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French Academy in Rome
The French Academy in Rome, known as the Villa Médicis, is a French state institution founded by Louis XIV in 1666 that hosts artists in residence in Rome.
French Baroque painting
French Baroque painting is the 17th-century painting of France, a restrained, classically organized adaptation of the Italian Baroque associated with Louis XIV's Grand Siècle and the Royal Academy.
French fashion
French fashion: the Paris-centered clothing and couture system, from Worth's 1858 haute couture house and the legally protected 1945 label to today's Paris Fashion Week and a market where secondhand and ultra fast fashion take 25% of volume.
French genre painting
French genre painting, or peinture de genre, is the branch of French art depicting everyday life, from the Le Nain brothers through Watteau, Chardin, and Greuze to Fragonard.
Fresco
Fresco (affresco) is wall painting on plaster: buon fresco applies water-borne pigment to wet lime plaster that carbonates to calcium carbonate, locking in color; secco uses binders on dry plaster.
Frescoes of the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street
The frescoes of the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street (Спаса Преображения на Ильине улице) are a 1378 mural cycle by Theophanes the Greek in Novgorod.
Frescoes of the Ferapontov Monastery
The Frescoes of the Ferapontov Monastery are murals painted in 1502 by the Moscow master Dionisy in northern Russia, preserved almost intact and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, 1907–1954), Mexican painter of Coyoacán's Casa Azul; 143 paintings, 55 self-portraits; wife of Diego Rivera; rejected the Surrealist label; work declared Mexican national artistic monument in 1984.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Friedrich Stowasser, 1928–2000), Austrian painter, printmaker and architect; spiral motifs, anti-straight-line architecture, Hundertwasserhaus Vienna, tree tenants, ecological activism, New Zealand years.
Frightful Four
Frightful Four: Marvel Comics supervillain team, evil counterpart to the Fantastic Four; created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Fantastic Four #36 (March 1965) with Wizard, Sandman, Paste-Pot Pete, and Medusa.
Fritz Scholder
Fritz Scholder (1937–2005) was an American painter and printmaker of Luiseño descent whose boldly colored images of Native Americans challenged stereotypes and shaped New American Indian Art in the 1970s.
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried
A 1995–1996 photographic installation by Carrie Mae Weems, made for the Getty Museum, that enlarges, tints red, and inscribes 33 appropriated photographs of enslaved and other Black subjects.
From the Faraway, Nearby
From the Faraway, Nearby is a 1937 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe of a mule deer skull on a desert landscape, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Fruits of the Sea
Fruits of the Sea (Umi no sachi, 海の幸) is a 1904 oil painting by Japanese painter Aoki Shigeru, showing ten nude fishermen carrying three large sharks across a beach.
Frutiger Aero
Frutiger Aero, or Web 2.0 Gloss, is the glossy, nature-meets-technology design aesthetic of roughly 2004–2013, named for Adrian Frutiger's typeface and Windows Aero; coined by Sofi Lee (CARI) in 2017 and revived on TikTok from 2022.
Fu Baoshi
Fu Baoshi (傅抱石, 1904–1965) was a Chinese painter, art historian, and seal carver who led the renewal of traditional Chinese landscape painting and founded the New Jinling School.
Fua Haripitak
Fua Haripitak (เฟื้อ หริพิทักษ์, 1910–1993) was a Thai painter known for pioneering modern Thai painting with Impressionist and Cubist styles and for conserving Wat Rakhang's temple murals.
Fuchsia (color)
Fuchsia (color): vivid pinkish-purple color, CSS keyword fuchsia, hex #FF00FF, exact synonym of magenta; one of 16 VGA-derived HTML basic colors; name from the fuchsine dye, ultimately honoring botanist Leonhart Fuchs.
Fudō Myōō at Tō-ji
Fudō Myōō at Tō-ji (不動明王, Acala) are two national treasure wooden statues at Tō-ji in Kyoto: one completed in 839, one a secret Buddha never publicly shown.
Fudō Myōō of Jingo-ji
Fudō Myōō of Jingo-ji (不動明王) is the principal image of Jingo-ji temple's fire-ritual hall in Kyoto, long considered Edo-period until conservation showed it dates to the late Heian period.
Fūjin Raijin-zu
Fūjin Raijin-zu (風神雷神図屏風), meaning Wind God and Thunder God screens, is a pair of 17th-century folding screens by Tawaraya Sōtatsu, a National Treasure held by Kennin-ji temple in Kyoto.
Fujishima Takeji
Fujishima Takeji (藤島武二, 1867–1943) was a Japanese Western-style oil painter, a leading figure of Meiji romanticism who received the first Order of Culture in 1937.
Fujiwara Kei
Fujiwara Kei (藤原啓), real name Keiji, was a Japanese ceramicist of Bizen ware who became a Living National Treasure in 1970, known for the plain style called Kei Bizen.
Fukami Sueharu
Fukami Sueharu (深見陶治, born 1947) is a Japanese ceramic artist and sculptor based in Kyoto, known for sharp-edged abstract porcelain sculptures finished in a pale blue seihakuji glaze.
Fukūkenjaku Kannon
Fukūkenjaku Kannon (不空羂索観音), also read Fukūkensaku Kannon, is a Japanese esoteric form of the bodhisattva Kannon whose noose catches and saves every sentient being; his celebrated 746 statue stands at Tōdai-ji.
Fukūkenjaku Kannon of Kōfuku-ji
The Fukūkenjaku Kannon of Kōfuku-ji, also read Fukūkensaku Kannon, is a National Treasure wooden seated statue carved by Kōkei in 1188–1189 as the principal image of Kōfuku-ji's Nanendō in Nara, Japan.
Fukumi Shimura
Fukumi Shimura (志村ふくみ, born 1924) is a Japanese dyeing-and-weaving artist who weaves kimonos from plant-dyed tsumugi silk, certified a Living National Treasure in 1990 and known for her Tale of Genji series.
Fuller Brooch
The Fuller Brooch is a late ninth-century Anglo-Saxon silver and niello disc brooch in the British Museum, the earliest English depiction of the Five Senses.
Funky Winkerbean
Funky Winkerbean, also known as Funky, was Tom Batiuk's newspaper comic strip about Westview High School, running March 27, 1972 to December 31, 2022, famous for its 1992 time jump and the Lisa Moore breast-cancer storyline that made Batiuk a 2008 Pulitzer finalist.
Fur Affinity
Fur Affinity (FurAffinity, furaffinity.net), founded 16 January 2005 by Alkora, is the furry fandom's largest art, music, and story community; owned by IMVU from 2015, independent under Dragoneer from 2021 until his 2024 death.