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Agfacolor
Agfacolor was a color photographic and motion picture film developed by the German company Agfa, first marketed in 1936 and the first successful color negative material for cinematography.
Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin, full name Agnes Bernice Martin, was a Canadian-born American abstract painter whose hand-drawn grid and striped canvases made her one of the most influential artists of her era.
Agnolo Bronzino
Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572) was a Florentine Mannerist painter and poet, court painter to Duke Cosimo I de' Medici and the leading portraitist of mid-16th-century Florence.
Agus Suwage
Agus Suwage (born 1959, Purworejo, Central Java) is an Indonesian contemporary artist known for self-portraits in painting, sculpture, and installation commenting on Indonesian society and politics.
Agustín Víctor Casasola
Agustín Víctor Casasola (1874–1938) was a Mexican photographer and reporter, unofficial photographer of the Porfirio Díaz government, who chronicled the Mexican Revolution and founded one of Mexico's first photographic news agencies.
Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn, born Laura Michelle Hollins in 1983, is an English model and actress, British Fashion Awards Model of the Year 2007, face of Burberry and Shiseido, later lead actress in Pusher, Electricity, and Sunset Song.
Ahmad Sadali
Ahmad Sadali (1924–1987) was an Indonesian painter and art educator from Garut, West Java, known as the father of abstract art in Indonesia and a leading figure of the Bandung School.
Ahmed Shibrain
Ahmed Shibrain (أحمد شبرين, 1931 – March 2017) was a Sudanese modernist painter and educator who co-founded the Khartoum School in 1960, fusing Arabic calligraphy with abstract art.
Ahmet Karahisari
Ahmet Karahisari, full name Ahmed Şemseddin Karahisârî, was an Ottoman calligrapher (c. 1469 to 1556) who revived the classical style of Yaqut al-Musta'simi, working mainly for Sultan Süleyman I.
Ahu Tongariki
Ahu Tongariki is the largest ahu, or ceremonial platform, on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), with fifteen moai on its 96-meter southeastern-coast altar near the Rano Raraku quarry.
Ai Weiwei (艾未未)
Ai Weiwei (艾未未), born 1957 in Beijing, son of poet Ai Qing, is a Chinese artist, architect, and activist known for Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, Sunflower Seeds, the Bird's Nest collaboration, his 2011 detention, and exile in Europe since 2015.
Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh, born 1974 in Addis Ababa, is an Ethiopian photographer and curator known for staged, symbolically charged images and for founding the Addis Foto Fest.
Aidan Zamiri
Aidan Zamiri (born 1995) is a Glasgow-born Scottish photographer and director known for Charli xcx's '360' and 'Guess' videos, fashion campaigns, and his A24 feature debut The Moment (2026).
Aimé-Jules Dalou
Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838–1902) was a French naturalist sculptor, best known for the Triomphe de la République on the Place de la Nation in Paris and his peasant subjects.
Aina Onabolu
Aina Onabolu (1882–1963) was a Nigerian portrait painter and art educator, regarded as the father of modern Nigerian art, who brought art teaching into colonial Nigerian schools in the 1920s.
Aino Aalto
Aino Aalto, born Aino Maria Marsio (1894–1949), was a Finnish architect and designer who worked beside her husband Alvar Aalto, co-founded Artek in 1935, and designed the Bölgeblick glassware Iittala still produces.
Airlangga as Vishnu
Airlangga as Vishnu is the traditional identification of an East Javanese statue of Vishnu riding Garuda as the posthumous image of King Airlangga, who died in 1049.
Ajanta Cave 1 paintings
The Ajanta Cave 1 paintings are fifth-century CE Buddhist murals in a Vakataka monastery cave at Ajanta, Maharashtra, best known for the bodhisattvas Padmapani and Vajrapani.
Ajax and Cassandra
Ajax and Cassandra: mythological episode from the Sack of Troy in which Ajax the Lesser drags Cassandra from Athena's Palladium; depicted in Attic vases, the Borghese relief, a Raphael drawing, and Solomon's 1886 Ballarat painting.
Akademie der Künste
The Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) is a membership society of artists in Berlin, founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg and one of Europe's oldest cultural institutions.
Akari (あかり) (lamp)
Akari (あかり), meaning 'light' in Japanese, are paper-shaded light sculptures designed by Isamu Noguchi from 1951 in Gifu, Japan, distinguishing themselves from ordinary chochin lanterns by electric bulbs, metal armatures, and over 100 sculptural models.
Akbar Padamsee
Akbar Padamsee (1928–2020) was an Indian modernist painter, sculptor, and filmmaker in Bombay, known for his monochrome Grey Series, abstract metascapes, and Mirror Image paintings, awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010.
Akiane
Akiane Kramarik, also known simply as Akiane, is an American painter and poet born 1994 in Illinois, famous for painting Prince of Peace, a Jesus portrait, at age eight; the stolen painting sold for $850,000 in 2019.
Akihiko Yoshida (吉田明彦)
Akihiko Yoshida (吉田明彦) is a Japanese game character designer and art director: Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre at Quest (from 1989), Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, FFXII, Bravely Default, NieR: Automata, later CyDesignation director, known for a nose-less, detailed line style.
Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明)
Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明), Japanese manga artist and character designer; creator of Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball (42 volumes, 260+ million copies) and Dragon Quest character designer from 1986; died March 1, 2024, aged 68, of acute subdural hematoma; final work Dragon Ball DAIMA (2024); Eisner Hall of Fame inductee.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Akseli Gallen-Kallela, born Axel Waldemar Gallén, was a Finnish painter who gave the Finnish epic Kalevala its visual form, with works like The Defence of the Sampo.
Akua'ba
Akua'ba, plural akua'mma, is a carved wooden fertility figure of the Akan peoples of Ghana, meaning "Akua's child," carried by women seeking pregnancy or a safe delivery.
Akwanshi
Akwanshi, also spelled akwansisi, are carved stone monoliths of the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon, attributed to the Bakor peoples and possibly dating back to around 200 CE.
Al Capp
Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin, 1909–1979), American cartoonist, created the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner (1934–1977), set in Dogpatch; coined Sadie Hawkins Day and the Shmoo, reached 900-plus newspapers, and later faced scandal and political controversy.
Alamo (sculpture)
Alamo, the Astor Place Cube, is Tony Rosenthal's 1967 rotating black Cor-Ten steel cube at Astor Place, Manhattan; the first permanent contemporary outdoor sculpture in New York City, restored in 2005, 2016, and 2023.