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Visual arts
History of art
Concepts and forms
Specific works of visual art
Modern visual arts
1968 Olympics Black Power salute
Protest during 1968 Olympic Games
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Painting by Édouard Manet
A Cotton Office in New Orleans
Painting by Edgar Degas
A Harlot's Progress
Series of paintings and engravings by William Hogarth
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Painting by Georges Seurat
Abstract art
Art with a degree of independence from visual references in the world
Abstract expressionism
American post–World War II art movement
Academic art
Style of painting and sculpture
Afghan Girl
1985 cover photograph on National Geographic magazine
African art
Art from indigenous Africans or the African continent
Along the River During the Qingming Festival
Painting attributed to Zhang Zeduan
American Gothic
Painting by Grant Wood
Ancient art
Art by advanced cultures of ancient societies
Ancient Greek art
Art of Ancient Greece
Anglo-Saxon art
Art of the Anglo-Saxon period
Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)
Marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Applied arts
Branch in the production of consumer goods
Architectural painting
Painting genre
Armour of the Kelly gang
Homemade armour used by Ned Kelly and his associates
Arnolfini Portrait
1434 painting by Jan van Eyck
Art Deco
20th-century architectural and art style
Art Nouveau
Style of art and architecture about 1890 to 1911
Artemis and the Stag
Statue in New York City, United States of America
Artistic symbol
Late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin
Artist's book
Work of art in the form of a book
Arts and Crafts movement
Design movement c. 1880–1920
At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance
Painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Athena Parthenos
Sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena
Athena Promachos
Ancient sculpture of Phidias in Athens Acropolis
Athenaeum Portrait
1796 unfinished portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart
Auschwitz Album
Photographic record of the Holocaust
Automotive design
Process of developing the appearance of motor vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, buses, coaches, and vans
Avant-garde
Works that are experimental or innovative
Bacchus and Ariadne
Painting by Titian
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Painting by Auguste Renoir, big version in the Musée d'Orsay
Banality (sculpture series)
Sculpture series by Jeff Koons
Bande dessinée
Comic of the classical Franco-Belgian style
Barack Obama "Hope" poster
Image designed by Shepard Fairey
Barge Haulers on the Volga
Painting by Ilya Repin
Baroque
Artistic style in Europe and colonies, c. 1600–1750
Baroque sculpture
Sculpture of the Baroque movement
Bathers at Asnières
Painting by Georges Seurat
Bauhaus
Famous German art school that combined crafts and the fine arts
Bayeux Tapestry
Embroidery depicting the Norman invasion of England in 1066
Beadwork
Decoration technique
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
Poster by El Lissitzky
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
Painting by Lucian Freud
Bhimbetka rock shelters
30,000+ years old archaeological World Heritage site in Madhya Pradesh, India
Bird in Space
Sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși
Black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn
Dress from the opening of the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's
Black Iris (painting)
Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Paintings
Set of paintings by Francisco Goya
Black Square
Painting by Kazimir Malevich
Bliss (photograph)
Default computer wallpaper of Windows XP
Bloody Saturday (photograph)
Photograph by H. S. Wong
Blue Horses
Painting by Franz Marc
Body art
Art with the human body
Bone carving
Folk art of carving designs in animal bones, teeth, horns, or antlers, or making figures or implements from these materials
Bonsai
Japanese miniature trees
Book of Kells
8th-century illuminated manuscript Gospel book, held in Trinity College, Dublin
Bookbinding
Process of assembling a book
Buddhist art
Artistic practices that are influenced by Buddhism
Building Design
UK magazine (1970–2014)
Burnishing (pottery)
To polish the surface of a ceramic vessel
Burst of Joy
Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph
Bust (sculpture)
Sculpture of a person's head and shoulders
