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Adams Memorial
The Adams Memorial is a bronze funerary monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, with a setting by Stanford White, marking the graves of Henry and Clover Adams in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Adi Davierwalla
Adi Davierwalla, full name Ardeshir M. Davierwalla (1922–1975), was an Indian modernist sculptor who left pharmaceutical chemistry to create abstract, machine-inspired forms from welded metal and industrial scrap.
Adiyogi Shiva bust
The Adiyogi Shiva bust is a 112-foot steel sculpture of Shiva as the first yogi at the Isha Yoga Center near Coimbatore, India, the world's largest bust.
Admonitions Scroll
The Admonitions Scroll (女史箴圖) is a Chinese silk handscroll in the British Museum, traditionally attributed to Gu Kaizhi, illustrating Zhang Hua's poem of courtly conduct.
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom: family of photo cataloging and non-destructive RAW editing apps, in desktop-centric Lightroom Classic and cloud-based Lightroom (formerly Lightroom CC), first released February 19, 2007, with AI culling, masking, and generative editing features.
Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker, a founding member of the New York School best known for his Pictograph and Burst paintings.
Adolph Menzel
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905) was a German painter and printmaker, regarded as the leading German artist of the second half of the 19th century and known for his Frederick the Great scenes.
Adriaen de Vries
Adriaen de Vries, also Adrian de Fries, was a Netherlandish Mannerist sculptor and bronze caster, court sculptor to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague, who died in 1626.
Adriaen van Ostade
Adriaen van Ostade (1610–1685) was a Dutch painter and etcher of Haarlem who specialized in scenes of peasant life, producing more than eight hundred paintings.
Adrian Veidt
Adrian Veidt, alias Ozymandias, is the Watchmen character by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: a billionaire ex-vigilante based on Charlton's Thunderbolt who fakes an alien attack on New York, killing millions to force world peace.
Adriana Farmiga
Adriana Farmiga (born 1974) is a Ukrainian-American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and Dean of the Cooper Union School of Art, known for conceptual still lifes, pool-themed works, and the Starlite Motel residency.
Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel born 1981 in Salvador, Bahia, longest-running Victoria's Secret Angel (2000–2018), Maybelline face, returned 2024 and closed the 2026 VS show at 45.
Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur
Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur (1880–1958) was a Belgian painter who settled in Bali in 1932, known for impressionist paintings of Balinese women, especially his wife, the dancer Ni Pollok.
Adventure Comics
Adventure Comics, begun as New Comics in the late 1930s, is a long-running DC anthology series and home to Superboy, Supergirl, and the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter from Dordrecht, famed for river and pastoral scenes in warm, golden evening light; most of his best work is in England.
Afewerk Tekle
Afewerk Tekle (አፈወርቅ ተክሌ, 1932–2012) was an Ethiopian painter, widely called Ethiopia's leading modern artist, best known for the stained glass of Africa Hall, Addis Ababa.
Affandi
Affandi (born Affandi Koesoema, circa 1907–1990) was a self-taught Indonesian Expressionist painter known for squeezing paint directly from the tube onto canvas with his fingers.
Afo-a-Kom
The Afo-a-Kom, also written Afo-A-Kom, is a sacred carved throne statue of the Kom people of Cameroon, stolen in 1966 and returned from New York in 1973.
African art
African art: visual art of the African continent, centered on sub-Saharan traditions spanning sculpture, textiles, script, and performance, its colonial-era dispersal (Benin bronzes 1897), restitution, and the modern and contemporary African art market.
African influence on Cubism
African influence on Cubism was the encounter, beginning around 1905 in Paris, between the European avant-garde and African sculpture, contributing to a break from Western pictorial convention.
African modernism
African modernism is the modernist art, architecture, and visual culture made by African artists, most prominently from the late 1950s through the 1970s, as newly independent states sought cultural forms equal to their political independence.
African Renaissance Monument
The African Renaissance Monument (Monument de la Renaissance Africaine) is a 49-metre bronze statue on the Collines des Mamelles in Dakar, Senegal, unveiled 3 April 2010 by President Abdoulaye Wade, designed by Pierre Goudiaby, built by North Korea, and marked by cost and religious controversy.
African-American assemblage
African-American assemblage is a tradition of three-dimensional art made from found and discarded objects that developed among African-American artists, above all in Los Angeles, from the 1960s onward.
African-American Flag
African-American Flag is a 1990 artwork by American artist David Hammons that recolors the American flag's stars and stripes in the Pan-African red, black, and green.
African-American muralism
African-American muralism is the tradition of large-scale wall painting by and for Black communities in the United States, spanning the New Deal, the 1967 Wall of Respect, and 2020's Black Lives Matter murals.
AfriCOBRA
AfriCOBRA is an African American artist collective founded in 1968 on Chicago's South Side, known for bright "Kool-Aid" colors and positive images of Black life.
Afro-Brazilian religious art
Afro-Brazilian religious art spans sacred objects made for Candomblé and Umbanda rituals and works by artists like Rubem Valentim who translate the religions' symbols into fine art.
Afro-Cuban art
Afro-Cuban art is the visual, performative, and religious art of Cuba rooted in African-descended cultures, ranging from Santería ritual objects and batá drumming to modernist painting.
Afro-Surrealism
Afro-Surrealism (Afrosurrealism) is an artistic and literary movement applying Surrealist techniques to the African diaspora experience, named by Amiri Baraka in 1974 and defined by D. Scot Miller's 2009 Afrosurreal Manifesto, distinct from Afrofuturism's future focus.
Afterlife with Archie
Afterlife with Archie (2013–2016) is a 10-issue horror comic by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla in which Sabrina's necromancy resurrects Jughead's dog Hot Dog and triggers a zombie apocalypse in Riverdale; it launched the Archie Horror imprint and is being adapted for Disney+.