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Umehara Ryūzaburō
Umehara Ryūzaburō (梅原龍三郎, 1888–1986) was a Japanese yōga, or Western-style, painter who studied under Renoir in France and led modern Japanese oil painting through the Taishō and Shōwa periods.
Umělecká beseda
Umělecká beseda ("Artistic Society") is a Czech artists' association founded in Prague in 1863 by figures including Bedřich Smetana, uniting writers, musicians, and visual artists.
Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (ਉਮਰਾਓ ਸਿੰਘ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿੱਲ)
Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (ਉਮਰਾਓ ਸਿੰਘ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿੱਲ, 1870–1954), Punjabi aristocrat, Sanskrit and Persian scholar, and pioneering Indian photographer, father of painter Amrita Sher-Gil; known for self-portraits, autochromes, and the family archive used by Vivan Sundaram.
Uncommon Places
Uncommon Places is a series of large-format color photographs of motels, parking lots, and streets by Stephen Shore, made on North American road trips and collected in a 1982 book.
Under One Person (一人之下)
Under One Person (一人之下), also known as Hitori no Shita, is a Chinese webcomic by Mi Er, serialized since 2015 and adapted into animated series.
Underwater photography
Underwater photography is the practice of taking photographs beneath the water's surface, pioneered by William Thompson in 1856 and advanced by Louis Boutan's first diving photographs in 1893.
Unfinished Painting
Unfinished painting: artworks left incomplete by death, abandonment, or deliberate non finito choice, from Van Eyck's Saint Barbara to Duchamp; Pliny praised them for revealing the artist's visible thoughts.
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio) is a 1913 plaster sculpture by the Italian Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni, showing an armless striding figure fused with the air it displaces.
Unisphere
The Unisphere is a 140-foot stainless steel globe by Gilmore D. Clarke, built and donated by U.S. Steel for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; a 1995 NYC landmark with three satellite rings and 96 fountains.
Unkoku Tōgan
Unkoku Tōgan (雲谷等顔, 1547–1618) was a Japanese painter who founded the Unkoku school of ink painting and served the Mōri clan, claiming direct succession to Sesshū Tōyō.
Unno Shōmin
Unno Shōmin (海野勝珉, 1844–1915) was a Japanese metalwork artist of the Mito school, a professor at the Tokyo Fine Arts School and an Imperial Household Artist.
Unsplash
Unsplash: free stock-photo platform founded 2013 as a Tumblr blog, acquired by Getty Images in 2021. Unsplash License permits commercial use without attribution; paid Unsplash+ tier launched 2022.
Ur-Leica
The Ur-Leica is the prototype camera Oskar Barnack built at Leitz in Wetzlar in 1913 and 1914, the first camera to use 35 mm film in landscape format.
Urania's Mirror
Urania's Mirror; or, a View of the Heavens: boxed set of 32 pierced, hand-colored constellation cards published by Samuel Leigh, London, November 1824, engraved by Sidney Hall, designed by Rev. Richard Rouse Bloxam, based on Jamieson's Celestial Atlas.
Uroš Predić
Uroš Predić (Урош Предић; 1857–1953) was a Serbian academic realist painter, trained in Vienna, who made over 1700 works and is considered one of the last great Serbian icon painters.
USS Midway Museum
USS Midway Museum, a naval museum aboard the retired carrier USS Midway (CV-41) at Navy Pier, San Diego, opened June 7, 2004; longest-serving 20th-century US carrier, 47 years of service, 20+ million visitors, 30+ aircraft.
Ustad Mansur
Ustad Mansur was a Mughal court painter under Akbar and Jahangir, active from about 1589 to 1626, known for his natural history studies of India's birds and flowers.
Ustyug Annunciation
The Ustyug Annunciation (Устюжское Благовещение) is a large Russian icon of the Annunciation painted in Novgorod in the first third of the 12th century, now in the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Uta Uta Tjangala
Uta Uta Tjangala (c. 1926–1990) was a Pintupi artist from Australia's Western Desert, a founding figure of the Papunya Tula painting movement begun in 1971.
Utagawa school
The Utagawa school (歌川派, Utagawa-ha) was the largest school of ukiyo-e, the Japanese woodblock-print tradition, founded in the late 18th century by Utagawa Toyoharu and led by Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, and Hiroshige.
Utagawa Toyoharu
Utagawa Toyoharu (歌川豊春, 1735–1814) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period who founded the Utagawa school and was known for uki-e perspective prints of Edo that influenced Hiroshige and Hokusai.
Utagawa Toyokuni I
Utagawa Toyokuni I (歌川豊国) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, best known for his kabuki actor prints and portraits of beautiful women.
Utamaro (喜多川歌麿)
Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿, c. 1753–1806), Edo ukiyo-e master of bijinga; pupil of Toriyama Sekien, published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō; developed ōkubi-e bust portraits around 1793; punished in 1804 under the Kansei reforms.
Utopian scholastic
Utopian scholastic, also called Kid Frasurbane, is a design aesthetic of late-1980s to early-2000s edutainment media: DK Eyewitness books, Microsoft Encarta, documentaries, and museums, defined by photo cut-outs on white, serif type, and pre-9/11 optimism; coined in 2017 by CARI-affiliated archivists.
Utrecht Caravaggisti
The Utrecht Caravaggisti were early seventeenth-century Dutch painters, mostly from Utrecht, who absorbed Caravaggio's realistic, dramatically lit style in Rome and influenced Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Vermeer.
Uyghur art of Turfan
Uyghur art of Turfan is the Buddhist, Manichaean, and Christian painting, manuscript illumination, and sculpture of the Turfan oasis, chiefly from the Uyghur settlement there in 843 until Islamicization.
V. S. Gaitonde
V. S. Gaitonde (Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde, 1924–2001) was an Indian modernist painter who pioneered non-objective art and was a member of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group.
Vagina and vulva in art
Vagina and vulva in art covers depictions of female genitalia from prehistoric pubic-triangle carvings through Courbet's L'Origine du monde, 1970s cunt art and Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, to The Vulva Gallery, censorship cases, and anatomical imagery.
Valentin Serov (Валентин Александрович Серов)
Valentin Serov, also known as Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov, was a Russian painter and stage designer who became a leading portraitist of Russia's Silver Age. He taught modernists like Saryan.
Valiant Comics
Valiant Comics, also Valiant Entertainment, is an American superhero comic publisher founded in 1989 by Jim Shooter and Steven Massarsky; home of X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, and Harbinger, sold to Acclaim, relaunched 2012, now DMG-owned with Alien Books publishing.