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Rembrandt Peale
Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860) was an American portrait painter and son of Charles Willson Peale, best known for painting George Washington more than 79 times, including the "porthole" likeness bought by Congress in 1832.
Remedios Varo
Remedios Varo (María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga, 1908-1963), Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter; emigrated to Mexico 1941; known for alchemical, mystical paintings and the Museo de Arte Moderno collection.
Renaissance art
Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture, and decorative art produced in Europe from the early fifteenth to the late sixteenth century, reviving classical Greek and Roman values.
Renaissance Egg
The Renaissance Egg is an 1894 Imperial Fabergé Easter egg that Tsar Alexander III gave to Empress Maria Feodorovna, now in the Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg.
René Burri
René Burri (1933–2014) was a Swiss photographer and Magnum Photos member, best known for his 1963 portrait of Che Guevara smoking a cigar and for portraits of Picasso, Giacometti, and Le Corbusier.
René Lalique
René Lalique (1860–1945) was a French jeweler and glassmaker, celebrated for Art Nouveau jewelry and, after 1912, Art Deco glass, including perfume bottles for François Coty.
René Magritte
René Magritte (1898–1967), Belgian Surrealist painter, also called 'the treachery of images' artist. Born in Lessines, died in Brussels of pancreatic cancer; known for the pipe painting 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe', bowler hats, and record 2022 auction prices.
Renegade Canyon petroglyphs
The Renegade Canyon petroglyphs are a major concentration of Native American rock engravings in Renegade Canyon, in the Coso Range of eastern California, within Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano (born 1937, Genoa) is an Italian architect, Pritzker Prize 1998 winner and founder of Renzo Piano Building Workshop, known for the Centre Pompidou with Richard Rogers, Kansai airport, The Shard, and the Whitney Museum.
Replicas of the Statue of Liberty
Replicas of the Statue of Liberty, also called copies of Liberty Enlightening the World, number in the hundreds worldwide. Key examples include the Boy Scouts' 1949–1952 Strengthen the Arm of Liberty campaign, Paris's eight replicas, and Danh Vo's 1:1 We The People.
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, also Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto, is Ilya Repin's 1880–1891 oil painting of the legendary 1676 Cossack reply to Sultan Mehmed IV, held in the State Russian Museum with a second version in Kharkiv.
Rerun Van Pelt
Rerun Van Pelt is the youngest Van Pelt sibling in Peanuts, born into the strip 1972, first appearing March 26, 1973, a bicycle-riding minor character who became a kindergarten-age lead in the strip's final 1990s years.
Resurgence of the People
Resurgence of the People is a monumental 2019 acrylic painting by Cree Canadian artist Kent Monkman, made for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Great Hall in New York.
Retro style
Retro style: deliberate revival of earlier, especially mid-20th-century, design and fashion forms reworked for the present; coined by London designers in 1970s fashion; distinct from vintage originals.
Retrofuturism
Retrofuturism is an aesthetic and creative movement engaging with past visions of the future, dated to the late 1970s-1980s; term coined by Lloyd Dunn in 1983; related to steampunk, raygun Gothic, dieselpunk, atompunk.
Reverse-Flash
Reverse-Flash is the DC Comics speedster villain Eobard Thawne, also called Professor Zoom, the archenemy of Barry Allen's Flash. Debuted in The Flash #139 (1963) by Broome and Infantino; creator of the Negative Speed Force; succeeded at times by Zoom/Hunter Zolomon and Daniel West.
Revue Noire
Revue Noire was a Paris-based quarterly magazine devoted to contemporary African art and creation, published bilingually from 1991 to 1999, founded by Jean Loup Pivin and Simon Njami.
Reza Deghati
Reza Deghati (رضا دقتی), known professionally as Reza, is an Iranian-French photojournalist based in Paris who photographed the 1979 Iranian Revolution and founded the Aina media-training organization in Afghanistan.
Rhein II
Rhein II (Rhine II) is a 1999 large-format digitally edited color photograph of the Rhine near Düsseldorf by Andreas Gursky; an edition of six C-prints, one sold for about $4.3 million in 2011.
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), private art and design college and museum in Providence, RI, founded 1877 by women led by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf; about 2,577 students, 40+ degree programs, president Crystal Williams since 2022.
Riace bronzes
Riace bronzes (Bronzi di Riace), two full-size Greek bronze warriors of about 460-440 BC found off Riace Marina, Calabria, in 1972 and displayed in Reggio Calabria.
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (1923–2004), American fashion and portrait photographer for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and The New Yorker; known for white-background portraiture, In the American West (1985), and two Met shows.
Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993), American California painter of the Bay Area Figurative Movement and Ocean Park abstract series; BA Stanford, MA New Mexico; also known as Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr.; alternated abstraction and figuration from 1955 to 1988.
Richard Dragon
Richard Dragon (Richard Drakunovski) is a DC Comics martial artist created by Dennis O'Neil and Jim Berry in the 1974 novel Dragon's Fists, adapted into the 1975-1977 comic Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter; mentor to the Question, Huntress, and Bruce Wayne, later replaced by the villain Ricardo Diaz.
Richard Estes
Richard Estes (born 1932, Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter considered a founding practitioner of Photorealism, known for meticulous, depopulated New York cityscapes rich in reflections.
Richard Hamilton (artist)
Richard Hamilton (1922–2011), English painter, printmaker, and collagist, founder of British Pop art, creator of the 1956 collage Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? and Duchamp collaborator.
Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach (born 1949) is an American photographer based in Berkeley, California, known for large-format color photographs of the American West and his ongoing Desert Cantos series.
Richard Prince
Richard Prince (born 1949, Panama Canal Zone) is an American appropriation artist of the Pictures Generation known for rephotographed Marlboro Cowboys, Spiritual America, Jokes, and Instagram New Portraits, and for copyright cases including Cariou, Graham, and McNatt.
Richard Riemerschmid
Richard Riemerschmid (1868–1957) was a German painter, architect, and furniture designer who led Munich Jugendstil, co-founded the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907, and planned the garden city Hellerau.
Richard Sapper
Richard Sapper (1932–2015) was a German industrial designer based in Milan who created the Tizio lamp for Artemide and the original IBM ThinkPad, and served as IBM's chief design consultant.