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Sultanganj Buddha
The Sultanganj Buddha is an over-life-size cast copper standing Buddha made in India between 500 and 700, unearthed in 1861 or 1862 and shown in Birmingham since 1867.
Summer and Autumn Flowers
Summer and Autumn Flowers (夏秋草図屏風) is a pair of two-panel folding screens of summer and autumn grasses on a silver ground, painted by Sakai Hōitsu around 1821.
Sun and Immortal Birds Gold Ornament
The Sun and Immortal Birds Gold Ornament (太阳神鸟金饰) is a circular gold-foil ornament from the ancient Shu culture, unearthed in 2001 at the Jinsha Site in Chengdu, Sichuan.
Sun Guoting
Sun Guoting (Qianli) was a Tang dynasty calligrapher, active in the late 7th century, whose cursive-script Shu pu (Treatise on Calligraphy) is a foundational work of Chinese calligraphy theory.
Sunaina Kejriwal (सुनैना केजरीवाल)
Sunaina Kejriwal (सुनैना केजरीवाल), daughter of Rahul Bajaj and wife of Kedaara Capital founder Manish Kejriwal, directed Mumbai's Kamalnayan Bajaj Hall & Art Gallery from 2008 until her death from cancer on 5 October 2024, aged 53.
Sunflower Seeds
Sunflower Seeds (葵花籽, Kui Hua Zi) is Ai Weiwei's 2010 Tate Modern Turbine Hall installation of about 100 million handmade, hand-painted porcelain seeds, 150 tons, made by 1,600 Jingdezhen workers over two years.
Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)
Sunflowers (Van Gogh series): seven Arles vase paintings, 1888-1889, made for Paul Gauguin's visit; five in museums in London, Amsterdam, Munich, Philadelphia, Tokyo; chrome yellow degradation and conservation.
Sunil Janah
Sunil Janah (1918–2012) was an Indian photojournalist who documented the Bengal Famine of 1943 as photographer for the Communist Party of India, later covering industrialization under Nehru.
Sunny 16 rule
Sunny 16 rule (Sunny f/16 rule): a film-era photography rule of thumb for exposure without a light meter, setting f/16 at a shutter speed equal to 1/ISO in bright sun, with a condition ladder from f/22 snow to f/4 sunset.
Sunstone (comics)
Sunstone is an erotic romantic comedy comic by Croatian artist Stjepan Šejić, begun as a DeviantArt webcomic in 2011 and published in print by Image Comics/Top Cow from December 2014, following the BDSM romance of Ally and Lisa.
Super-Sons
Super-Sons is a DC Comics name for two pairings: the 1970s imaginary-story sons of Superman and Batman (Clark Kent, Jr. and Bruce Wayne, Jr. of Earth-216) by Bob Haney and Dick Dillin, and the 2017 Super Sons series teaming Jon Kent and Damian Wayne.
SuperMutant Magic Academy
SuperMutant Magic Academy is Jillian Tamaki's webcomic (started 2010 on Tumblr) and 2015 Drawn & Quarterly collection about mutant and witch teens at a prep school, centered on Marsha's crush on fox-girl Wendy; Ignatz 2011–2012 and Eisner 2016 winner, with an Adult Swim adaptation in development.
Suprematism
Suprematism, or suprematism (супрематизм), is the geometric abstract art movement founded by Kazimir Malevich in 1915, first shown at the 0.10 exhibition in Petrograd, claiming the supremacy of pure feeling over depiction.
Surimono
Surimono (摺物, literally "printed things") are privately published Japanese woodblock prints combining poetry and image, commissioned by Edo-period poetry circles and given as gifts; their lavish printing makes them among the finest woodblock prints.
Surrealism
Surrealism, avant-garde movement founded in Paris by André Breton's 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, explored the unconscious through automatism, dreams, and chance, drawing on Freud and Marx, and remains active worldwide.
Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia
The Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia is a collective of artists and writers founded in Prague in 1934, the movement's second most prestigious group after Paris, still active today.
Surrealist Manifesto
Manifeste du surréalisme (Surrealist Manifesto), André Breton's founding text published in Paris on 15 October 1924 as preface to Poisson soluble, defining surrealism as pure psychic automatism; basis of the Surrealist movement, with Second Manifesto 1929.
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis is an oil painting by John Trumbull depicting the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781, which ended the last major Revolutionary War campaign.
Surrounded Islands
Surrounded Islands was a temporary 1983 environmental installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, surrounding eleven artificial islands in Biscayne Bay, Miami, with floating pink fabric for two weeks.
Surya from Konark
Surya from Konark is a 13th-century stone sculpture of the Hindu sun god Surya, carved under the Eastern Ganga dynasty and now held in the National Museum, New Delhi.
Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas (born 1948, Baltimore) is an American documentary photographer known for her coverage of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and her long-term collaborative projects.
Susan Mikula
Susan Mikula (born 1958) is an American analog photographer using vintage Polaroid and pinhole cameras with expired film; partner of Rachel Maddow since 1999; series include Kilo, American Device, Island.
Susanne Wenger
Susanne Wenger, also known as Adunni Olorisha, was an Austrian-born artist and Yoruba priestess who spent over fifty years building shrines in the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Suske en Wiske
Suske en Wiske (Bob & Bobette, Spike & Suzy) is a Belgian comic series by Willy Vandersteen running since 1945, starring two children, Aunt Sidonia, Lambik, Jerom and Professor Barabas.
Sussanne Khan
Sussanne Khan, Indian interior and product designer, founder of The Charcoal Project (Mumbai, 2011), YOO creative director, AD100 honoree, ex-wife of Hrithik Roshan.
Susumu Shingu
Susumu Shingu (新宮 晋), born in 1937, is a Japanese sculptor based in Sanda, Hyogo, known for kinetic sculptures moved by wind and water, and for collaborations with architect Renzo Piano.
Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon (Marie-Clémentine Valadon, 1865–1938), French self-taught painter and former Montmartre artists' model; mother of Maurice Utrillo; known for frank male and female nudes such as The Blue Room (1923); Centre Pompidou retrospective 2025.
Suze Rotolo
Suze Rotolo (1943-2011) was an American artist and activist, Bob Dylan's girlfriend from 1961 to 1964 and the woman on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, later author of the memoir A Freewheelin' Time.
Suzuki Harunobu (鈴木春信)
Suzuki Harunobu (鈴木春信, died 1770) was an Edo ukiyo-e artist who led the creation of nishiki-e multicolor woodblock printing around 1765–66, producing over 1,000 brocade prints of beauties and mitate parodies.
Suzuki Kiitsu
Suzuki Kiitsu (鈴木其一, 1796–1858) was a Japanese painter of the late Edo period who led the final generation of the Rinpa school, known for works like Morning Glories.