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Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine (born 1947) is an American conceptual artist known for appropriation art, including rephotographing Walker Evans's Depression-era images in her 1981 After Walker Evans series.
Shi Lu
Shi Lu (石鲁, 1919–1982), born Feng Yaheng, was a Chinese painter and calligrapher who co-founded the Chang'an School in Xi'an; his works include Fighting in Northern Shaanxi (1959).
Shibata Zeshin
Shibata Zeshin (柴田是真, 1807–1891) was a Japanese maki-e master, lacquer artist, and painter known for urushi-e, lacquer painting on paper, and appointed the first Imperial Household Artist in 1890.
Shigeo Fukuda
Shigeo Fukuda (福田繁雄) was a Japanese graphic designer, poster artist, and sculptor known for posters using optical illusion and figure-ground reversal, including the anti-war Victory 1945.
Shigisan Engi Emaki
Shigisan Engi Emaki (信貴山縁起絵巻) is a set of three twelfth-century Japanese narrative handscrolls depicting miracles of the ascetic Myōren, held at Chōgosonshi-ji temple on Mount Shigi in Nara Prefecture.
Shijō school
The Shijō school (四条派, Shijō-ha) is a school of Japanese painting founded in the late eighteenth century by Matsumura Goshun on Shijō street in Kyoto.
Shimen Inscription
The Shimen Inscription (石门颂, "Ode to the Stone Gate") is an Eastern Han cliff inscription carved in 148 CE on the Stone Gate tunnel in Shaanxi, a masterpiece of Han clerical script.
Shin Jae-eun (신재은)
Shin Jae-eun (신재은, @zennyrt) is a South Korean Instagram model and influencer, born 1998 in Seoul, whose August 2018 Maxim Korea cover launched a modeling career; she is the 3D body-scan model for Eve in Shift Up's game Stellar Blade.
Shin-hanga
Shin-hanga (新版画, "new prints") is a Japanese woodblock print movement, created and led by the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō, that revived ukiyo-e collaborative production from around 1915 into the 1960s.
Shingle style architecture
The Shingle style is an American architectural style of the 1880s in which wood shingles cover both walls and roof, developed on the New England coast.
Shinichi Fukuda (福田晋一)
Shinichi Fukuda (福田晋一) is a Japanese female manga artist under a masculine pen name; winner of the 23rd Ace Newcomer Manga Awards Encouragement Award (2006), creator of Shibaraku, Momoiro Meloic, and My Dress-Up Darling (Young Gangan, 2018–2025, 15 volumes, about 13–14 million copies, anime 2022 and 2025).
Shino ware
Shino ware (志野焼) is a Japanese pottery from Mino, Gifu Prefecture, made from the late 16th century and known for its thick, milky-white feldspar glaze.
Shitao
Shitao (石涛, 1642–1707), born Zhu Ruoji into the Ming imperial family, was a Chinese landscape painter and theorist who became a Buddhist monk after the Ming fell.
Shoes (Vincent van Gogh)
Shoes (1888) is Vincent van Gogh's Arles oil painting of worn peasant shoes on the Yellow House's red-tile floor, possibly Patience Escalier's or the artist's own; Met 1992.374, tied to the Heidegger–Schapiro shoe-painting debate.
Shōji Ueda
Shōji Ueda (植田正治, 1913–2000) was a Japanese photographer known for staged, surrealistic group portraits set against the sand dunes of Tottori Prefecture, a style called Ueda-chō.
Shōmei Tōmatsu
Shōmei Tōmatsu (東松照明, 1930–2012) was a Japanese photographer, born in Nagoya, whose raw, grainy style documented postwar Japan for more than fifty years, including Nagasaki bomb survivors.
Shōnen manga (少年漫画)
Shōnen manga (少年漫画), also shonen or shounen manga, is manga published in magazines for boys and teenage males, a demographic category rather than a genre. Key facts: highest-selling manga category; Manga Shōnen founded 1947; Weekly Shonen Jump peaked at 6.5 million copies weekly in the 1990s.
Shōno: Driving Rain
Shōno: Driving Rain is a color woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, number 46 in his Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, showing travelers caught in a sudden downpour.
Shot Marilyns
Shot Marilyns: four of five 1964 Andy Warhol silkscreen portraits of Marilyn Monroe (red, orange, light blue, sage blue backgrounds) shot through by Dorothy Podber at the Factory; Shot Sage Blue Marilyn sold for $195 million in 2022.
Shotaro Kaneda (金田正太郎)
Shotaro Kaneda (金田正太郎) is the protagonist of Katsuhiro Otomo's AKIRA manga and 1988 film: a teenage biker-gang leader in Neo-Tokyo, friend turned enemy of Tetsuo, named after Tetsujin 28-go's hero and famous for his red motorcycle.
Shoushan stone carving
Shoushan stone carving (寿山石雕) is a folk art of Fuzhou, Fujian, carving small ornaments from local Shoushan stone; it joined China's intangible heritage list in 2006.
Shrine of the Three Kings
The Shrine of the Three Kings (Dreikönigenschrein) is a gilded reliquary in Cologne Cathedral holding bones venerated since the twelfth century as those of the Biblical Magi.
Shūbun
Shūbun, also called Tenshō Shūbun, was a Japanese Zen monk-painter, official painter to the Ashikaga shogunate, whose ink landscapes set the standard for his era.
Shunga (春画)
Shunga (春画), "spring pictures", is Japanese erotic art: explicit paintings, prints and books, mostly Edo-period ukiyo-e by artists such as Utamaro and Hokusai. Older names include makura-e and warai-e; it was banned in 1722 yet flourished until Meiji-era suppression.
Shungiku Uchida
Shungiku Uchida (内田春菊) is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, essayist, and actress born in 1959 in Nagasaki Prefecture, known for Minami-kun no Koibito and the autobiographical novel Fatherfucker.
Shutter speed
Shutter speed, or exposure time, is how long a camera's film or sensor is exposed to light. One of the exposure triangle's three controls with aperture and ISO. Fast speeds like 1/250 s freeze motion; slow speeds blur it; video uses 1/48 s at 24 fps.
Shuvinai Ashoona
Shuvinai Ashoona (ᓱᕕᓂ ᐊᓱᓇ, born 1961) is an Inuit graphic artist from Kinngait, Nunavut, whose drawings blend Arctic life, mythology, and fantasy, shown at the 2022 Venice Biennale.
Sibylle Bergemann
Sibylle Bergemann, born Sibylle Emma Luise Pohl, was a German photographer (1941–2010) known for East German fashion photography and her series Das Denkmal on the Marx-Engels Monument.
Sicán ceremonial masks
Sicán ceremonial masks are hammered sheet-gold funerary masks made by the Lambayeque culture of Peru's north coast, chiefly between 900 and 1100 CE, and sewn onto mummy bundles rather than worn.
Sickos
Sickos, or Sickos Haha Yes, is an internet meme of a bearded man in a black "Sickos" shirt laughing through a window, drawn by Ward Sutton as Onion cartoonist Stan Kelly, from the 2015 comic Painful Procedural, used for schadenfreude and sports fandom.