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Faras Cathedral paintings
The Faras Cathedral paintings are medieval Christian Nubian wall paintings from Faras, Sudan, rescued by Polish archaeologists in the 1960s and now split between Warsaw and Khartoum.
Faras Virgin and Child
The Faras Virgin and Child refers to medieval Nubian wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras in northern Sudan, found by Polish excavations in 1961–1964.
Farm Security Administration photography
Farm Security Administration photography is the documentary project, led by Roy E. Stryker from 1935 to 1944, that recorded Depression-era rural poverty for New Deal agencies, with photographers including Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.
Farnese Bull
The Farnese Bull (Toro Farnese) is a colossal Roman marble group carved around A.D. 200 for the Baths of Caracalla, now in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.
Farnese Hercules
The Farnese Hercules (Ercole Farnese) is a colossal Roman marble statue of a weary Hercules leaning on his club, discovered in Rome's Baths of Caracalla in 1546.
Fashion capital
Fashion capital: a city central to the fashion industry. The Big Four are New York, London, Milan, Paris; Paris leads via haute couture since Worth (1858); emerging capitals include Tokyo, Seoul, Copenhagen, Lagos.
Fashion design
Fashion design, also called fashion designing or apparel design, is the branch of industrial design that turns ideas for clothing and accessories into producible, wearable, marketable garments.
Fashion photography
Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing, accessories, and beauty ideals, closely tied to fashion magazines since Steichen's 1911 photographs of Paul Poiret dresses.
Fasting Siddhartha
Fasting Siddhartha, also called the Fasting Buddha, is a Gandharan sculpture type showing a skeletal, meditating Siddhartha, made between the 1st and 6th centuries CE.
Fauvism
Fauvism, or le fauvisme, was a short-lived French painting movement about 1904–1908 led by Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck, known for wild non-naturalistic color; the name came from Vauxcelles's 1905 Salon d'Automne review.
Fawcett Comics
Fawcett Comics, the 1939–1953 comic book division of Fawcett Publications, created Captain Marvel (Shazam) and fought the twelve-year National Comics Superman copyright lawsuit before paying $400,000 and exiting comics in 1953.
Fearless Girl
Fearless Girl is Kristen Visbal's 2017 bronze statue, commissioned by State Street Global Advisors to promote its SHE gender-diversity fund, installed facing Charging Bull and moved in 2018 to Broad Street opposite the NYSE.
Federal Art Project
The Federal Art Project (FAP) was a work-relief program of the Works Progress Administration that employed unemployed American artists from 1935 to 1943, producing murals, paintings, and sculptures nationwide.
Federico Cantú
Federico Cantú (Federico Heraclio Cantú Garza, 1907 or 1908–1989) was a Mexican painter, muralist, and sculptor known for the emblematic sculpture of the Mexican Social Security Institute.
Fedoskino miniature
Fedoskino miniature is a Russian craft of lacquer miniature painting in oil on papier-mâché, begun near Moscow in 1795, the oldest of the four Russian lacquer centers.
Fei Danxu
Fei Danxu (费丹旭, 1801 or 1802–1850) was a late Qing Chinese painter celebrated for slender, elegant women set in landscapes, paired with Gai Qi as the Gai-Fei school.
Felice Beato
Felice Beato, also known as Felix Beato, was an Italian-born British photographer active from the 1850s to the early 1900s and a pioneer of war photography.
Félix González-Torres
Félix González-Torres (1957–1996) was a Cuban-born American visual artist whose participatory works of candy spills, paper stacks, and paired clocks address love, loss, and the AIDS crisis, inviting viewers to take pieces away.
Felix Moscheles
Felix Moscheles, full name Felix Stone Moscheles (1833–1917), was an English painter and peace activist who chaired the International Arbitration and Peace Association from 1897.
Félix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) was a Swiss-born painter and printmaker who worked in Paris, best known for bold black-and-white woodcuts of the 1890s and tense paintings of interiors, nudes, and landscapes.
Female Furies
Female Furies: DC Comics team of elite women warriors of Apokolips, created by Jack Kirby, first appearing in Mister Miracle #6 (1971); trained by Granny Goodness, serving Darkseid; members include Big Barda, Lashina, Bernadeth; subject of a 2019 six-issue miniseries by Cecil Castellucci and Adriana Melo.
Feminist art movement
The feminist art movement, begun in the late 1960s in the United States and England, made women's personal experiences the subject of art and challenged the canon of Western art history.
Feng Zikai
Feng Zikai (丰子恺, 1898–1975) was a Chinese painter and essayist, pioneer of modern Chinese manhua, known for simple ink cartoons of children and daily life.
Ferdinand Cheval
Ferdinand Cheval, le Facteur Cheval (1836–1924), French rural postman at Hauterives, Drôme, who built the Palais Idéal alone over 33 years (1879–1912) from stones collected on his 32 km mail rounds; classified Monument Historique in 1969.
Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) was a Swiss Symbolist painter known for his compositional doctrine of parallelism and monumental allegorical works, admired by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.
Ferdinando Scianna
Ferdinando Scianna, born in Bagheria, Sicily in 1943, is an Italian photographer and the first Italian admitted to Magnum Photos, known for reportage on Sicilian religious festivals and fashion photography for Dolce & Gabbana.
Fernand Khnopff
Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921) was a Belgian Symbolist painter, draftsman, sculptor, and photographer whose mysterious portraits and dreamlike interiors influenced Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession.
Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger (1881–1955) was a French painter born in Argentan, Normandy, counted among the major figures of modern art and a pioneer of Cubism whose work spans the first half of the twentieth century.
Fernando Amorsolo
Fernando Amorsolo (1892–1972) was a Filipino painter famous for backlit rural genre scenes and the dalagang bukid, trained under Fabián de la Rosa and in Madrid, and the first posthumous National Artist of the Philippines in 1972.
Fernando Bengoechea
Fernando Bengoechea (1965-2004), Argentine New York interior photographer, pioneer of woven photographs (Karma Tree series), partner of Nate Berkus, died in the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami; brother Marcelo continues his woven-photography legacy.