Byzantine art
Art of the Byzantine Empire
Café Terrace at Night
Painting by Vincent van Gogh
Calligraphy
Visual art related to writing
Campbell's Soup Cans
1962 artwork by Andy Warhol
Capitoline Wolf
Bronze sculpture of a she-wolf suckling twin infants, inspired by the founding legend of Rome
Carolingian art
Art of the Frankish empire, ca. 780–900
Cartoonist
Visual artist who makes cartoons
Carving
Act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material
Cave of El Castillo
Cave and archaeological site with prehistoric paintings in Spain
Cave painting
Paintings, often prehistoric, on cave walls and ceilings
Celtic art
Art associated with Celtic peoples
Ceramic art
Decorative objects made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery
Ceramic glaze
Layer or coating of vitreous substance fused to a ceramic object
Charles I in Three Positions
Painting by Anthony van Dyck
Chauvet Cave
French cave with prehistoric paintings
Chicago Picasso
Sculpture by Pablo Picasso
Chinese art
Visual art that originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists
Chinese ceramics
Pottery and porcelain from China
Chinese jade
Jade mined or carved in China from the Neolithic onward
Chinese painting
Artistic tradition
Chop Suey (Hopper)
Painting by Edward Hopper
Christian art
Art genre
Christina's World
Painting by Andrew Wyeth
Classicism
Art movement and architectural style
Cloud Gate
Sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Chicago, US
Codex Gigas
Manuscript compendium from the 13th century
Coiling (pottery)
Method of making pottery
Collage
Technique of art production using assemblage of different forms
Comic strip
Short serialized comics
Comics
Creative work in which pictures and text convey information such as narratives
Composition (visual arts)
Placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Painting by Piet Mondrian
Computer graphics
Graphics created using computers
Conceptual art
Art movement
Confucian art
Art inspired by Confucius and his teachings
Constructivism (art)
Artistic and architectural philosophy originating in Russia
Contemporary art
Art of the present time
Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
1854 sculpture series in Crystal Palace Park, London, United Kingdom
Crystal skull
Quartz carvings in the shape of a human skull
Cubism
Early-20th-century avant-garde art movement
DaDa
1983 studio album by Alice Cooper
Dance (Matisse)
1910 painting series made by Henri Matisse
Dancing Girl
4,500 year old bronze sculpture from the Indus Valley Civilisation city of Mohenjo daro
David (disambiguation)
Bronze statue by Donatello
David (Michelangelo)
Statue by Michelangelo
De Stijl
Dutch art movement
Decorative arts
Arts or crafts concerned with the design and manufacture of functional, beautiful objects
Demi's Birthday Suit
Photograph by Annie Leibovitz
Demoscene
Computer art subculture
Design
Drafting of a plan or specification for the construction of an object or of a system; process of creation; act of creativity and innovation
Detroit Industry Murals
Series of frescoes by Diego Rivera
Digital art
Collective term for art that is generated digitally with a computer
Digital painting
Type of art created using computers
Discobolus
Greek sculpture by Myron
Dogs Playing Poker
Set of paintings by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Doomsday Clock
Symbol which represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe
Drawing
Visual artwork in two-dimensional medium
Drawing Hands
Lithograph by Dutch artist M. C. Escher
Drowning Girl
Painting by Roy Lichtenstein
Dutch Golden Age painting
17th-century form of Dutch painting
Earthenware
Nonvitreous pottery
Earthrise
Photograph of the Earth taken by astronaut Bill Anders during the Apollo 8 mission
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Elgin Marbles
Ancient Greek sculptures held in London
Empire style
19th-century Neoclassical art movement
Engraving
Incising designs by cutting into a surface
Environmental art
Artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works
Equestrian statue of Gattamelata
Sculpture by Donatello
Etching
Intaglio printmaking technique
Etruscan art
Art movement
Expressionism
Modernist art movement
Fabergé egg
Valuable jewelled egg from Russia
Family Group (Moore)
Sculpture series by Henry Moore (LH 269)
Farnese Hercules
Ancient statue of Hercules in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples
Fashion
Popular style or practice in clothing, personal adornment, or decorative arts
