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Still life
Still life (nature morte, Dutch stilleven) is the art genre depicting arranged inanimate objects such as fruit, flowers, and vessels; it flourished in the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age with vanitas symbolism and remains active among contemporary painters.
Stock photography
Stock photography: licensing pre-made images to advertising, publishing and design customers. Models include royalty-free, rights-managed, and editorial-only; major agencies include Getty Images (founded 1995), Shutterstock and Adobe Stock, now reshaped by generative AI competition.
Stone carving in Goryeo
Stone carving in Goryeo (고려) is the Korean stone sculpture and architecture produced between 918 and 1392, chiefly Buddhist pagodas, stupas, lanterns, and steles in granite.
Stone Chariot, Hampi
The Stone Chariot of Hampi is a granite Garuda shrine in the Vijaya Vittala Temple at Hampi, Karnataka, built in the 16th century under King Krishnadevaraya.
Stone Gate Inscription
The Stone Gate Inscription (石门铭) is a large cliff-face carving cut in 509 CE on the Shimen tunnel near Hanzhong, Shaanxi, and a celebrated masterpiece of Wei-style regular script.
Stone of Tizoc
The Tizoc Stone (Piedra de Tízoc) is a carved cylindrical Aztec monolith from Tenochtitlan, decorated with conquest scenes commemorating the reign of the ruler Tízoc, from 1481 to 1486.
Stone Reliefs of the Wu Liang Shrine
The Stone Reliefs of the Wu Liang Shrine (武梁祠画像石) are carved Eastern Han stone pictures from an ancestral shrine built before Wu Liang's tomb in Jiaxiang County, Shandong.
Stone Reliefs of the Xiaotang Mountain Shrine
The Stone Reliefs of the Xiaotang Mountain Shrine are Han dynasty incised stone carvings inside a first-century CE funerary shrine in Jinan, Shandong, itself the earliest surviving above-ground building in China.
StoneToss
StoneToss is a pseudonymous four-panel webcomic launched July 18, 2017 at stonetoss.com, presenting itself as comedy about current events and internet culture while critics, researchers, and the Counter Extremism Project describe it as promoting alt-right, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, and white nationalist ideas; the artist was identified as Hans Kristian Graebener in 2024.
Storm Thorgerson
Storm Thorgerson (1944–2013), English graphic designer and film-maker, co-founder of Hipgnosis with Aubrey Powell; designed Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon prism cover and later StormStudios.
Storyboard
Storyboard: a sequence of illustrated panels planning a film's shots before production, showing framing, composition, and camera movement. Developed at Walt Disney Productions in the early 1930s (Webb Smith); distinct from the shot list (text) and animatic (timed).
Storyteller figure
A storyteller figure is a Pueblo pottery figurine of a seated adult with open mouth and closed eyes, surrounded by attached children, invented in 1964 by Cochiti potter Helen Cordero.
Straight photography
Straight photography is a style of photography producing sharp, unmanipulated images from a single negative, most prominent in the United States from 1920 to 1940 through Group f/64.
Street art
Street art, also known as Post-Graffiti, is visual art created in public spaces outside galleries. It developed from the graffiti movement, which began in Philadelphia in 1967.
Street photography
Street photography is a photographic genre in which photographers capture candid, unposed images of ordinary life in public spaces, distinguished from documentary photography and photojournalism by its expressive, spontaneous approach.
Studio
Studio: the workspace of artists, designers, and architects, from the medieval workshop and master's atelier through the academies to studio-laboratories, crit-based pedagogy, and today's subsidized studio spaces.
Studio glass
Studio glass is glass art made by artists outside the factory system, a movement that began with two 1962 workshops at the Toledo Museum of Art.
Stupa of the Fifth Dalai Lama
The stupa of the Fifth Dalai Lama is the gilded reliquary stupa in Lhasa's Potala Palace holding the remains of Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso, who died in 1682.
Suaire de Saint-Josse
The Suaire de Saint-Josse (Shroud of Saint Josse) is a fragmentary 10th-century silk samit bearing a Kufic Arabic dedication, found in 1920 and now in the Louvre.
Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta is an Indian contemporary artist, born 1964 in Bihar, whose monumental sculptures from stainless-steel utensils address migration, class, and social transformation in India.
Succès de scandale
Succès de scandale, a French loan phrase meaning "success of scandal," denotes success of a work from notoriety rather than merit; examples include Sargent's Madame X, Portnoy's Complaint, and Anti-Oedipus.
Sudarshan Shetty
Sudarshan Shetty, born 1961 in Mangalore, is a contemporary Indian artist based in Mumbai known for large-scale, often mechanically animated sculptural installations built from everyday objects and reclaimed wood.
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake (Ōhashi Atake no Yūdachi) is an 1857 Hiroshige woodblock print showing pedestrians crossing a bridge over the Sumida River in a downpour.
Sue Kent
Sue Kent is a British garden designer and BBC Two Gardeners' World and Garden Rescue presenter, an RHS disability ambassador who gardens with her feet due to Thalidomide, winning Hampton Court 2022 Silver Gilt for #knollingwithdaisies.
Sue ware
Sue ware (須恵器, sueki) is a hard, gray, unglazed high-fired pottery produced in Japan from the early 5th century to the Heian period, fired in anagama kilns above 1000 °C.
Sue Williamson
Sue Williamson is a South African artist, born in England in 1941, whose prints, photographs, and installations document apartheid and its aftermath through individual participants' words and faces.
SuicideGirls
SuicideGirls, aka SuicideGirls.com, is an alternative softcore pin-up website and community founded in 2001 in Portland by Missy Suicide (Selena Mooney) and Sean Suhl, featuring tattooed, pierced models, member journals, a $500 Set of the Day pay system, and Hopeful-to-SuicideGirl selection.
Sukhothai style
The Sukhothai style is the classic Thai Buddhist sculptural style of the Sukhothai kingdom (1238–1438), best known for the walking Buddha, a free-standing figure shown mid-stride.
Suleiman's helmet
Suleiman's helmet was a gold, jeweled ceremonial helmet-crown made in Venice in the early 1530s for Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, with four crowns symbolizing universal sovereignty.
Süleymanname of Matrakçı Nasuh
The Süleymanname of Matrakçı Nasuh, also titled Süleymân-nâme, is a 16th-century illustrated Ottoman history covering Süleyman the Magnificent's reign to 1537, distinguished by topographical miniatures without human figures.