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Flash (photography)
Flash photography: making photos with a brief intense burst of artificial light, from 1864 magnesium powder through 1929 flashbulbs to electronic strobes; covers sync, soft light, fill flash, and flash versus continuous lighting.
Flash Thompson
Flash Thompson (Eugene Thompson) is a Marvel Comics character, Spider-Man's high school bully and biggest fan, later a legless war veteran who becomes Agent Venom and Agent Anti-Venom, debuting in Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962).
Flávio de Carvalho
Flávio de Carvalho, born Flávio de Rezende Carvalho, was a Brazilian engineer, architect, painter, and writer in São Paulo, a forerunner of performance art in Brazil.
Flemish Baroque painting
Flemish Baroque painting is the dramatic, colorful 17th-century style of the Catholic Southern Netherlands, shaped by the Counter-Reformation and epitomized by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens.
Fleur-de-lis
Fleur-de-lis (fleur-de-lys), a stylized three-petaled lily or iris heraldic device; emblem of the kings of France from the 12th century, reduced to three by Charles V in 1376; now official emblem of Quebec and Louisiana.
Flickr
Flickr: photo-sharing and photo-management website launched February 10, 2004 by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake at Ludicorp, Vancouver; owned by Yahoo 2005, SmugMug/Awesome 2018; known for tags, groups, Flickr Commons, and 1,000-photo free tier.
Flip book
Flip book (flipbook, flick book, kineograph, Daumenkino): a booklet of gradually changing images that animates when flipped, using persistence of vision. First patented by John Barnes Linnett in Britain, 18 March 1868, as the Kineograph; a major 19th-century optical toy.
Flora Danica
Flora Danica is a monumental illustrated botanical atlas of Danish wild plants, published in Copenhagen in 51 parts from 1761 to 1883 with 3,240 colored copperplate engravings.
Florence Henri
Florence Henri (1893–1982) was a Swiss artist, born in New York, who studied painting with Fernand Léger, trained at the Bauhaus in 1927, and became a leading interwar experimental photographer in Paris.
Florentine school
The Florentine school is the painting and sculpture tradition centered in Florence from the late 13th century, conventionally traced to Giotto and a leading force of the Italian Renaissance.
Florine Stettheimer
Florine Stettheimer was an American painter, poet, and theatrical designer who chronicled Jazz Age New York and designed the sets for Gertrude Stein's opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
Floristry
Floristry: the cultivation, trade, and arrangement of cut flowers by floral designers (florists). Covers duties, Dutch trade origins, Constance Spry, U.S. employment of 45,200 with $37,360 median wage, and sustainability and pesticide concerns.
Flowers (Warhol)
Flowers is a series of paintings and prints by Andy Warhol, begun in 1964, silkscreening a cropped photograph of hibiscus flowers onto more than five hundred canvases.
Flowers on the River
Flowers on the River (河上花圖卷) is a 1697 ink-on-paper handscroll of lotus painted by Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) at age 72, now in the Tianjin Museum.
Fluxus
Fluxus: international avant-garde art movement founded by George Maciunas, active early 1960s to 1978, integrating art and life through event scores, fluxkits, festivals, and multiples.
Flying Horse of Gansu
The Flying Horse of Gansu (铜奔马) is a Han-dynasty bronze horse with one hoof on a flying bird, unearthed in Wuwei in 1969 and China's tourism symbol.
Fons Americanus
Fons Americanus is a 13-meter fountain by Kara Walker shown in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2019 and 2020, reworking the Victoria Memorial as an allegory of the slave trade.
Food porn
Food porn, also called gastro-porn or #foodporn, is a term for glamorized, highly appetizing food imagery, coined by Michael Jacobson in 1979 after Cockburn's 1977 gastro-porn, now a widespread social media hashtag and scholarly concept.
For the Love of God
For the Love of God is Damien Hirst's 2007 platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull set with 8,601 diamonds (1,106.18 carats) and original teeth, priced at £50 million and sold to a consortium including the artist himself.
Forbes list of the world's highest-paid models
Forbes list of the world's highest-paid models: annual pretax earnings ranking published 2003 to 2018, dominated by Gisele Bündchen (record $47 million, 2014) and ended with Kendall Jenner at $22.5 million in December 2018.
Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), born in Calais, was an English painter closely tied to but never a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; he taught Rossetti, painted The Last of England and Work, and created the Manchester Town Hall murals.
Forensic photography
Forensic photography is the photographic documentation of crime scenes, evidence, and injuries for criminal investigation and courts, governed by protocols that preserve accuracy and chain of custody.
Forever Bicycles
Forever Bicycles (永久自行车) is an ongoing installation series by Ai Weiwei, begun in 2003, in which Forever-brand bicycles are dismantled and welded into monumental interlocking structures.
Forever People
The Forever People are a DC Comics superhero team of five young New Gods created by Jack Kirby, debuting in The Forever People #1 (1971) as part of the Fourth World saga; touching their Mother Box summons the Infinity Man.
Formalism (art)
Formalism (art): theory and method holding that an artwork's value lies in formal, directly sensible properties like line, color, and composition. Key figures: Clive Bell, Wölfflin, Riegl, Clement Greenberg; critics include Danto and Schapiro.
Formline art
Formline art is the design system of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples of the Northwest Coast, built from flowing, tapering lines around ovoids and U-shapes.
Fortunato Depero
Fortunato Depero was an Italian Futurist painter, designer, and illustrator who co-wrote the 1915 Reconstruction of the Universe manifesto and designed the Campari Soda bottle.
Forty-Two Kids
Forty-Two Kids is a 1907 oil painting by the American realist George Bellows, showing boys swimming and sunbathing on a rundown wharf over New York's East River.
Fountain (Duchamp)
Fountain (Fontaine), Marcel Duchamp's 1917 readymade: a porcelain urinal laid on its back and signed "R. Mutt 1917", rejected by the Society of Independent Artists, known through a Stieglitz photograph and eleven authorized replicas.
Fountain of Neptune, Bologna
The Fountain of Neptune (Fontana del Nettuno) is a monumental Renaissance fountain in Bologna, Italy, built between 1563 and 1567 by Tommaso Laureti and Giambologna.