Fashion design
Art of applying design and aesthetics to clothing and accessories
Fashion photography
Genre of photography
Feminist art
Art that reflects women’s lives and experiences
Figurative art
Art that depicts real object sources
Figure painting
Genre of painting that represents the human form
Fine art
Art developed primarily for aesthetics
Fine Wind, Clear Morning
Woodblock print by Hokusai
Floral design
Artistic design of flowers and plants for decoration
Fluxus
International network of artists, composers and designers
Folk art
Art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople
Found object
Non-standard material used in work of art
Fountain (Duchamp)
1917 sculpture by Marcel Duchamp
Fresco
Mural painting upon freshly laid lime plaster
Frieze
Wide central section part of an entablature
Futurism
Artistic and social movement
Game design
Game development process of designing the content and rules of a game
Garden design
Art and process of designing and creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes
Gassed (painting)
Painting by John Singer Sargent
Gates of Hell (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
Geoglyph
Motif produced on the ground; observed only remotely or from space
Ghent Altarpiece
Polyptych by Jan and Hubert van Eyck
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Painting by Johannes Vermeer
Girl with Balloon
Banksy mural
Girl with Peaches
Painting by Valentin Serov
Glass art
Work of art which is substantially or wholly made of glass
Gommateshwara statue
Jain sculpture in Shravanbelagola, India
Gothic art
Style of Medieval art developed in Northern France
Gouache
Type of paint
Graffiti
Drawings and paintings on walls
Grande Odalisque
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Graphic design
Process of visual communication
Graphic novel
Book with primarily comics contents
Great Mongol Shahnameh
The most important manuscript of the Shahnameh epic poem from the Ilkhanid period
Green Versace dress of Jennifer Lopez
Outfit worn to 42nd Grammy Awards in 2000
Grotesque
Art style
Guennol Lioness
5000-year-old Proto-Elamite statue
Guernica (Picasso)
1937 oil painting by Pablo Picasso
Guerrillero Heroico
Iconic photo of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara by Alberto Korda
Handicraft
Item production made completely by hand or with simple tools
Hardstone carving
Artistic carving of semi-precious stones or gems
Hellenistic art
Art movement
Hermes and the Infant Dionysus
Sculpture by Praxiteles found at Olympia, Greece
Hindu art
Art associated with Hindus
Ikebana
Traditional Japanese flower arranging
Illustration
Depiction made by an artist
Impression, Sunrise
Painting by Claude Monet
Impressionism
19th-century art movement
Indian art
Art from Indian Subcontinent cultures
Indigenous Australian art
Art made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia
Industrial design
Process of design
Information design
Communication and graphic design
Ink wash painting
East Asian painting style using black ink of different concentrations
Installation art
Three-dimensional work of art, usually from various materials and larger than a sculpture
Interchange (de Kooning)
Painting by Willem de Kooning
Interior design
Design of interior spaces to benefit its occupants
Into the Jaws of Death
Item in the National Archives and Records Administration's holdings
Ironstone china
Vitreous pottery
Islamic art
Art associated with Muslims
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan
Painting by Ilya Repin
Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph
Photograph of Nazi atrocities in Ukraine
Japanese art
Overview of art in Japan
Japanese pottery and porcelain
Ceramics from Japan
Japanese sculpture
Art of sculpture in Japan
Jimson Weed (painting)
Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe
Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, Naples)
1612–13 painting by Artemisia Gentileschi
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il portraits
Mandatory depictions of the North Korean rulers
Kinetic art
Genre of artworks that contains movement
Kitsch
Art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes
Knight, Death and the Devil
Copper engraving by Albrecht Dürer
Kombat (photograph)
World War II photograph
Kozarčanka
World War II photograph
Kunstformen der Natur
Book of stylised symmetrical illustrations of animals by German biologist Ernst Haeckel.
L.H.O.O.Q.
Readymade by Marcel Duchamp
La Maja desnuda
Painting by Francisco de Goya.
