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Slave Labor Graphics
Slave Labor Graphics (SLG), founded by Dan Vado in San Jose in 1986, is an independent comics publisher known for Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Lenore, and Milk and Cheese, its Amaze Ink imprint, and its 2011 digital-first conversion.
Sleeping Hermaphroditus
Sleeping Hermaphroditus is a life-size ancient Roman marble sculpture of the sleeping Hermaphroditus, made in Rome in the 2nd century AD and in the Louvre since 1807.
Sleeping Muse
Sleeping Muse (La Muse endormie) is an ovoid bronze sculpture of a woman's sleeping head by Constantin Brancusi, first carved in marble in 1909–1910 and modeled on Baroness Renée Irana Frachon.
Sleepwalker (character)
Sleepwalker is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Bob Budiansky and Bret Blevins, debuting in Sleepwalker #1 (June 1991): an alien Mindscape guardian bonded to Rick Sheridan, starring in a 33-issue 1991–1994 series, distinct from other Marvel characters of the same name.
Slide show
Slide show (also slideshow): a sequential display of still images, from magic lantern and 35mm photographic slide projection to modern digital slideshow software with transitions, narration, and music.
Smiley
Smiley: a stylized smiling-face symbol, classically the yellow face drawn by Harvey Ball in 1963 for State Mutual Life Assurance; also the basis of emoticons and emoji, and a trademarked brand of The Smiley Company.
Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God
The Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, also called the Hodegetria of Smolensk, is a celebrated Russian icon of the Virgin holding the Christ Child.
Snowy Bamboo
Snowy Bamboo (雪竹图) is a large unsigned ink-on-silk hanging scroll depicting bamboo, rocks, and snow, attributed to the Five Dynasties Southern Tang painter Xu Xi and held by the Shanghai Museum.
So You Want to See the President!
So You Want to See the President! is Norman Rockwell's 1943 four-panel Saturday Evening Post suite of White House visitors waiting for FDR, commissioned by press secretary Stephen Early, hung in the West Wing 1978–2022, and bought for $7.25 million in 2025.
Sōami
Sōami (相阿弥), also called Shinso, was a Japanese painter and garden designer of the Muromachi period, the last of the three Ami advisors to the Ashikaga shoguns.
Social documentary photography
Social documentary photography records human life and living conditions to reveal social injustice and advocate reform, differing from photojournalism in running for years on social issues rather than breaking news.
Social realism
Social realism, an international realist art movement of the interwar period depicting working-class and poor conditions critically; distinct from Soviet Socialist Realism (Stalin, 1934); figures include Orozco, Rivera, Shahn, Gropper.
Socialist realism
Socialist realism (Социалистический реализм, Sotsrealizm, Sorela) was the USSR's mandatory official art method from 1934, defined by Gorky at the Writers' Congress, requiring optimistic, party-minded depiction of reality in revolutionary development, enforced through state-controlled unions and spread across Eastern Europe and Asia.
Socialist realism in Bulgaria
Socialist realism in Bulgaria was the officially mandated artistic method of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, imposed on painting, literature, and theater from the late 1940s until 1989.
Sofonisba Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532–1625), Cremona-born Renaissance portrait painter; trained under Bernardino Campi and Gatti, admired by Michelangelo and Vasari; lady-in-waiting and painting teacher to Elisabeth of Valois at Philip II's Spanish court; died Palermo 1625.
Soga Shōhaku's fantastic style
Soga Shōhaku's fantastic style is the idiosyncratic painting mode of Edo-period artist Soga Shōhaku (曾我蕭白, 1730–1781), who rendered traditional subjects with grotesque humor, brilliant colors, and supernatural realms.
Sogdian art
Sogdian art is the pre-Islamic art of Sogdiana in Central Asia, centered in the Zeravshan valley, known above all for murals, clay sculpture, and wood carving.
Sogdian murals of Panjikent
The Sogdian murals of Panjikent are 5th- to 8th-century wall paintings of the Sogdian city of Panjikent in present-day Tajikistan, depicting deities, feasts, and epics.
Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) was an American artist, founder of Conceptual art and Minimalism, creator of over 1,200 instruction-based wall drawings and open-cube 'structures', and author of 'Paragraphs on Conceptual Art'.
Sola Busca tarot
The Sola Busca tarot (Tarocchi Sola Busca) is the oldest complete 78-card tarot deck, engraved around 1491 in Ferrara and hand-colored in Venice, the first copperplate-engraved tarot with fully illustrated minor arcana, a source for Rider-Waite-Smith imagery, now at the Pinacoteca di Brera.
Somaskanda
Somaskanda is an iconographic form of the Hindu god Shiva seated with his consort Uma and their son Skanda, the prevailing family image in Pallava and Chola sculpture.
Something More
Something More is a 1989 series of nine staged photographs by the Australian artist Tracey Moffatt, her first major photographic series and the work that brought her international recognition.
Somnath Hore
Somnath Hore (1921–2006) was an Indian modernist artist from Chittagong, in present-day Bangladesh, whose paintings, prints, and bronzes centered on famine and war; he invented a paper-pulp printing technique for his Wounds series.
Song court flower-and-bird painting
Song court flower-and-bird painting (宋代院体花鸟画) is the meticulous, finely colored bird-and-flower painting made by the Song Hanlin Painting Academy, which reached its peak under Emperor Huizong.
Song dynasty wood sculpture
Song dynasty wood sculpture (960–1279) is the Buddhist statuary carved in wood in Song China, when wood replaced stone as the most common medium for Buddhist images.
Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay (born Sarah Stern, 1885–1979) was a Ukrainian-born French painter and designer who co-founded Orphism with Robert Delaunay and extended its bold colors into textiles, fashion, and books.
Sonia Gomes
Sonia Gomes is a Brazilian sculptor and assemblage artist, born in 1948 in Caetanópolis, who transforms found textiles and everyday objects into abstract, often suspended sculptures.
Sopheap Pich
Sopheap Pich, born in Battambang, Cambodia, in 1971, is a Cambodian sculptor known for large open-weave bamboo and rattan sculptures, shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Venice Biennale.
Sophia Sinot
Sophia Sinot is a Dutch (Huizen-born), London-based makeup artist, #218 on FashionDB, known for hyperfeminine, viral maximalist glam for Zara Larsson's Midnight Sun tour, Doja Cat's latex lips, the JT-lip look, SZA's 2026 Met Gala makeup, and clients including Doja Cat, Camila Cabello, and KATSEYE.
Sophia the Wisdom of God (Novgorod)
Sophia the Wisdom of God (София Премудрость Божия) is a fifteenth-century Russian allegorical icon type, associated with Novgorod, showing Divine Wisdom as a winged, royal, red-faced angelic figure.