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Asmitha Neelamegam
Asmitha Neelamegam (அஸ்மிதா நீலமேகம், also Ashmitha), born 1992, is a Chennai bridal makeup artist, makeup educator, and former Tamil actress (Karungali, 2011) competing in Bigg Boss Tamil season 10.
Assemblage (art)
Assemblage is a sculptural technique in which artworks are assembled from found objects, discarded materials, and everyday items rather than carved or modeled, a term coined by Jean Dubuffet in the early 1950s.
Association Typographique Internationale
The Association Typographique Internationale, or ATypI, is an international nonprofit for typography and typeface design, founded in 1957 by Charles Peignot and best known for its annual conference.
Asterix the Gaul
Asterix the Gaul (Astérix le Gaulois) is the 1961 first album of the French Asterix comic series by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, debuting in Pilote in 1959; it founded the indomitable Gaulish village premise and Europe's best-selling bande dessinée.
Astrid Kirchherr
Astrid Kirchherr (1938–2020) was a German photographer from Hamburg best known for her stark black-and-white portraits of the Beatles in Hamburg in the early 1960s, and for her engagement to their original bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe.
Astrophotography
Astrophotography is the photography of astronomical objects and the night sky, including the Moon, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies. It began as a scientific tool in the 19th century.
At Eternity's Gate
At Eternity's Gate, also titled Sorrowing Old Man, is Vincent van Gogh's May 1890 oil painting of a despairing old man, painted at the Saint-Rémy asylum from his 1882 lithograph Worn Out, now in the Kröller-Müller Museum.
At the Optometrist
At the Optometrist (The Oculist, New Glasses) is Norman Rockwell's 1956 oil painting of a reluctant boy being fitted for glasses, a May 19, 1956 Saturday Evening Post cover, held by the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts since 1957.
Atelier
Atelier: French word for an artist's workshop or studio, also the small-group studio school where a master painter trains dedicated students, historically alongside guilds and academies.
Athena Parthenos
Athena Parthenos (Ἀθηνᾶ Παρθένος), the lost chryselephantine cult statue by Phidias (Φειδίας) in the Parthenon, dedicated 438 BC; nearly 12 m tall, over a ton of removable gold plates, known from Pausanias, Pliny, and Roman copies like the Varvakeion statuette.
Atom Eve
Atom Eve, Samantha Eve Wilkins, is a superheroine from the Invincible comic series. She can transmute matter at the subatomic level, and her powers are limited by mental blocks.
Attarouthi Treasure
The Attarouthi Treasure is a hoard of 15 Byzantine silver liturgical vessels made in Attarouthi, Syria, between 500 and 650, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Atul Dodiya
Atul Dodiya is an Indian contemporary painter and installation artist, born in Mumbai in 1959, known for roller-shutter paintings, painted cabinets, and works on Mahatma Gandhi.
Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898), British illustrator of the fin de siècle and English Art Nouveau, known for black-and-white line-block drawings for Le Morte Darthur, Wilde's Salome, The Yellow Book, and The Savoy.
Aubrey Vanderbilt Cecil
Aubrey Vanderbilt Cecil (Aubrey Lea Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil Baliles), great-great-granddaughter of George and Edith Vanderbilt, is an Asheville jewelry designer and founder of Avermore, a Biltmore-inspired fine jewelry brand.
Aubusson tapestry
Aubusson tapestry is a hand-woven textile art produced since the 15th century in Aubusson and Felletin in central France, known for large decorative wall hangings.
Audrey Munson
Audrey Munson (1891–1996), aka Miss Manhattan and the American Venus, was an American artists' model and silent film actress, called America's first supermodel; she posed for Beaux-Arts sculptors including French, Weinman, and Calder, starred in Inspiration (1915) and Purity (1916), and died in a New York state hospital at 104.
August Macke
August Robert Ludwig Macke (1887–1914), German Expressionist painter of Der Blaue Reiter and leading Rhenish Expressionist, formed by French Impressionism, Fauvism, Delaunay's Orphism, and the 1914 Tunisia journey with Klee and Moilliet; killed in World War I at 27.
August Sander
August Sander (1876–1964), German portrait photographer, creator of Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of the Twentieth Century), a seven-category typological portrait atlas of German society; Antlitz der Zeit (1929); suppressed by the Nazis.
Augusta Savage
Augusta Savage, born Augusta Christine Fells, was an American sculptor and art teacher, a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance best known for the bust Gamin and The Harp.
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), French sculptor and founder of modern sculpture; creator of The Thinker, The Kiss, The Gates of Hell, and The Burghers of Calais; failed the Beaux-Arts three times, gained state patronage in 1880, retained rough unfinished surfaces, and donated his works to France in 1916.
Augustus of Prima Porta
Augustus of Prima Porta: over-life-size marble statue of Emperor Augustus in cuirass, found 1863 at Livia's villa, Prima Porta, Rome; 2.03 m; Vatican Braccio Nuovo; Parthian standards scene, Cupid on dolphin, Doryphoros pose.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), Irish-born American Beaux-Arts sculptor active in New York, Paris, Rome, and Cornish, New Hampshire; creator of the Farragut Monument, Shaw Memorial, Standing Lincoln, Adams Memorial, and the 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle gold coin.
Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis is an 1865 oil painting by Frederic Edwin Church depicting explorer Isaac Israel Hayes's ship frozen in Arctic ice beneath the northern lights.
Auspicious Cranes
Auspicious Cranes (瑞鶴圖) is a celebrated 1112 ink-and-color silk handscroll attributed to Northern Song emperor Huizong, depicting twenty cranes above the palace gates of Kaifeng.
Austin Osman Spare
Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956), English artist and occultist, creator of the sigil method and Zos Kia Cultus; precocious Royal Academy exhibitor whose magical writings later seeded the chaos magick movement.
Australian Museum
The Australian Museum (AM), Australia's first museum, founded in Sydney in 1827, is an NSW Government natural science and culture institution holding over 22 million specimens and cultural objects, with free general entry, a Trust-based governance under the 1975 Act, and active First Nations repatriation programs.
Autochrome Lumière
The Autochrome Lumière is an additive color photography process patented in 1903 by Auguste and Louis Lumière, the first industrialized color process, dominant until the 1930s.
Autumn and Winter Landscapes
Autumn and Winter Landscapes (秋冬山水図) is a pair of ink hanging scrolls of autumn and winter scenes by the Japanese Zen painter Sesshū Tōyō, designated National Treasures and held by the Tokyo National Museum.
Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains
Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains (鹊华秋色) is a 1295 handscroll by Yuan artist Zhao Mengfu depicting two mountains near Jinan, Shandong, now in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.