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Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis (born 1968, Essex, England) is a British comics writer and novelist, creator of Transmetropolitan, The Authority, Planetary, and Red, and of Netflix's Castlevania; accused by 60+ women in 2020, he returned to Image Comics in 2026.
Warrior of Capestrano
The Warrior of Capestrano (Italian: Guerriero di Capestrano) is a limestone statue of an armed man carved in the sixth century BC in Abruzzo, Italy.
Warrior on Horseback
Warrior on Horseback (Воин на коњ), also called Equestrian Warrior, is a colossal bronze equestrian monument and fountain on Macedonia Square, Skopje, unveiled 8 September 2011 as the centerpiece of Skopje 2014; sculpted by Valentina Stevanovska and widely recognized as Alexander the Great despite its anonymous official name.
Washington Allston
Washington Allston (1779–1843) was an American painter and poet, born in South Carolina and trained in London, who led romanticism into American painting; his unfinished masterpiece Belshazzar's Feast is in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Washington Color School
The Washington Color School was a group of abstract painters in Washington, D.C., active from the mid-1950s through the 1970s, whose core six included Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Gene Davis.
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Washington Crossing the Delaware is an 1851 oil painting by Emanuel Leutze showing George Washington leading the Continental Army across the Delaware River in 1776.
Wassily Kandinsky (Василий Васильевич Кандинский)
Wassily Kandinsky (Василий Васильевич Кандинский), 1866–1944, Russian-born painter and theorist, a founder of abstract art; author of Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911) and Point and Line to Plane (1926), co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus teacher.
Waste Not
Waste Not (物尽其用) is a 2005 installation by Chinese artist Song Dong and his mother Zhao Xiangyuan, arranging over 10,000 household objects she saved around the frame of the family's demolished house.
Wat Phra Kaew murals
The Wat Phra Kaew murals (วัดพระศรีรัตนศาสดาราม) are painted scenes, chiefly 178 Ramakien panels, in the cloister of the Emerald Buddha temple at Bangkok's Grand Palace, begun under King Rama I in 1783.
Water Album
The Water Album (Shui tu 水圖), also called the Twelve Views of Water, is a set of twelve paintings of water alone by the Southern Song painter Ma Yuan.
Water Dreaming (Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula)
Water Dreaming refers to paintings of the Kalipinypa Water Dreaming by Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, a founding Papunya Tula artist in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Water Lilies (Monet series)
Water Lilies (Nymphéas) is Claude Monet's roughly 250–300-painting series of his Giverny pond, from the late 1890s to 1926, culminating in the panoramic panels donated to France in 1922 and shown at the Musée de l'Orangerie since 1927.
Water Village
Water Village (水村图) is a 1302 ink-on-paper landscape handscroll by the Yuan dynasty artist and calligrapher Zhao Mengfu, a founding statement of the Yuan literati landscape style.
Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara
Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara, known in Korean as 수월관음도 and Japanese as Suigetsu Kannon, is a Buddhist iconographic type showing Avalokiteshvara on rocks gazing at the moon reflected in water.
Watercolor painting
Watercolor painting (watercolour, aquarelle): transparent pigment washes bound in gum arabic on white paper, luminous via reflected light; bodycolour/gouache variants; British golden age, Reeves cakes 1780, Winsor & Newton tubes 1846.
Watson and the Shark
Watson and the Shark is an 1778 oil painting by John Singleton Copley depicting the rescue of fourteen-year-old Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana Harbor in 1749.
Watts Towers
Watts Towers, also called Nuestro Pueblo or the Towers of Simon Rodia, are 17 interconnected folk-art sculptures in Watts, Los Angeles, built alone by Italian immigrant Sabato Rodia from 1921 to 1954, tallest 99.5 feet, now a National Historic Landmark.
Waves at Matsushima
Waves at Matsushima (松島図屏風) is a pair of six-panel folding screens painted by Tawaraya Sōtatsu in the 17th century, now held by the Freer Gallery of Art.
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud (Morton Wayne Thiebaud, 1920-2021), American painter of thickly impastoed still lifes of cakes, pies, and gumball machines; exhibited with Pop artists in 1962 but rejected the Pop label; taught at UC Davis.
We Can Do It!
We Can Do It! is J. Howard Miller's 1942-43 Westinghouse workplace morale poster of a flexing woman in a polka-dot bandana, displayed two weeks in February 1943 and later mislabeled Rosie the Riveter.
We Two Boys Together Clinging
We Two Boys Together Clinging is a 1961 oil-on-board painting by David Hockney in the Arts Council Collection, London, showing two men kissing, titled from Walt Whitman's poem and alluding to Cliff Richard.
Webtoon
Webtoon (웹툰): a South Korean-origin digital comic format read as one full-color vertical scroll on phones, distinct from manhwa (origin) and manga (Japan); coined by Cheollian in 2000, industrialized by Naver Webtoon from 2005, now a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Wei stele
Wei stele (魏碑), also called Northern steles, is the stone-inscription calligraphy of China's Northern Wei dynasty and its successors, marking the transition from clerical to regular script.
Weirdcore
Weirdcore (also Oddcore, Strangecore, Creepycore) is an online aesthetic and art movement of edited, lo-fi, surrealist images evoking confusion, nostalgia, and unease, using red text, eyes, and liminal spaces.
Well of Moses
The Well of Moses (French: Puits de Moïse) is the surviving hexagonal pedestal of a calvary carved by Claus Sluter for the Chartreuse de Champmol in Dijon, France, between 1395 and 1405.
Wen Zhengming
Wen Zhengming (文徵明, 1470–1559) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher of Suzhou who led the Wu School and ranks among the Four Masters of Ming painting.
Wen-Ying Tsai
Wen-Ying Tsai (蔡文颖) was a Chinese-born American sculptor and pioneer of cybernetic sculpture, creating vibrating stainless-steel rod works under stroboscopic light that viewers could control through sound.
Wenceslaus Hollar
Wenceslaus Hollar, also Wenzel Hollar (Václav Hollar), was a Bohemian etcher and draughtsman (1607–1677) who worked mostly in England and made nearly 3,000 etchings, including views of London before and after the Great Fire of 1666.
Wendy Beckett
Wendy Beckett, Sister Wendy (1930–2018), British Carmelite nun and art historian; hermit at Quidenham, Norfolk; BBC art documentaries in the 1990s and about 25–40 books. Distinct from the contemporary Australian playwright of the same name.
Wendy Moore (television personality)
Wendy Moore is an Australian magazine editor and TV personality, editor of Home Beautiful, judge on House Rules (2013-2019), co-host of Foxtel's Selling Houses Australia, and former Foxtel executive. Distinct from the English historian Wendy Moore.