Lady with an Ermine
Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci
Land art
A form of art creation
Landscape by Sesshū
Painting by Sesshū Tōyō
Landscape design
Design profession
Landscape painting
Depiction of landscapes in art
Lantingji Xu
Calligraphy by Wang Xizhi
Laocoön and His Sons
Ancient sculpture excavated in Rome in 1506 and displayed in the Vatican
Las Meninas
1656 painting by Diego Velázquez
Lascaux
Cave in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Painting by Édouard Manet
Le génie du mal
Religious sculpture by Belgian artist Guillaume Geefs
Le Sommeil
Painting by Gustave Courbet
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Painting by Pablo Picasso
L'Homme au doigt
Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
Liberty Leading the People
Painting by Eugène Delacroix, Louvre
Ligature (writing)
Glyph combining two or more letterforms
Lion Monument
Sculpture in Lucerne by Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lion of Venice
Statue
Lion-man
Prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in the Hohlenstein-Stadel, a cave in Germany
Lithography
Printing technique
Lithophane
Etched or molded artwork in very thin translucent porcelain, intended to be backlit
Logo
Graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition
L'Origine du monde
Oil-on-canvas painted by Gustave Courbet
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
1932 photograph of workers atop the steelwork of 30 Rockefeller Plaza
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Luther Monument (Worms)
Large group monument for Martin Luther in Worms, often copied
Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
Painting by Albert Edelfelt
Madonna of Bruges
Sculpture by Michelangelo
Man at the Crossroads
Fresco by Diego Rivera
Manga
Comics or graphic novels created in Japan
Manhua
Style of Chinese-language comics produced in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Manhwa
Comics created in Korea
Manneken Pis
Brass sculpture and fountain by Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder
Mannerism
Style of European art
Marilyn Diptych
Silkscreen painting by Andy Warhol
Mask of Tutankhamun
Gold mask of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun
Meat-Shaped Stone
Artistic masterpiece from Qing China
Medieval art
Epoch of European art
Melencolia I
1514 engraving by Albrecht Dürer
Memorial
Area or object, smaller than a monument, which serves as a focus for memory of something
Merlion
Official mascot of Singapore
Migration Period art
Art movement
Miniature (illuminated manuscript)
Picture in an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript
Minimalism
Movements in various forms of art and design
Moai
Monolithic human figures on Easter Island
Modern art
Artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s
Modernism
Cultural and artistic movement
Mona Lisa
Painting by Leonardo da Vinci
Monument
Structure built to commemorate a relevant person or event
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Photograph by Ansel Adams
Mosaic
Image made from small colored tiles
Moses (Michelangelo)
Sculpture by Michelangelo
Mr and Mrs Andrews
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough
Mural
Piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a large permanent surface
Murujuga
Burrup Peninsula on the Pilbara coastline of Western Australia
My Bed
Artwork by Tracey Emin
My Wife and My Mother-in-Law
Optical illusion
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Series of paintings by Jacques-Louis David
Nautilus (photograph)
Photograph by Edward Weston
Navicella (mosaic)
Lost mosaic by Giotto
Needlework
Craft of creating or decorating objects using needle
Nefertiti Bust
Ancient sculpture from Egypt
Neoclassicism
Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
Neo-romanticism
Movements from the era of Romanticism
Nighthawks (Hopper)
1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper
No. 5, 1948
Painting by Jackson Pollock
No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)
Painting by Mark Rothko
Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket
1875 painting by James Abbott McNeil Whistler
Non-Violence (sculpture)
Sculpture series by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
Nu couché
Painting by Amedeo Modigliani
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Painting by Marcel Duchamp
Obelisk
Tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top
Oil painting
Process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil
Olmec colossal heads
Stone representations of human heads from the Olmec civilization
Olympia (Manet)
Painting by Édouard Manet
Op art
Art movement
Ophelia (painting)
Painting by John Everett Millais
Optical illusion
Visually perceived images that differ from objective reality
Origami
Traditional Japanese art of paper folding
Ottonian art
Art style in Germany under the Ottonian emperors
Outsider art
Art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
