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Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri is an 1845 oil painting by George Caleb Bingham showing a French fur trader and his part-Native American son drifting down the Missouri River.
Furniture
Furniture: movable articles such as chairs, tables, beds and cupboards that equip buildings for living and working. Covers function classes, materials and manufacture (NAICS 337), history, BIFMA/EN/GB testing standards, and sustainability certifications like LEVEL and EU Ecolabel.
Fury (DC Comics)
Fury (DC Comics) is a codename shared by three DC superheroes: Helena Kosmatos, the Golden Age Fury; her daughter Lyta Trevor of Infinity, Inc.; and a New 52 Earth 2 character. Lyta, originally Wonder Woman's daughter, is the mother of Daniel Hall in The Sandman.
Fusuma Paintings of Chishaku-in
The Fusuma Paintings of Chishaku-in (智積院障壁画) are Momoyama-period gold-ground sliding-door paintings made around 1592 by Hasegawa Tōhaku, whose Maple and Cherry Blossom panels are National Treasures.
Fusuma-e
Fusuma-e (襖絵) is the painting applied to fusuma, the opaque sliding partitions of Japanese architecture, part of shōhekiga and reaching its peak in Momoyama- and Edo-period castles and temples.
Futura (typeface)
Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927 by the Bauersche Giesserei (Bauer Type Foundry), Frankfurt. Known for circular bowls, single-story a, small x-height, Apollo 11 plaque use, and Bauer Types trademark.
Futurism
Futurism (Futurismo) was the Italian avant-garde movement founded by F. T. Marinetti in Milan in 1909, launched via the Futurist Manifesto in Le Figaro; it glorified machines, speed, and war, and became tied to Italian Fascism.
Fūzokuga
Fūzokuga (風俗画) is a Japanese term for paintings depicting the customs and daily life of social classes, flourishing in the Momoyama and early Edo periods and leading to ukiyo-e.
FX Harsono
FX Harsono, born Oh Hong Boen (胡丰文) in 1949, is an Indonesian contemporary artist whose installation and performance works have chronicled Indonesian political history, including his Chinese-Indonesian identity.
Fyodor Rokotov
Fyodor Rokotov (Фёдор Степанович Рокотов, 1735/36–1808) was a leading Russian portrait painter, creator of the intimate chamber portrait and the 1772 Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya.
Fyodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God
The Fyodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God (Феодоровская икона) is a Russian icon in Kostroma, venerated since the 17th century as the Romanov dynasty's family shrine.
G. K. Vishnu
G. K. Vishnu (ஜி.கே.விஷ்ணு), also GK Vishnu, is an Indian cinematographer in Tamil cinema. A computer science engineer turned self-taught cinematographer, he debuted with Mersal (2017) and shot Bigil, Krack, Jawan, and Karuppu.
G. R. Santosh
G. R. Santosh, also known as Ghulam Rasool Santosh, was a Kashmiri painter and poet who pioneered Neo-Tantra in modern Indian art and won the Sahitya Akademi award in 1979.
Gabriel Metsu
Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, born in Leiden and active in Amsterdam, best known for refined domestic genre scenes such as The Sick Child.
Gabriel Orozco
Gabriel Orozco is a Mexican artist born in 1962 in Xalapa, Veracruz, known for works like La DS and Black Kites, with a major MoMA retrospective in 2009.
Gabriele Münter
Gabriele Münter was a German Expressionist painter and co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter who worked in Murnau and donated major Blue Rider works to Munich's Lenbachhaus in 1957.
Gaetano Pesce
Gaetano Pesce was an Italian architect and designer known for experimental plastics and irregular forms, a leading Radical Design figure whose 1969 UP armchair became iconic.
Gaganendranath Tagore
Gaganendranath Tagore (গগনেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 1867–1938) was an Indian painter, cartoonist, and stage designer of Calcutta, a nephew of Rabindranath Tagore and pioneer of modernist Indian painting.
Gahan Wilson
Gahan Wilson (1930-2019), American macabre cartoonist whose single-panel gags appeared in Playboy from 1957 and The New Yorker from 1980; creator of the strip Nuts, designer of the World Fantasy Award's Lovecraft trophy, and World Fantasy Award winner.
Gai Qi
Gai Qi (1773–1828) was a Chinese painter of the mid-Qing dynasty based in Songjiang, the most celebrated painter of beautiful women of his generation and founder of the Gai School.
Gaki zōshi
Gaki zōshi (餓鬼草紙, "Scroll of Hungry Ghosts") is a set of 12th-century Japanese narrative handscrolls depicting gaki, the hungry ghosts of Buddhist cosmology; two scrolls are National Treasures held in Tokyo and Kyoto.
Gakkō Bosatsu of Yakushi-ji
Gakkō Bosatsu (月光菩薩, Moonlight Bodhisattva) is a gilt-bronze attendant bodhisattva flanking Yakushi Nyorai at Yakushi-ji in Nara, part of the National Treasure Yakushi Triad of the 7th–8th century.
Gal Vihara
Gal Vihara, originally named Uttararama, is a 12th-century Buddhist rock shrine in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, where four large Buddha figures were cut from a single granite rock face.
Gala Dalí
Gala Dalí (Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, 1894-1982), Russian-born muse, wife, model, and business manager of Salvador Dalí and first wife of Paul Éluard; born in Kazan, met Dalí in Cadaqués in 1929, and received Púbol Castle, her burial place.
Galaxy of Musicians
Galaxy of Musicians, also titled A Galaxy of Musicians, is an 1889 oil painting by Raja Ravi Varma depicting eleven women from across India making music together.
Gallé glass
Gallé glass is the Art Nouveau art glass of French designer Émile Gallé (1846–1904) of Nancy, made in layered cameo-cut glass decorated with botanical and insect subjects.
Gamora
Gamora, the deadliest woman in the galaxy, is a Marvel Comics assassin (first appearance 1975), adopted daughter of Thanos, and a Guardians of the Galaxy member played by Zoe Saldana in the MCU.
Ganesh Pyne
Ganesh Pyne (1937–2013) was an Indian painter from Kolkata known for small, dark tempera paintings blending Bengali folklore and mythology, a style called poetic surrealism.
Ganjin statue
The Ganjin statue (鑑真和上坐像) is an 8th-century dry lacquer sculpture of the monk Jianzhen at Tōshōdaiji in Nara, Japan's oldest portrait sculpture and a National Treasure.
Gao Jianfu
Gao Jianfu (高劍父, 1879–1951) was a Chinese painter and art educator who, with his brother Gao Qifeng and Chen Shuren, founded the reformist Lingnan School of painting.