romances, and Shiʿi martyrdom scenes.
Qajar painting
Qajar painting is the painting tradition of Qajar Iran (1789–1925), known for lifesize royal oil portraits commissioned by Fath-Ali Shah and for Kamal al-Mulk's academy, Iran's first, opened in 1911.
Qajar tilework
Qajar tilework is the polychrome ceramic tile decoration produced in Iran during the Qajar dynasty (1779–1924), used on mosques, palaces, and city gates and increasingly shaped by European motifs through the nineteenth century.
Qi Baishi (齐白石)
Qi Baishi (齐白石, 1864–1957), Chinese painter, calligrapher, seal carver, and poet from Xiangtan, Hunan; carpenter turned modern ink master known for shrimp paintings, the 'red flowers, ink leaves' style, and the 931.5-million-yuan Twelve Landscape Screens record.
Qi Gong
Qi Gong (启功), courtesy name Yuanbai, was a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and classical scholar who taught at Beijing Normal University and headed China's national art appraisal committee.
Qian Xuan
Qian Xuan (钱选) was a Chinese painter and poet of Wuxing who refused to serve the Mongol Yuan court and became a leading early Yuan literati painter.
Qianlong court Buddhist art
Qianlong court Buddhist art is the Tibetan Buddhist painting, sculpture, and architecture produced by the Qing imperial court under the Qianlong Emperor, who reigned 1736 to 1795.
Qianlong jade carving
Qianlong jade carving (乾隆玉雕) is the Qing court's jade production during the Qianlong Emperor's reign, 1735 to 1796, considered the most glorious period of Chinese jade carving.