Painting
Practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface
Pale Blue Dot
Photograph of planet Earth by Voyager 1 from about 6 billion kilometers away
Panoramic painting
Massive artwork that reveals a wide, all-encompassing view of a particular subject
Paper craft
Making of artistic works entirely or primarily of paper
Papier-mâché
Paper-based construction material
Parade de cirque
Painting by Georges Seurat
Paris Street; Rainy Day
1877 painting by Gustave Caillebotte
Partners (statue)
Bronze statue from the Walt Disney company
Penmanship
Technique of writing with the hand
Pepper No. 30
Photograph by Edward Weston
Persian art
Persian miniature
Small Persian painting on paper
Perspective (graphical)
Form of graphical projection where the projection lines converge to one or more points
Petroglyph
Images carved on a rock surface as a form of rock art
Photorealism
Art genre and movement
Pietà (Michelangelo)
Sculpture by Michelangelo
Pillars of Creation
Astrophotograph by the Hubble Space Telescope
Pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Piss Christ
Controversial photograph by Andres Serrano
Pointillism
Technique of painting with small, distinct dots
Pollice Verso (Gérôme)
1872 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Pop art
Art movement emerging in the mid 1950s
Portrait
Artistic representation of one or more persons
Portrait miniature
Very small painting
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Painting by Gustav Klimt
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)
Large acrylic painting by David Hockney
Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Series of two paintings by Vincent van Gogh
Portrait of Juan de Pareja
Painting by Diego Velázquez
Portrait of Madame X
Painting by John Singer Sargent
Post-Impressionism
Predominantly French art movement, 1886–1905
Postmodern art
Art movement
Postmodernism
A broad movement in the mid-to-late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism
Pre-Columbian art
Art of the Pre-Columbian civilizations
Prehistoric art
Art produced in preliterate cultures
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848
Primavera (Botticelli)
Painting by Sandro Botticelli
Printmaking
Process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper
Product design
Process that leads to new products
Rabbit (Koons)
Sculpture by Jeff Koons
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
1945 photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Iconic photograph taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II
Raster graphics
Dot matrix data structure
Realism (arts)
Artistic style of representing subjects realistically
Red Hands Cave
Australian Aboriginal rock art site
Relativity (M. C. Escher)
Print by M. C. Escher
RelieF
Television series
Religious art
Art that is religious in theme
Renaissance art
Visual arts produced during the European Renaissance
Retro style
Style that is consciously derivative or imitative of trends, music, modes, fashions, or attitudes of the past
Rhein II
1999 photography of the Rhine river by Andreas Gursky
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier
Painting by Paul Cézanne
Robert E. Lee Monument (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Sculpture in Charlottesville, Virginia
Rock art
Human-made markings on natural stone
Rococo
18th-century artistic movement and style
Roman art
Arts made in Ancient Rome in the territories of Rome
Romanesque art
Artistic style of Europe from 1000 AD to the 13c
Romanticism
Period of artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in late 18th-century Europe
Ruby slippers
Magical pair of shoes worn by Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz
Salvator Mundi (Leonardo)
Painting attributed in whole or part to Leonardo da Vinci
Sand art and play
Moulding and sculpting shapes out of moist sand
Sandpainting
Form of art creation
Sarcophagus
Box-like funeral receptacle
Saturn Devouring His Son
Painting by Francisco Goya
Sculpture
Artworks that are three-dimensional objects
Scytho-Siberian art
Art of the Scythians
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
Painting by Frida Kahlo
Self-portraits by Rembrandt
Service design
Type of design
Seven Easy Pieces
Series of performances given by artist Marina Abramović in New York City at the Guggenheim Museum in November 2005
Shroud of Turin
Cloth bearing the alleged image of Jesus
Sibelius Monument
Sculpture and memorial in Helsinki, created 1967 by Eila Hiltunen
Silhouette
Appearance and art form with only outline visible
Sistine Chapel
Chapel in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
Sistine Chapel ceiling
Display of Renaissance art in Vatican City
Slave Ship
Topics referred to by the same term
Sleeping Hermaphroditus
Ancient marble sculpture, modified by Gianlorenzo Bernini
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Social realism
Art showing conditions of the working class
Spirit of the Dead Watching
