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El Tajín relief carving
El Tajín relief carving is the sculptural program of carved stone panels, friezes, and column drums at El Tajín, Veracruz, mostly narrating the Mesoamerican ballgame and its sacrificial rituals.
El Techo de la Ballena
El Techo de la Ballena was a Venezuelan artistic and literary collective in Caracas active from 1961 to 1969, combining visual art, poetry, film, and action art.
Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning, née Fried (1918-1989), American Abstract Expressionist painter, ARTnews critic, and educator; married Willem de Kooning; known for gestural portraits, including the 1963 John F. Kennedy portrait, and the Bacchus series.
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden (杏园雅集图) is a Ming dynasty handscroll attributed to court painter Xie Huan, recording a 1437 garden party of nine senior Ming officials in Beijing.
Elements of art
Elements of art: the visual building blocks (line, shape, form, space, color, value, texture) used in formal analysis and art education, paired with the principles of design; lists vary by institution.
Elephanta Trimurti
The Elephanta Trimurti, also called the Sadashiva or Maheshamurti, is a colossal three-headed bust of Shiva carved in basalt in the Elephanta Caves, Mumbai Harbour.
Eleusa
Eleusa, Greek for "merciful," is a Byzantine iconographic type of the Virgin and Child in tender embrace, known from the Vladimir Mother of God of about 1130.
Elgin Marbles
The Elgin Marbles, also called the Parthenon Marbles, are classical Greek sculptures removed from the Parthenon in Athens by Lord Elgin and held in the British Museum since 1816.
Elias Sime
Elias Sime (ኤልያስ ሲሜ, born 1968 in Addis Ababa) is an Ethiopian artist known for large-scale wall reliefs built from reclaimed electronic components, wires, and circuit boards.
Elie Nadelman
Elie Nadelman, born Eliasz Nadelman, was a Polish-American sculptor known for sleek, stylized classical figures. He moved to New York in 1914 and later opened a folk art museum in the Bronx.
Eliot Porter
Eliot Porter was an American photographer, 1901 to 1990, who pioneered color nature photography after leaving a Harvard biochemistry career, and whose 1962 book In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World set new standards.
Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993) was an English figurative sculptor and printmaker of men, birds, horses and religious subjects, a Geometry of Fear associate, creator of Goggle Heads, Risen Christ, Walking Madonna, over 400 sculptures.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), French portrait painter, official painter to Marie Antoinette from 1779 with about 30 portraits of the queen, Académie member 1783, twelve-year European exile after 1789, author of the Souvenirs (1835–1837).
Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora, was an American and Mexican sculptor and printmaker best known for depicting the Black American experience, often centered on women's lives.
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) was an American painter known for large shaped canvases that jut from the wall and depict everyday objects like coffee cups and shoes.
Elizabeth Peyton
Elizabeth Peyton, full name Elizabeth Joy Peyton, is an American contemporary painter born in 1965 in Danbury, Connecticut, known for intimate small-scale portraits of icons like Kurt Cobain and Napoleon.
Elizabeth Sackler
Elizabeth Sackler is an American public historian and philanthropist who serves as Board Chair of the Brooklyn Museum. She founded the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862), English Pre-Raphaelite painter, poet, and model, Ophelia sitter, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ruskin's £150-a-year protegee, only woman in the 1857 PRB exhibition.
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) was a French-born American documentary and advertising photographer, a Magnum Photos member for 70 years, known for humorous black-and-white images of dogs and celebrities.
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker known for hard-edged abstractions of pure, saturated color that influenced Minimalism, Color Field painting, and Pop Art.
Elmyr de Hory
Elmyr de Hory (Elemér Hoffmann, 1906-1976), Hungarian-born painter and one of history's most prolific art forgers, sold over 1,000 fake Picassos, Matisses, and Modiglianis before his 1967 exposure, Irving's Fake!, Welles's F for Fake, and his 1976 suicide in Ibiza.
Elsa Peretti
Elsa Peretti (1940-2021), Italian jewelry designer for Tiffany & Co. from 1974; creator of the Bone cuff, Bean, Open Heart, and Diamonds by the Yard; founder of the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, her universal heir.
Emaciated Horse
Emaciated Horse (駿骨図, Junqu tu) is an ink handscroll by Song loyalist Gong Kai (1222–1307), depicting a bony horse as an allegory of loyalty to the fallen Song dynasty.
Emakimono
Emakimono (絵巻) is a Japanese narrative handscroll format combining text and pictures. This form arrived in Japan around the sixth century and flourished during the Heian and Kamakura periods.
Emanuel Leutze
Emanuel Leutze, full name Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816–1868), was a German-born American history painter known for Washington Crossing the Delaware and a Capitol mural.
Emblem
Emblem: a words-and-picture symbolic mark, from Greek emblêma via Latin emblema. Covers the Renaissance emblem book (Alciato 1531, motto–pictura–subscriptio), state and heraldic emblems, and modern logo usage.
Emeka Ogboh
Emeka Ogboh (born 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria) is a Nigerian sound and installation artist based in Lagos and Berlin, known for Lagos Soundscapes built from field recordings.
Emerald Buddha
The Emerald Buddha (พระแก้วมรกต) is a green-stone Buddha image enshrined at Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, the royal temple in Bangkok's Grand Palace, and is among Thailand's most venerated Buddhist objects.
Emil Filla
Emil Filla was a Czech Cubist painter, sculptor, and art theorist, born in Chropyně in Moravia in 1882, a leading figure of Czech Cubism in Prague.
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde, born Hans Emil Hansen, was a German-Danish painter and printmaker among the leading German Expressionists, known for religious pictures, seascapes, and flower watercolors.