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Rat Fink
Rat Fink is a grotesque green cartoon mouse created in the late 1950s by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth as a deliberately anti-establishment answer to Mickey Mouse.
Rattanakosin style
Rattanakosin style, sometimes called the Bangkok style, is the Thai art and architecture of the Rattanakosin period from 1782, including the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew.
Ravana Shaking Mount Kailasa
Ravana Shaking Mount Kailasa, known iconographically as Ravananugrahamurti, is a Hindu temple sculpture theme showing the demon king Ravana lifting Shiva's mountain, carved across India from about the 5th century.
Raven (DC Comics)
Raven (Rachel Roth) is a DC Comics superheroine created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, debuting in DC Comics Presents #26 (1980). Half-human daughter of the demon Trigon, raised in Azarath, founding New Teen Titan with soul-self and empathic powers, adapted in Teen Titans, Titans, and YA graphic novels.
Raw image format
Raw image format: family of camera file formats (CR2/CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, DNG) storing minimally processed sensor data plus metadata, deferring demosaicing, white balance, and sharpening to computer-side processing; DNG is the open TIFF-based standard.
Ray K. Metzker
Ray K. Metzker (Ray Krueger Metzker, 1931–2014) was an American photographer known for stark, experimental black-and-white cityscapes and Composites, large assemblages of printed film strips, who taught in Philadelphia from 1962.
Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon, born in 1942 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France, is a French photographer and documentary filmmaker who co-founded the Gamma agency and won César Awards for his documentaries.
Razzouk Tattoo
Razzouk Tattoo is a Coptic Christian family workshop in Jerusalem, operating since about 1750. It is the world's longest continuously operating tattoo business, certified by Guinness World Records.
Readymade
A readymade is a work of art made from an existing ordinary object that the artist selects and signs, coined by Marcel Duchamp in New York around 1915.
Realism (art movement)
Realism is a French art movement that flourished from 1840 to the late nineteenth century. Led by Gustave Courbet, it aimed to portray contemporary life and social equality.
Realism (arts)
Realism in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, and, as a named movement, the mid-nineteenth-century French school led by Gustave Courbet that rejected idealized subjects.
Reamker murals of the Silver Pagoda
The Reamker murals of the Silver Pagoda are a painted frieze of Cambodia's Ramayana in Phnom Penh's Royal Palace, executed in 1903–1904 by about 40 Khmer artists.
Rebkong thangka
Rebkong thangka (热贡唐卡), part of the Regong arts, is the Tibetan Buddhist scroll-painting tradition of Rebgong in Tongren County, Qinghai, China, known for natural mineral and plant pigments and UNESCO recognition in 2009.
Reborn doll
Reborn doll (reborn baby): hyper-realistic art doll made by hand-painting, hair-rooting, and weighting a vinyl or silicone kit to imitate a newborn; also called living doll or unliving doll; originated in 1990s United States, sold on eBay from 2002, used for collecting, grief therapy, and dementia doll therapy.
Reclining Buddha (Wat Pho)
Phra Buddha Saiyas (พระพุทธไสยาสน์), the Reclining Buddha of Wat Pho, is a 46-meter-long gilded Buddha image in Bangkok, commissioned by King Rama III in 1832.
Reclining Buddha of Gal Vihara
The Reclining Buddha of Gal Vihara is a 14.12-meter granite Buddha lying on his right side, carved in the 12th century under King Parakramabahu I at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka.
Recycling symbol
The recycling symbol, or Mobius loop, is a triangle of three chasing arrows designed by Gary Anderson in 1970 for a Container Corporation of America contest. It signals recyclability or recycled content, and is public domain.
Red and White Plum Blossoms
Red and White Plum Blossoms (紅白梅図屏風) is a pair of Edo-period folding screens by Ogata Kōrin, a National Treasure held at the MOA Museum of Art in Atami.
Red Hand of Ulster
The Red Hand of Ulster (Lámh Dhearg Uladh) is a red hand emblem of the Irish province of Ulster and the O'Neill family seal, used by both nationalist and unionist communities in Northern Ireland, with origin legends of a severed hand thrown ashore and the dextera Dei.
Red Horse Drawings of the Little Bighorn
The Red Horse Drawings of the Little Bighorn are 42 pictographic drawings made in 1881 by Red Horse, a Miniconjou Lakota chief who fought in the battle.
Red Monastery
The Red Monastery (Arabic: Deir al-Ahmar) is a Coptic Orthodox monastery near Sohag in Upper Egypt, with a Byzantine church preserving extensive late antique wall paintings.
Red Rose of Lancaster
Red Rose of Lancaster: heraldic badge of the English House of Lancaster, dating to Edmund Crouchback and John of Gaunt, little used during the Wars of the Roses until Henry VII fused it with York's white rose into the Tudor Rose; now the emblem of Lancashire.
Refugees
Refugees (流民圖, Liumin Tu) is a monumental ink-and-color handscroll painted by Jiang Zhaohe in 1943 in Japanese-occupied Beiping, depicting more than 100 civilians fleeing war and famine.
Regina Zbarskaya
Regina Zbarskaya (née Kolesnikova, 1935–1987), Soviet fashion model at the All-Union House of Models, called 'the most beautiful weapon of the Kremlin' and 'Soviet Sophia Loren'; star of the 1961 Paris showing, wife of artist Lev Zbarsky, died by suicide at 52.
Reichsadler
Reichsadler, the imperial eagle, the heraldic eagle of German state entities from the Holy Roman Empire onward; one-headed for the king, double-headed (Doppeladler) for emperors from 1433, surviving today as Germany's Bundesadler.
Reiko Smiling
Reiko Smiling (麗子微笑) is a 1921 oil painting by Kishida Ryusei portraying his daughter Reiko with a mysterious smile; it is an Important Cultural Property held by the Tokyo National Museum.
Relativity (M. C. Escher)
Relativity (1953) is a lithograph by Dutch artist M.C. Escher showing three staircases serving three gravity directions, with nine figures walking up and down; edition of 50, held by MoMA, NGA, and Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
Relief
Relief (art): sculpture with figures carved or molded projecting from a flat background; types include high relief (alto), low relief (bas), medium, and sunken relief, plus relief printing.
Reliquary of Sainte-Foy
The Reliquary of Sainte-Foy, known as the Majesté de Sainte-Foy, is a gilded 9th-century statue-reliquary at Conques, France, enclosing the head of the child martyr Saint Foy.
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669), Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker from Leiden and Amsterdam; 314 etchings, The Night Watch (1642), large workshop, subject of the Rembrandt Research Project attribution studies.