1892 painting by Paul Gauguin
Stained glass
Coloured glass and the works that are made from it
Statue
Sculpture primarily concerned as a representational figure
Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial)
Statue of Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Statue of Freedom
19th-century statue by Thomas Crawford on top of the US Capitol
Statue of George Washington (Houdon)
Statue of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon
Statue of Peace
Memorial statue in Seoul, South Korea
Steampunk
Science fiction genre inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery
Still life
Type of painting
Stone carving
The act of shaping stone materials
Stoneware
Term for pottery or other ceramics fired at a relatively high temperature
Street art
Art that is public and temporary in public spaces
Style (visual arts)
Visual appearance of a creative work, shared with other works of the same movement or school
Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)
Series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh
Suprematism
Early 20th-century art movement
Surrealism
International cultural movement (1920s–1950s)
Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl
Painting by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Systems design
Organizing components structures and behaviors for any simple to complex system
Tang dynasty art
Art of the Tang dynasty
Taxidermy
Stuffing and mounting dead animals for display
Terracotta
Clay-based earthenware used for sculpture
Terracotta Army
Collection of ancient Chinese military statues
Text comics
Oldest form of comics, where the stories are told in captions below the images
Textile arts
Arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects
The Ambassadors (Holbein)
1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Painting by Rembrandt von Rijn
The Art of Painting
Painting by Johannes Vermeer
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Photography collection
The Barque of Dante
Painting by Eugène Delacroix
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (Caravaggio)
Painting by Caravaggio
The Big Buddha (Hong Kong)
The second largest outdoor bronze Buddha in the world
The Birth of Venus
Painting by Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau)
Painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Blue Boy
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough
The Blue Marble
Photograph of Earth taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 mission
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
Artwork by Marcel Duchamp
The Bronco Buster
Sculpture by Frederic Remington
The Burghers of Calais
Depicts group of 6 burghers walking out wearing nooses around their necks, and carrying the keys to the city and castle (after England captured Calais). One of 12 original castings of Auguste Rodin sculpture.
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
Painting by El Greco
The Calling of St Matthew (Caravaggio)
Painting by Caravaggio
The Card Players
Painting series by Paul Cézanne
The Climax (illustration)
Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley
The Creation of Adam
Painting by Michelangelo
The Death of Marat
Painting by Jacques-Louis David
The Death of Socrates
Painting by Jacques-Louis David
The Dinner Party
Installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife
1814 woodcut design by Japanese artist Hokusai
The Elephant Celebes
Painting by Max Ernst
The Elevation of the Cross (Rubens)
Triptych by Peter Paul Rubens in Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp
The Falling Man
Iconic photograph from 9/11
The Falling Soldier
Photograph by Robert Capa
The Farm (Miró)
Oil painting made by Joan Miró
The Feast of the Gods
Painting by Giovanni Bellini
The Fighting Temeraire
Painting by J. M. W. Turner
The Four Seasons (Poussin)
Series of four paintings by Nicolas Poussin
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Medieval triptych painting by Hieronymus Bosch
The Gleaners
Painting by Jean-François Millet
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Woodblock print by Hokusai
The Gross Clinic
Painting by Thomas Eakins
The Hay Wain
Painting by John Constable
The Horse in Motion
1878 photographs by Eadweard Muybridge
The Hunters in the Snow
Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Kiss (Hayez)
1859 painting by Francesco Hayez
The Kiss (Klimt)
Painting by Gustav Klimt
The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)
Marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin
The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)
Fresco by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel
The Last Supper (Leonardo)
Mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1495–1498
The Little Mermaid (statue)
Sculpture by Edvard Eriksen
The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl
Painting by Frida Kahlo
The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The Massacre at Chios
