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Baule figure sculpture
Baule figure sculpture is the carved wooden human figure tradition of the Baule people of central Côte d'Ivoire, made since the 1700s to house spirit spouses and nature spirits for diviners.
Bay Area Figurative Movement
The Bay Area Figurative Movement, also called the Bay Area Figurative School, was a 1950s and 1960s art movement in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bay Tree Egg
The Bay Tree Egg is a 1911 Imperial Fabergé egg from Nicholas II to his mother, hiding a mechanical singing bird; it is now in Saint Petersburg.
Baya Mahieddine
Baya Mahieddine, born Fatma Haddad and known simply as Baya, was a self-taught Algerian painter whose gouaches of women, birds, and fish made her a sensation in Paris.
Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
The Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, or Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, is a Munich academy of the arts founded by the Free State of Bavaria in 1948.
Bayon style
The Bayon style is the final major phase of classical Khmer art, produced in the late 12th and early 13th centuries under King Jayavarman VII at Angkor Thom.
Bear's Heart's Fort Marion Drawings
Bear's Heart's Fort Marion Drawings are ledger drawings made by Cheyenne artist Bear's Heart, a prisoner of war at Fort Marion in Florida, between 1875 and 1878.
Beauford Delaney
Beauford Delaney (1901–1979) was an American modernist painter from Knoxville, Tennessee, known for pastel portraits of prominent African Americans, Greenwich Village street scenes, and luminous yellow abstractions.
Beautiful Style
The Beautiful Style (German Schöner Stil, Soft Style) is a Late Gothic art phase of about 1380–1430, centered on Prague, known especially for the elegant Beautiful Madonnas.
Beauty Revealed
Beauty Revealed is an 1828 watercolor-on-ivory miniature by Sarah Goodridge depicting only her bared breasts, made as a gift for statesman Daniel Webster; held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object 2006.235.74.
Becher industrial typologies
Becher industrial typologies are grids of precisely composed black-and-white photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher, made from 1959 for five decades, comparing water towers, blast furnaces, and other industrial structures.
Bedford Hours
The Bedford Hours is a French book of hours illuminated in Paris around 1410 to 1430, owned by John, Duke of Bedford, who gave it to Henry VI in 1430.
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu (1911–1975) was a Turkish painter, muralist, mosaicist, and poet who brought Anatolian folk motifs and kilim patterns into modern Turkish painting and large public mosaics.
Bedroom in Arles
Bedroom in Arles (La Chambre de Van Gogh à Arles): three oil versions by Vincent van Gogh of his Yellow House bedroom, 1888–1889, at the Van Gogh Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and Musée d'Orsay.
Beer Street and Gin Lane
Beer Street and Gin Lane are paired 1751 etchings by William Hogarth contrasting healthy English beer drinkers with gin-ruined Londoners, published to support the Gin Act of 1751 against the gin craze.
Beethoven with the Manuscript of the Missa Solemnis
Joseph Karl Stieler's 1820 oil portrait (72.0 x 58.5 cm) of Ludwig van Beethoven composing the Credo of his Missa solemnis, commissioned by the Brentanos; the best-known Beethoven image, held at Beethoven-Haus Bonn.
Begram hoard
The Begram hoard is a collection of Roman, Chinese, and Indian luxury objects found sealed in two rooms at Begram, ancient Kapisa, Afghanistan, excavated in 1937 and 1939.
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (French: Derrière la gare Saint-Lazare) is a 1932 photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson showing a man leaping across a flooded yard behind the Paris station.
Behind the Red Moon
Behind the Red Moon is a monumental sculptural installation by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, shown from 2023 to 2024.
Beixue
Beixue (碑学, "stele learning") is a Chinese calligraphy school that takes ancient stele inscriptions as its models, opposed to tiexue, and rose to dominance in the Qing dynasty.
Belfie
Belfie (butt selfie) is slang for a self-taken photo of one's own buttocks, a blend of butt/bum and selfie. First Instagram example July 18, 2012; word debuted on Urban Dictionary in 2013, popularized by Jen Selter and Kim Kardashian.
Belgian surrealism
Belgian surrealism is the branch of the Surrealist movement that developed in Belgium from 1924, centered in Brussels on the poet Paul Nougé and the painter René Magritte.
Belkis Ayón
Belkis Ayón (Belkis Ayón Manso, 1967–1999) was a Cuban printmaker known for monumental collographs reinterpreting the Abakuá, a secret Afro-Cuban brotherhood, through its female figure Sikán.
Bella Hadid
Bella Hadid (Isabella Khair Hadid, بيلا حديد), American fashion model born 1996 in Washington D.C. of Palestinian and Dutch heritage; IMG-signed 2014, Models.com Model of the Year 2016, Orebella fragrance founder, Palestinian advocate, Lyme disease diagnosed 2013.
Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry is an early 15th-century illuminated book of hours made in Paris by the Limbourg brothers.
Bellosguardo Foundation
The Bellosguardo Foundation is a nonprofit that owns Bellosguardo, a 24-acre oceanfront estate in Santa Barbara built in 1937 by Anna Clark and bequeathed by her daughter Huguette Clark.
Belvedere Torso
The Belvedere Torso (Torso del Belvedere) is a fragmentary marble male torso in the Vatican Museums, signed by Apollonios and long admired as a model of the heroic male nude.
Ben Enwonwu
Ben Enwonwu was a Nigerian painter and sculptor who fused Igbo artistic traditions with European modernist techniques, becoming one of the most influential African artists of the 20th century.
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was a Lithuanian-born American painter, muralist, and photographer, a leading Social Realist who depicted workers and social injustice from the Great Depression onward.
Bencharong
Bencharong (เบญจรงค์, "five colors") is polychrome overglaze-enamel porcelain made in China to Thai specifications, mainly for the Siamese royal court and nobility from the Ayutthaya period through the 19th century.