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Subject Matter

Abstract Landscape Adolescence Advertising and Brands African Diaspora Allegory Alter Egos and Avatars Americana Anatomy Animal Portrait Animals Anthropomorphism Antiquity as Subject Architecture's Effects Arrivals/Departures Artist as Ethnographer Atmospheric Landscapes Attenuated Figure Bars and Restaurants Bathers Bedrooms and Bathrooms Bible Story Body Parts Caricatures and Parody Celebrity Censorship Childhood Circus/Carnival City Scenes Cityscapes Cityscapes and City Scenes Classical Figure Classical Mythology Collective History Conflict Consumerism Contrapposto Crime Cross-Cultural Dialogue Crowds Cultural Commentary Decay Deep Time Deities and Holy Figures Delegated Art Diaristic Digital Culture Disaster Dreams / Altered States of Consciousness Engaged with Byzantine and Medieval Art Engaged with Communist Visual Culture Engaged with European Old Masters Engaged with Pre-Columbian Art Engaged with Traditional African Art Engaged with Traditional Chinese Art Engaged with Traditional Islamic Art Engaged with Traditional Japanese Art Engaged with Traditional Korean Art Engagement with Mass Media Equestrian Erotic Eye Contact Face Failure Family Femininity Fertility/Pregnancy/Birth Figure Studies Figure from the Back (Rückenfigur) Figures in Nature Figures of the Art World Flora Focus on the Social Margins Food Gender Glamour Globalization Grotesque Group Portrait Group of Objects Group of Portraits Haze Hugs and Kisses Human Figure Humor Hybrids and Imaginary Creatures Implied Narrative Improbable Physics Individual Portrait Industry Infographics and Diagrams Institutional Critique Interiors Interlaced Bodies Intersectionality Isolation/Alienation Kawaii Kitsch Landscape and Nature Photography Landscapes Landscapes and Waterscapes Language Leisure Light as Subject Line, Form, and Color Love Machines Madonna and Child Manga Maps/Networks Masculinity Math Medical/Health Migration Modes of Transportation Mortality Mourning and Commemoration Movement Mutated Bodies Mysticism, Shamanism, and the Occult Mythology and Religion Narrative Natural History Nature Nautical Nostalgia Nude Obsolescence Outer Space Parties and Celebrations People at Home Performing Arts Personal Histories Personal Writing Systems Personification Political Political Events Political Figures Portrait Portraits without a Face Provocative Psychoanalysis Racial and Ethnic Identity References to Art History Reflections Related to Fashion Related to Film Related to Games Related to Hip-Hop Related to Literature Related to Music Related to Punk Related to Religion Related to Toys Shadows Representations of Everyday Objects Royal/Court Commission Royalty and Aristocracy Rural Life Saints Scenes of Everyday Life Science Science Fiction Seduction and Courtship Self as Subject Self-Portrait Sex Sexual Identity Silhouettes Southern Gothic Spaces of the Art World Sports/Athletics Still Life Stolen Moments Suburbia Surveillance Symbolic Composition Talismanic Technology Text The Abject The Afterlife The American West The Art Market The Artist's Studio The Body The City The Domestic and Domesticity The Elements The Environment The Fantastic The Mundane The Seasons The Senses The Sublime Time Times of Day Traces, Indexes, and Implied Presence Trauma and Struggle Travel/Tourism Unsettling Urbanization Utopia Vacant and Vacated Spaces Violence Virtue and Vice Visual Perception War and Military Water Waterscapes Work and Workers Zoomorphism