Painting by Eugène Delacroix
The Mature Age
Sculpture by Camille Claudel
The Motherland Calls
Volgograd monumental sculpture
The Musicians (Caravaggio)
Painting by Caravaggio
The Night Watch
1642 painting by Rembrandt
The Ninth Wave
1850 painting by Ivan Aïvazovsky
The Peacock Room
Interior decorated by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll
The Persistence of Memory
Painting by Salvador Dalí
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Artwork by Damien Hirst
The Pond—Moonlight
Photograph by Edward Steichen
The Potato Eaters
Painting by Vincent van Gogh
The Problem We All Live With
Painting by Norman Rockwell
The Raft of the Medusa
1818–1819 painting by Théodore Géricault
The Rape of Proserpina
Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
The Return of the Prodigal Son (Rembrandt)
Painting by Rembrandt
The School of Athens
Fresco in the Vatican made by Raphael between 1509 and 1511
The Scream
Image by artist Edvard Munch
The Sleeping Gypsy
1897 oil painting by Henri Rousseau
The Son of Man
Painting by René Magritte
The Sphere
Fritz Koenig sculpture damaged in September 11, 2001, terror attacks
The Starry Night
1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh
The Steerage
Photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
Stolen painting by Rembrandt
The Swing (Fragonard)
Oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (c.1767)
The Thinker
Sculpture by Auguste Rodin
The Third of May 1808
1814 painting by Francisco de Goya commemorating Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies
The Tower of Babel (Bruegel)
Three paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Treachery of Images
Painting by René Magritte
The Tribute Money (Masaccio)
Fresco by the Italian painter Masaccio
The Turkish Bath
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The Vulture and the Little Girl
Photograph by Kevin Carter
The Weeping Woman
Oil painting by Pablo Picasso
The Wounded Deer
Painting by Frida Kahlo
Thriller jacket
Jacket worn by Michael Jackson in the Thriller music video
Tiger in a Tropical Storm
Painting by Henri Rousseau
Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony
Triptych by Hieronymus Bosch, Lisbon
Twittering Machine
Painting by Paul Klee
Typography
Art of arranging type
Ukiyo-e
Genre of Japanese art
User experience design
Field of design focusing on the creation of user-centered products and websites
User interface design
Planned operator–machine interaction
Vector graphics
Computer graphics images defined by points, lines and curves
Veiled Christ
Sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino
Venus Callipyge
Type of antique Venus
Venus de' Medici
Sculpture by Cleomenes the Athenian
Venus de Milo
Ancient Greek marble statue of a woman
Venus figurine
Prehistoric statuettes depicting women
Venus of Willendorf
Austrian Venus figurine
Victoria Memorial, London
Memorial to Queen Victoria in London, England, UK
Video art
Art form using electronic moving image technology
View from the Window at Le Gras
Oldest surviving camera photograph
View of Toledo
Painting by El Greco
Viking art
Term for art of Scandinavia and Viking settlements of 8th-11th centuries CE
Virgin of the Rocks
Two paintings by Leonardo da Vinci
Visual arts
Art forms involving visual perception
Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Art created by Indigenous peoples from the Americas
Vitruvian Man
Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490
V-J Day in Times Square
Photograph
Wait for Me, Daddy
Photograph
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich
Warsaw Ghetto boy
1943 photograph of the Warsaw Ghetto
Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings)
1851 painting by Emanuel Leutze
Water Lilies (Monet series)
Series of paintings by Claude Monet
Watercolor painting
Type of painting method using water-based solutions
We Can Do It!
American World War II wartime poster
Web design
Creation and maintenance of websites
Webcomic
Comics published online
Wedding dress of Grace Kelly
Dress worn by Grace Kelly at her wedding to Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956
Wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer
Dress worn by Lady Diana Spencer at her wedding to Prince Charles in 1981
Whaam!
1963 pop art painting by American artist Roy Lichtenstein
Whakairo
Traditional Māori form of art carving
Wheat Fields
Series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh
When Will You Marry?
Painting by Paul Gauguin
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Painting by Paul Gauguin
Whistler's Mother
Painting by James McNeill Whistler
White bikini of Ursula Andress
Bathing suit worn by Ursula Andress in the 1962 James Bond film, Dr. No
White dress of Marilyn Monroe
Dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch
Wood carving
Form of working wood by means of a cutting tool
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
1937 sculpture by Vera Mukhina
Zoetrope
Pre-cinema animation device