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American muralism
American muralism is the public wall painting movement that flourished in the United States from the late 1920s through the 1940s, shaped by Mexican muralism.
American neoclassical sculpture
American neoclassical sculpture is the marble statuary made by American sculptors in the nineteenth century in the style of ancient Greek and Roman art, largely by expatriates in Florence and Rome.
American Neoclassicism
American Neoclassicism was the American adaptation of the European Neoclassical style, a revival of ancient Greek and Roman models in painting, sculpture, and architecture, eagerly adopted after the Revolution.
American Progress
American Progress (1872) is John Gast's oil painting of Manifest Destiny, commissioned by publisher George Crofutt, showing Columbia leading settlers west while Native Americans and buffalo retreat; held at the Autry Museum.
American Scene painting
American Scene painting is an umbrella term for the naturalistic painting of American life that flourished in the 1920s through the 1940s, embracing rural Regionalism and urban Social Realism.
American stained glass
American stained glass is the tradition of colored-glass windows in the United States, transformed in the 1870s by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany's opalescent windows.
Amida Nyorai of Chūson-ji
The Amida Nyorai of Chūson-ji is a gilt-wood Buddha image enshrined in the golden Konjikidō hall at Chūson-ji temple in Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, erected by Fujiwara no Kiyohira in 1124.
Amida Nyorai of Hōkai-ji
The Amida Nyorai of Hōkai-ji (法界寺阿弥陀如来坐像) is a National Treasure wooden seated statue of Amida Buddha at Hōkai-ji temple in Kyoto, made in the late 11th or early 12th century.
Amitabha Triad of 593
The Amitabha Triad of 593 is a bronze Buddhist altarpiece made in Sui dynasty China, depicting Buddha Amitabha with attendant bodhisattvas and held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Among the Sierra Nevada, California
Among the Sierra Nevada, California is an 1868 oil-on-canvas landscape by German-born American painter Albert Bierstadt, held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Amos Bad Heart Bull Ledger
A ledger book of over 400 pictographic drawings made by Oglala Lakota artist Amos Bad Heart Bull between 1890 and 1913, recording Oglala warfare and daily life.
Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941), Hungarian-Indian painter and pioneer of modern Indian art; Paris-trained, merged Indian miniature and mural traditions with European modernism; NGMA Delhi holds her largest collection.
Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald (born 1973) is an American painter who renders Black subjects' skin in shades of gray and painted Michelle Obama's official National Portrait Gallery portrait in 2018.
An Jia funerary couch
The An Jia funerary couch is a gilded stone burial couch excavated in Xi'an in 2000, dated 579 CE and made for a Sogdian official of the Northern Zhou.
An Jung-sik
An Jung-sik (안중식, pen name Simjeon, 1861–1919) was a Korean painter who served as the last official court painter of the Joseon dynasty and trained the first generation of modern Korean painters.
An-My Lê
An-My Lê is a Vietnamese American photographer, born in Saigon in 1960, whose large-format work examines war through reenactments, military training grounds, and the Museum of Modern Art's 2023 survey Between Two Rivers.
Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), Cuban-American earth-body and performance artist, creator of the Silueta series; exiled via Operation Peter Pan, trained at University of Iowa, died in a fall from her New York apartment; her husband Carl Andre was acquitted of her murder.
Anab Jain
Anab Jain is an Indian designer based in London who co-founded the futures studio Superflux in 2009 and has taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2016.
Anaïs Gallagher
Anaïs Gallagher (born 2000) is an English model, photographer, and presenter, daughter of Oasis's Noel Gallagher and Meg Mathews; Select Models signee at 12, Mulberry ambassador, and tour photographer for the Oasis reunion.
Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis is a distorted-projection art technique in which a pre-distorted image resolves only from one vantage point, in a curved mirror (catoptric), or through a lens; famous examples include Holbein's The Ambassadors skull and modern street art.
Ancient Greek art (Αρχαία ελληνική τέχνη)
Ancient Greek art (Αρχαία ελληνική τέχνη): pottery, sculpture, and architecture from the Geometric through the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC), defined by the Archaic-to-Classical shift toward naturalism, black- and red-figure vase painting, and ongoing repatriation debates.
Ancient Greek temple
Ancient Greek temple (naos, ναός, "temple"): a sanctuary building housing a deity's cult image, not a congregational space. Doric and Ionic orders from the 6th century BCE, Corinthian later; Parthenon built 447–432 BC.
Anders Zorn
Anders Zorn (1860–1920) was a Swedish painter, etcher, and sculptor who became one of Europe's leading portrait painters, painting three US presidents including Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt.
André Beauneveu
André Beauneveu, also spelled Adrien Beauneveu, was a sculptor and painter from Valenciennes who served the courts of France, Flanders, and Berry in the late 1300s.
André Derain
André Derain (1880–1954) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, a foremost practitioner of Fauvism who later worked with Braque and Picasso and returned to classical tradition.
André Kertész
André Kertész (1894–1985) was a Hungarian-born photographer who worked in Budapest, Paris, and New York for over seventy years, blending photojournalism with formalist abstraction and influencing photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Andre the Giant Has a Posse
Andre the Giant Has a Posse is a 1989 street art sticker campaign by Shepard Fairey, created at RISD in Providence, showing wrestler Andre the Giant's face; it evolved into the OBEY GIANT campaign after estate pressure.
Andrea del Sarto
Andrea del Sarto, born Andrea d'Agnolo (1486–1530), was a leading Florentine painter of the early 16th century whose works include the Madonna of the Harpies in the Uffizi.
Andrea del Verrocchio
Andrea del Verrocchio, or Andrea di Michele Cione, was a Florentine sculptor and painter who led an influential workshop in the 15th century. He trained Leonardo da Vinci.
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter and engraver, one of the foremost north Italian artists of the fifteenth century, famous for his experiments with perspective and classical themes.