Styles and Movements

"Bad Painting" '85 New Wave 19th Century American Art 19th Century American Paintings and Works on Paper 19th Century French Academy 19th Century German Realism 20th Century Art Abstract Art Abstract Expressionism Abstract Painting Abstract Photography Abstract Sculpture Abstract versus Figurative Art Abstraction-Création Action Painting Afrofuturism American Impressionism American Modernism American Prints 1880–1950 American Realism American Regionalism American Sculpture 1830–1950 American Tonalism American Works on Paper 1880–1950 Art Brut Art Deco Art Informel Art Nouveau Arte Povera Ashcan School Barbizon School Baroque Bauhaus Bay Area Figurative Art Beijing East Village Bengal School of Art Black Arts Movement Black Mountain College Body Art CalArts Capitalist Realism Chicago Imagists Chicano Art Cluj School CoBrA Colab Collaborations and Collectives Color Field Painting Conceptual Art Conceptual Art and Contemporary Conceptualism Concrete Art Constructivism Contemporary Academic Realism Contemporary Archaeological Contemporary Art Contemporary Asian Art Contemporary British Art Contemporary Canadian Art Contemporary Color Fields Contemporary Conceptualism Contemporary DIY Contemporary Fact versus Fiction Contemporary Fauvist Contemporary Faux Naïf Contemporary Feminist Contemporary Figurative Drawing Contemporary Figurative Painting Contemporary Gestural Abstraction Contemporary Glass Contemporary Gothic Contemporary Graphic Realism Contemporary Grotesque Contemporary Impressionist Contemporary Indian Art Contemporary Latin American Art Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Art Contemporary Minimalist Contemporary Modernist-Type Photography Contemporary Op Art Contemporary Participation Contemporary Portrait Painting Contemporary Re-creations Contemporary Realist Portrait Photography Contemporary Scandinavian Art Contemporary Surrealistic Contemporary Traces of Memory Contemporary Turkish Art Contemporary Use of Textiles Contemporary Vintage Photography Cubism Cynical Realism Dada Dansaekhwa Danube School Dau Al Set De Stijl Deconstructivism Deutscher Werkbund Die Brücke Documentary Film Documentary Travel Photography Dusseldorf School of Photography Dutch and Flemish Early Computer Art Early Renaissance East Village Art Expressionism Fashion Photography Fauvism Faux Naïf Feminist Art Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist Figurative Art Figurative Painting Figurative Sculpture Fluxus Folk Art Funk Art Futurism Geometric Abstraction German Expressionism Gestural Abstraction Gothic Art Graffiti and Street Art Grand Manner Group Material Group Zero Group f/64 Gutai Happenings Harlem Renaissance Helsinki School of Photography High Renaissance Hudson River School Hyperrealism and Photorealism Iconic Works of Art History Identity Politics Impressionism Impressionism and Contemporary Impressionist Japanese Erotic Prints Japanese Photography Japonisme Kanō School Land Art Landscape Photography Light and Space Movement Luminism Mannerism Medieval Art Mexican Muralism Minimalism Minimalism and Contemporary Minimalist Modern Jewelry Modern Photography Modern and Impressionist Art Modern and Impressionist Prints Mono-ha Nabis Neo-Conceptualism Neo-Concrete Art Neo-Dada Neo-Expressionism Neo-Geo Neo-Impressionism Neo-Plasticism Neoclassicism Net Art Neue Sachlichkeit New American Color Photography New American Documentary Photography New British Sculpture New Leipzig School New Topographics New York School Nineteenth Century French Realism Northern Renaissance Nouveau Réalisme Nul Group Old Master Drawings and Prints Old Master Influenced Fantasy Old Masters Op Art Orientalism Orphism Pattern and Decoration Movement Pictorialism Pittura Metafisica Pointillism Political Minimalism Political Pop Pop Art Pop and Contemporary Pop Post-'70s Ego Generation Post-Impressionism Post-Internet Art Post-Painterly Abstraction Post-War American Art Post-War European Art Post-World War I European Classicism Post-World War II School of Paris Postminimalism Pre-Raphaelites Pre-World War II School of Paris Precisionism Process Art Progressive Artists' Movement Purism Relational Aesthetics Renaissance Art Rinpa School Rococo Art and Design Romanticism School of London Self-Taught, Folk, and Outsider Art Shin Hanga Social Action Social Realism Socialist Realism Soviet Nonconformist Art Spatialism Spiral Group Street Photography Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program Suprematism Surrealism Surrealistic Symbolism Synchromism The Aesthetic Movement The Anthropocene The Blue Rider The New Fauves The Pictures Generation The Stars Art Group (Xing Xing) Traditional Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Transavanguardia Ukiyo-e Venetian School Vienna Secession Viennese Actionism Washington Color School Works Progress Administration (WPA) Yale University School of Art Young British Artists (YBAs) Zaire School of Popular Painting

Design Movements

20th Century Furniture and Design American Furniture and Design American Mid-Century Design American Studio Craft Movement Art Deco Furniture and Design Art Nouveau Furniture and Design Arts and Crafts Movement Brazilian Furniture and Design British Furniture and Design Brutalism Contemporary Furniture and Design Danish Furniture and Design Dutch Furniture and Design French Furniture and Design International Style Italian Furniture and Design Memphis Design Mid-Century Modern Design Modern Design Modern and Contemporary Design Modern and Contemporary Fashion Design Post-War French Design Postmodern Architecture and Design Scandinavian Furniture and Design Union des Artistes Modernes Wiener Werkstätte

