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Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), American Pop artist and painter of comic-strip, advertisement, and Ben-Day-dot paintings such as Girl with Ball and Whaam!, also known for brushstroke, Mirror, and mural series.
Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA), founded in London in 1768 under George III with Joshua Reynolds as first president, is an independent artist-led gallery, art school, and members' institution at Burlington House, home of the annual Summer Exhibition held since 1769 and the free Royal Academy Schools.
Royal Air Force Museum London
The Royal Air Force Museum London, also known as RAF Museum Hendon, is a national aviation museum in Colindale, North London, on the former RAF Hendon airfield.
Royal Courts of Justice (Banksy mural)
Royal Courts of Justice (Banksy mural), also titled 'Royal Courts of Justice, London', a 2025 stenciled Banksy mural of a judge beating a protester, painted on the Queen's Building in London and scrubbed off at a cost of £85,300.
Royal cypher
A royal cypher, or imperial cypher, is the monogram of a ruling monarch, combining initials, R for rex or regina, and a regnal number, topped by a crown.
Royal Gold Cup
The Royal Gold Cup, also called the Saint Agnes Cup, is a solid gold hanap enameled with scenes from the life of Saint Agnes, made in France in the late 14th century.
Ru ware
Ru ware (汝窑) is a Song dynasty Chinese celadon made for the Northern Song imperial court in the early 12th century, prized for its sky-blue glaze and rarity.
Rubbing
A rubbing (tàběn) is a paper copy of text or decoration engraved on stone or bronze, made by dabbing ink over damp paper pressed onto the surface.
Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg (Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg, 1883–1970), American Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and mining-engineering graduate whose invention cartoons of absurdly complicated chain-reaction machines made his name a dictionary adjective.
Rubem Robierb
Rubem Robierb (born 1976, Maranhão, Brazil) is a Brazilian-American multidisciplinary artist working in photography, painting, sculpture, and installation, known for Bullets and Butterflies, Dream Machine, Empower Flower, and Miami's FIFA World Cup 2026 host city poster.
Rubem Valentim
Rubem Valentim (1922–1991) was a self-taught Brazilian painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher from Salvador, Bahia, who became a central figure of twentieth-century Brazilian art through geometric compositions built from Candomblé and Umbanda symbols.
Rudolf Bonnet
Rudolf Bonnet was a Dutch painter who settled in Ubud, Bali, in 1929, co-founded the Pita Maha artists' association in 1936, and helped establish the Museum Puri Lukisan.
Rudolph Schindler (architect)
Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953), Vienna-born American architect of Southern California modernism; trained under Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, worked for Frank Lloyd Wright, built the 1922 Kings Road Schindler House and about 150 buildings, mostly Los Angeles houses.
Rudy VanderLans
Rudy VanderLans (born 1955) is a Dutch graphic designer who co-founded, with type designer Zuzana Licko, the Emigre magazine and digital type foundry in Berkeley, California.
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991) was a Mexican painter and printmaker whose boldly colored, semiabstract paintings combined European modernism with Mexican folk art, standing apart from the political muralists.
Rule of thirds
Rule of thirds: composition guideline dividing an image into a 3x3 grid, placing subjects on lines or intersections. Coined by John Thomas Smith (1797); related to, but distinct from, the golden ratio.
Rumors of War
Rumors of War is a monumental 2019 bronze equestrian sculpture by Kehinde Wiley showing a young African American man in streetwear, created in response to Richmond's Confederate statues.
Running Fence
Running Fence was a temporary 1976 outdoor artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a 24.5-mile-long, 18-foot-high white nylon fence running across Northern California ranchlands into the Pacific Ocean.
Rupert Bear
Rupert Bear, also Rupert the Bear, is an English children's comic strip bear created by Mary Tourtel, first appearing in the Daily Express on 8 November 1920, set in Nutwood, famous for its annuals and text-comic format.
Ruq'ah script
Ruq'ah script (خط الرقعة) is a style of Arabic script created in the Ottoman Empire and codified in 1863, now the everyday handwriting of the eastern Arab world.
Rushana Buddha of Tōshōdai-ji
The Rushana Buddha of Tōshōdai-ji (盧舎那仏坐像) is a National Treasure seated statue of the cosmic Buddha Vairocana in Nara, Japan, carved in dry lacquer in the 8th century.
Russel Wright
Russel Wright (1904–1976) was an American industrial designer from Lebanon, Ohio, whose inexpensive American Modern dinnerware, sold from 1939 to 1959, brought modern design into ordinary American homes.
Russian Art Nouveau
Russian Art Nouveau, known in Russia as modern, is a national variant of the Art Nouveau style that flourished in the Russian Empire from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s.
Russian lacquer miniature
Russian lacquer miniature (лаковая миниатюра) is a craft of painting detailed scenes on lacquered papier-mâché boxes, practiced at four centers: Fedoskino, Palekh, Mstyora, and Kholui.
Russian Revival architecture
Russian Revival architecture, also known as the Russian style, is a historicist style in the Russian Empire that reinterpreted pre-Petrine Russian and folk wooden architecture.
Rustam Lassoes Rakhsh
Rustam Lassoes Rakhsh is an illustrated Persian manuscript painting of about 1330–40 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showing the Shahnama hero Rustam lassoing his future horse Rakhsh.
Ruth Asawa
Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) was an American sculptor in San Francisco known for hanging looped-wire forms inspired by nature and for public fountains and arts education advocacy.
Ruth De Jong
Ruth De Jong, American production designer born in San Bernardino, California; trained under Jack Fisk on There Will Be Blood; designed Manchester by the Sea, Twin Peaks (Emmy nomination), Us, Nope, and Nolan's Oppenheimer (Oscar and BAFTA nominations), and The Odyssey (2026).
Ruth Duckworth
Ruth Duckworth, born Ruth Windmüller, was a German-born modernist sculptor known for abstract, organic ceramics. She fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and settled in Chicago.
Ruth Orkin
Ruth Orkin (1921–1985) was an American photojournalist and filmmaker best known for her 1951 photograph American Girl in Italy and the Oscar-nominated film Little Fugitive.