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Robert Langton Douglas
Robert Langton Douglas (1864–1951) was a British art historian, critic, and dealer specializing in Sienese painting, and director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1916 to 1923.
Robert Longo
Robert Longo (born 1953) is an American artist of the Pictures Generation known for monumental hyperrealistic charcoal drawings, especially the iconic series Men in the Cities, and for directing Johnny Mnemonic (1995).
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), American photographer of stylized nudes, flowers, portraits, and S&M imagery; The Perfect Moment censorship controversy, 1988 Whitney retrospective, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991), American Abstract Expressionist painter, printmaker, and collage maker; founder-member and spokesman of the New York School, best known for over 100 Elegies to the Spanish Republic and for the Dedalus Foundation.
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg (1925, Port Arthur, Texas; died 2008), was an American artist best known for the Combines, works joining everyday objects with paintings.
Robert Ryman
Robert Ryman (1930–2019) was an American painter who worked almost exclusively in white paint on square formats for six decades, associated with minimalism, monochrome painting, and conceptual art.
Robert S. Duncanson
Robert S. Duncanson (Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1821–1872) was an American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, praised in his day as the best landscape painter in the West.
Robert Williams (artist)
Robert Williams (artist), born 1943 in Albuquerque, is an American painter and cartoonist, also known as Robt. Williams, who named Lowbrow art with his 1979 book, worked for Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, drew for Zap Comix, painted Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction cover, and co-founded Juxtapoz.
Roberto Matta
Roberto Matta (1911–2002) was a Chilean painter who trained as an architect, joined the Paris Surrealists in the late 1930s, and became a decisive stimulus for Abstract Expressionism.
Roberto Montenegro
Roberto Montenegro, born Roberto Montenegro Nervo, was a Mexican painter from Guadalajara and a founding figure of Mexican Muralism; some specialists call his mural El árbol de la vida the movement's first work.
RoboCop statue
The Detroit RoboCop statue is a bronze sculpture of Peter Weller's 1987 cyborg character, crowdfunded via Kickstarter in 2011 ($67,436 from 2,718 backers), sculpted by Giorgio Gikas, and installed December 3, 2025 in Eastern Market after 15 years.
Roboto
Roboto is Google's neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface by Christian Robertson, released 2011 with Android 4.0, default system font of Android and Material Design, revised in 2014, with Slab, Mono, and Condensed variants.
Rock art
Rock art, also called parietal art, is non-utilitarian human marking on natural rock: petroglyphs (carved), pictographs (painted), and geoglyphs (ground-level motifs like the Nazca Lines), dated by radiocarbon and U-series and conserved worldwide.
Rock art of Matobo Hills
Rock art of Matobo Hills is Stone Age rock painting in granite shelters of the Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe, with over 3,000 recorded sites dating back 13,000 years.
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent (1882–1971) was an American painter, printmaker, and illustrator known for stark landscapes of Newfoundland, Alaska, and Greenland and his celebrated woodcut-illustrated 1930 edition of Moby Dick.
Rocky Steps
Rocky Steps: the 72 steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, famous from the 1976 film Rocky's training run; about 4 million annual visitors; original Rocky statue moved permanently to the top in September 2026, with a Joe Frazier statue at the base.
Rococo
Rococo, also known as the Louis XV style or style rocaille, is an ornamental style of art, decoration, and architecture that emerged in France in the 1720s and dominated Europe until the 1770s.
Rococo architecture
Rococo architecture, also called style rocaille, is an early-to-mid 18th-century French-origin style of light, asymmetrical S- and C-curve ornament, pastel and gilded interiors, and intimate salons, evolving from late Baroque and later displaced by Neoclassicism.
Rococo in Minas Gerais
Rococo in Minas Gerais (rococó mineiro) is the regional variant of the Rococo style that developed in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais in the late 18th century.
Rodney Alan Greenblat
Rodney Alan Greenblat (ロドニー・A・グリーンブラット), American painter and character designer born 1960 in Daly City, California; East Village artist in the 1985 Whitney Biennial and designer of PaRappa the Rapper.
Roger Dean (artist)
Roger Dean (born 1944), English artist and designer famous for Yes and Asia album covers, the Osibisa winged elephant, logos for Virgin Records, Psygnosis and Tetris, and Dragons' Dream publishing.
Roger Fenton
Roger Fenton (1819–1869), English photographer, first Honorary Secretary of the Photographic Society (1853) and creator of 360 Crimean War photographs in 1855, including The Valley of the Shadow of Death; retired from photography in 1862.
Roger Mayne
Roger Mayne (1929–2014) was a British photographer and master of documentary photography, best known for about 1,400 pictures of Southam Street in North Kensington between 1956 and 1961.
Roger Stern
Roger Stern (born 1950 in Noblesville, Indiana) is an American comic book writer and novelist best known for long runs on The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, and Doctor Strange at Marvel Comics.
Rogier van der Weyden
Rogier van der Weyden, born Rogier de le Pasture, was a Flemish painter of Early Netherlandish painting, town painter of Brussels from 1435 until his death in 1464.
Roland Penrose
Sir Roland Penrose (1900–1984), English Surrealist painter, collagist, collector, and curator; co-organizer of the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition, co-founder of the ICA, Picasso's friend and biographer, husband of Lee Miller.
Roll film
Roll film is photographic film wound on a spool with opaque paper backing for daylight handling, used in medium-format cameras since George Eastman's 1885 roll film.
Roman art
Roman art: visual art of ancient Rome and its empire, spanning architecture, sculpture, fresco wall painting, mosaics, and funerary art, shaped by Greek models yet with distinct Roman character.
Roman graffiti
Roman graffiti: informal handwritten writings and drawings scratched or painted on walls across the Greco-Roman world, best preserved at Pompeii and Herculaneum, where over 8,000 inscriptions record daily life.
Roman school
The Roman school (Scuola Romana) is an art-history label for painters centered on Rome, descended from Raphael's workshop and maturing into Baroque classicism, also naming interwar Italian painters.