Visual Qualities

Abstract Illusionism Allover Composition Angular Arabesque/Scroll Asymmetrical Balance Biomorphic Black and White Blown-Off-Roof Perspective Blurred Bright and Vivid Colors Bulbous Calligraphic Color Gradient Columns and Totems Contour Line Cracked Creased Crinkled Wrinkled Crystalline and Geological Forms Curvilinear Forms Dark Colors Dense Composition Divisionist Dotted Dynamism Earth Tones Emphasis on Linear Perspective Extreme Angle Flatness Fractal-like / Kaleidoscopic Fragmented Geometry Geometric Glittery Grid Hard-Edged Highly Detailed Highly Ornamented Iridescence/Opalescence Irregular Curvilinear Forms Irregular Linear Forms Layered Images Linear Forms Marbleized Metallic Mimicking Ruined Materials Mirrored Molecular Mr Doodle: Pop Heart Collection Pastel Colors Patinated and Oxidized Patterns Piles/Stacks Pixelated Primary Abstraction Primary Colors Psychedelic Radiating Lines Raw versus Finished Rough Scattered Composition Sharp/Prickly Shiny/Glossy Single Object Slender Slumped/Draped Smooth Surface Sparse Stained Glass Effect Striped Symmetrical Tangled Forms Transparent/Translucent Medium Viscous Forms Woven/Perforated Wrapped

Medium and Techniques

Camera Obscura Album, Folio and Fan Formats Altarpiece Altered and Substituted Canvases Analogue Filmmaking Animation Appropriation Arabic/Farsi Calligraphy Archaeological Object Art That Plays With Scale Artist's Frame Artists’ Books Automatism Bentwood Black-and-White Photography Body Casts/Body Prints Books and Portfolios Burned/Charred Caravaggesque Carving Chance Chiaroscuro Cinematic Close-Up Collage Collecting and Modes of Display Color Photography Color Theory Comic/Cartoon Computer-Aided Manufacturing Copies and Emulations Cut/Ripped Dance Delicate Materials Densely Textured or Haptic Surface Design/Architecture Study Digital Art Digital Painting and Drawing Digital Print Digital as Manual Digitally Manipulated Divinatory Objects, Talismans, and Amulets Documentary Photography Drawing East Asian Calligraphy East Asian Ink-and-Wash Painting Embossed Paper En plein air Encaustic Endurance Art Ephemera Erased and Obscured Etching/Engraving Extruded Design Film/Video Focus on Materials Folded Planes Found Footage and Found Video Fresco Frontal Perspective Generative Art Gestural Glass and Ceramics Glitch Aesthetic Gold Leaf and Gilding Handscroll Hanging Scroll Hatching History Painting Hyperrealism Illustration Imitated Material Immersive Impasto Installation Art Intaglio Intentionally Exposed Canvas Interactive Intricately Sculpted Kinetic Sculpture Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Large-Scale Painting Large-Scale Photography Large-Scale Sculpture Light Art Lightbox Lithograph Long Distance and Deep Distance Long Exposure Mail Art Manipulated Photography Manuscript Maquette Mediated View Miniature and Small-Scale Paintings Mixed-Media Monochrome Painting Monotype/Monoprint Multiple Exposure Multiple Screens Multiple Styles Murals and Wall Drawings NFT Negative Image Oil Painting Oil on Copper Oil on Panel Open Form Organic Material Outdoor Art Painting Painting and Writing Tools Panorama Paper Cut-Outs Passage Pastel Performance Art Photogram Photograph as Material Photographic Source Photographs of Surfaces Photography Photojournalism Photomontage Photorealistic Picassoesque Polychrome Sculpture Poster Poured Printed Matter Prints Process-Oriented Projection Pulled, Scraped, and Scratched Recycled Reduced-Scale Architecture Relief Rembrandtesque Repetition Research as Art Restored and Repurposed Screen Format Sculptural Use of Paint Sculpture Sculpture-Based Photography Sfumato Shallow Depth of Field Silkscreen Site-Specific Art Snapshot Aesthetic Soft Sculpture Sound Art Splattered/Dripped Spray Paint Staged Photography Stains/Washes Study Suspended/Hanging Tempera Time-Lapse Photography and Film Tondo Topographic Photography Traditional Photographic Techniques Traditional Scroll Painting Transfer Trompe l’oeil Typography Typologies Use of Traditional Techniques Vintage Photo Prints Virtual and Augmented Reality Wall Sculpture and Installation Watercolor Website Woodcut and Linocut Work on Paper

Time Periods

1000 - 1400 CE Art 15th Century Art 16th Century Art 17th Century Art 18th Century Art 1900 - 1917 Art 1918 - 1939 (Interwar) Art 1940s-1950s Art 19th Century Art 21st Century Art 500 - 1000 CE Art Ancient Art Art of the 1960s Art of the 1970s Art of the 1980s Art of the 1990s Contemporary Impressionist and Modern Hub Late 19th Century Art Modern Post-War Hub Pre-20th Century Art Prehistoric Art

