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Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) is a large 1950 drip painting by Jackson Pollock, made of poured enamel on canvas and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Autumn Wind and Fan
Autumn Wind and Fan (秋风纨扇图) is an ink hanging scroll of a lady holding a round fan, painted by Ming artist Tang Yin and held by the Shanghai Museum.
Avalokiteshvara of Chaiya
A Srivijaya-period bronze of the eight-armed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara found at Wat Phra Borommathat in Chaiya, southern Thailand, regarded among the finest works of Srivijaya art.
Avant-garde
Avant-garde (French, 'advance guard') names experimental, boundary-pushing art and artists, from Saint-Simon's 1825 usage through Courbet, Impressionism, Dada, Surrealism, and Constructivism, distinguished from modernism by Bürger and Greenberg in opposing ways.
Axel Salto
Axel Salto (1889–1961) was a Danish painter and ceramicist best known for organic stoneware in three styles he called fluted, budding, and sprouting, made with Royal Copenhagen.
Ayutthaya style
The Ayutthaya style (ศิลปะอยุธยา) is the royal art of the Ayutthaya kingdom in Thailand, founded in 1351 and falling in 1767, best known for crowned and jeweled Buddha images.
Azaria Mbatha
Azaria Mbatha (1941–2018) was a South African printmaker known for narrative linocuts on Biblical themes and as the first African graphic artist in MoMA's collection.
Azim Azimzade
Azim Azimzade (Əzim Əzimzadə; 1880–1943) was an Azerbaijani graphic artist and caricaturist, regarded as the founder of Azerbaijani caricature art and satirical graphics, best known for drawing for Molla Nasreddin.
Aztec stone sculpture
Aztec stone sculpture is the stone carving of the Aztec empire of central Mexico between the 14th and early 16th centuries, from personal objects to monuments.
Aztec turquoise mosaic
Aztec turquoise mosaic is a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican decorative technique, dated 1400-1521, in which turquoise tiles were glued onto carved wood to make masks, shields, sacrificial knives, and pectorals.
Azulejo
An azulejo is a glazed ceramic tile used as a decorative covering of walls, floors, and façades, identified with Portugal, where it has been applied for five centuries.
Azure (color)
Azure is the sky-blue color whose name came from Persian lajward (lapis lazuli) via Greek lazour and Old French azur, entering English in the early 14th century; it named the ultramarine pigment, later cobalt-blue smalt, and now a family of light blues.
B. C. Sanyal
B. C. Sanyal, born Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal, was an Indian painter, sculptor, and art educator who founded the Lahore School of Fine Arts and co-founded the Delhi Silpi Chakra.
B.C. (comic strip)
B.C. is a syndicated American newspaper comic strip created by Johnny Hart, debuting February 17, 1958. Cavemen with modern anachronisms; famous for the Zot anteater, religious controversy, the 1968 Reuben, and continuation by Hart's grandsons.
Babe Ruth Bows Out
"Babe Ruth Bows Out" (The Babe Bows Out), Nat Fein's June 13, 1948 rear-view photograph of a dying Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium's silver anniversary, won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize, the first sports photo so honored.
Baby Blues (comic strip)
Baby Blues is an American newspaper comic strip that follows Darryl and Wanda MacPherson raising their three children. It debuted in 1990 and won a Reuben Award in 1995.
Bacchus (Michelangelo)
Bacchus is a life-size marble statue of the Roman god of wine carved by Michelangelo in Rome in 1496 and 1497, now in the Bargello, Florence.
Bacchus and Ariadne
Bacchus and Ariadne is an oil painting by Titian, made between 1520 and 1523 for Alfonso I d'Este, showing Bacchus falling in love with the abandoned Ariadne.
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), the professional undergraduate degree in visual and performing arts, emphasizing intensive studio practice over the broader Bachelor of Arts; typically 120 credits, portfolio admission, senior exhibition, and the pathway to the MFA.
Bacon's cipher
Bacon's cipher, also called the Baconian cipher, is a steganographic method devised by Francis Bacon, hiding each letter as five A's and B's within two subtly different typefaces.
Bactrian art
Bactrian art is the art of ancient Bactria, between the Hindu Kush and the Oxus, which evolved from a Greek colonial style into a composite tradition under the Kushans.
Bactrian Gold
The Bactrian Gold is a hoard of roughly 20,000 gold objects excavated in 1978 from six nomadic burials at Tillya Tepe near Sheberghan, Afghanistan, dating to the first centuries BCE and CE.
Bada Shanren
Zhu Da, best known by his signature Bada Shanren (朱耷), was a Chinese painter and calligrapher of Ming imperial descent who became a Buddhist monk after the dynasty fell in 1644.
Badami Cave 3 paintings
The Badami Cave 3 paintings are fragmentary sixth-century murals on the cornice and ceiling of Cave 3 at Badami, Karnataka, the earliest Brahmanical wall paintings known in India.
Baekje Gilt-bronze Standing Buddha (Buyeo)
The Baekje gilt-bronze standing Buddha (Buyeo) is a small gilt-bronze Buddhist statue cast by the Baekje kingdom, whose capital lay at Buyeo, characterized by gentle faces and harmonious proportions.
Bagan mural painting
Bagan mural painting refers to the Buddhist wall paintings inside Bagan's temples in central Myanmar, created mostly between the 11th and 13th centuries during the city's time as a Buddhist imperial capital.
Baghdad school
The Baghdad school, also called the Arabic or Abbasid school, was a tradition of manuscript illustration that flourished in Abbasid Iraq in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
Bagyi Aung Soe
Bagyi Aung Soe (1923–1990) was a Burmese painter, illustrator, and teacher regarded as the pioneer of modern art in Myanmar, who studied at Tagore's Śāntiniketan in India in 1951.
Bahia Shehab
Bahia Shehab (born 1977) is an Egyptian artist, designer, and art historian known for A Thousand Times No and her street stencils in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Bahman Jalali
Bahman Jalali (بهمن جلالی, 1944–2010) was an Iranian photographer who documented the 1979 Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War and later made photomontages from Qajar-era photographs.