Geographic Regions

African Art American Art Andes Region Art Angolan Art Art of Latin America and the Caribbean Asian Art Australian and New Zealand Art Austrian Art Beijing Artists Belgian Art Berlin Artists Brazilian Art British and Irish Art Brooklyn Artists California Art Canadian Art Caribbean Art Caucasus Art Central American Art Central Asian Art Chinese Art Cuban Art Dutch Art East African Art East European Art East German Art Eastern Mediterranean Egyptian Art Flanders and Luxembourg French Art French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname German Art Greek Art Hong Kong Artists Indian Art Iranian Art Iraqi Art Israeli Art Italian Art Japanese Art Korean Art Latin American Art Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine London Artists Los Angeles Artists Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian Art Mexican Art Middle African Art Middle Eastern and North African Art New York Artists North African Art Pakistani Art Paris Artists Portugese Art Russian Art San Francisco Artists Scandinavian Art South African Art South Asian Art Southeast Asian Art Southeast European Art Southern Cone Art Spanish Art Swiss Art Taiwanese Art Tibetan Art Tokyo Artists Turkish Art West African Art

Materials

Aluminum Assemblage Bone Brass Bronze Cardboard Ceramic Chalk Chrome-Plated Concrete Enamel Found Objects Gemstone Glass as Material Gold Inlay Ivory Leather/Hide Marble Metal Mosaics Natural Fibers Neon and Fluorescent Light Plaster Plastic Porcelain Resin Silver Stained Glass Steel Stone Taxidermy Terracotta Use of Common Materials Use of Ephemeral Materials Use of Paper Use of Precious Materials Use of Vintage Imagery Wood

Design Concepts and Techniques

CAD (Computer Aided Design) Children's Furniture and Design Design by Architects Design by Artists Engineering/Construction and Design Focus on Joints/Connections Handcrafted Furniture and Design Iconic Works of Design Industrial and Product Design Jewelry by Painters and Sculptors Masonry Construction Modular Design Non-Functional Design Reinforced Concrete Construction Religious Building Restrained Forms Steel/Iron Frame Construction Sustainable Design Timber Frame Construction Whimsical Design Women Designers

Cultural and Religious Styles

Aboriginal Art Ancient Egypt Art of Burma Art of Tonga Art of the Congo Art of the Ivory Coast Art of the Upper Paleolithic Asante Art Aztec Art Bamileke Art Benin Art Buddhist Art and Architecture Byzantine Art Cambodian Art Celtic Art Cheyenne Art Christian Art and Architecture Early Medieval Art Eastern Zhou Dynasty Edo Art Etruscan Art Greek Art and Architecture Greek and Roman Art and Architecture Guatemalan Art Han Dynasty Heian Period Hellenistic Art Himalayan Art Hindu Art and Architecture Hopi Art Iban Art Igbo (Ibo) Art Indonesian Art Islamic Art and Architecture Kushan Empire Maranao Art Mayan Art and Architecture Mbole Art Meiji Art Mende Art Mesopotamian Art Ming Dynasty Minoan Art Moche Art Mughal Art Mycenaean Art Native American, First Nations, and Alaska Native Art Northern and Southern Dynasties Oku Art Ottoman Art Papua New Guinea Art Phoenician Art Pre-Columbian Art Qing Dynasty Roman Art and Architecture Romanesque Art Shang Dynasty Song Dynasty Sui Dynasty Tang Dynasty Thai Art Traditional African Art Traditional Oceanic Art Western Zhou Dynasty Yaka Art Yombe Art Yoruba Art Yuan Dynasty Yup'ik Art

Furniture and Lighting

Armchair Bed Bench Ceiling Light Chair Chaise Lounge Chandelier Coffee Table Console Desk Dining Table Floor Lamp Furniture Lighting Mirror Sconce Seating Shelving Side Chair Side Table Sideboard Sofa Stool Storage Table Table Lamp Upholstered Furniture

Textiles

Embroidery Knitted and Crocheted Rug Tapestry and Wall Hanging Textile Arts Use of Fabric

Jewelry and Fashion Object Types

Bracelets Brooches Costume Accessory Earrings Necklaces Rings Watches

Tableware, Vessels, and Objects

Artist Merchandise and Multiples Autograph Blanket Bowl Clock Container Door Exhibition Poster Figurine Flatware Frame Glass Objects Household Objects Keychain Letter Objets de Vertu Plate Postcard Skateboard Tableware Tool Towel Toy Tray Vase Vessel Wallpaper

Antiquities, Artifacts, and Religious Objects

Arms and Armor Ceremonial Object Funerary/Commemorative Object Mask Musical Instrument Reliquary Tablet/Stele

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Grafmonument met alliantiewapen en vier kwartierwapens

Mourner from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria

Memorial Anniversary (Shunen), from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"

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