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Mysore painting
Mysore painting is a classical South Indian school of painting from Mysore in Karnataka, known for delicate figure drawing and gesso work covered with pure gold leaf.
N. C. Wyeth
N. C. Wyeth (Newell Convers Wyeth, 1882–1945) was an American illustrator and painter, famed for Scribner's Illustrated Classics such as Treasure Island and father of Andrew Wyeth.
N. S. Bendre
N. S. Bendre (Narayan Shridhar Bendre, 1910–1992) was an Indian painter who founded the Baroda Group and won the National Award for his cubist painting Thorn.
Nabeshima ware
Nabeshima ware (鍋島焼) is Japanese porcelain made at the Saga domain's official kiln, produced as presentation gifts for the Tokugawa shogunate rather than for sale.
Nabu (DC Comics)
Nabu the Wise, DC Comics Lord of Order created by Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman (More Fun Comics #67, 1941), whose spirit in the Helmet of Fate possesses wearers, turning them into Doctor Fate, notably Kent Nelson.
Nadar's studio
Nadar's studio, the Atelier Nadar, was the Paris photographic portrait studio founded by Félix Nadar in the 1850s and run by three generations of his family until 1939.
Nadežda Petrović
Nadežda Petrović (Надежда Петровић, 1873–1915) was a Serbian painter regarded as the leading Serbian painter of her time and a founder of modern Serbian painting.
Nadia Chomyn
Nadia Chomyn (24 October 1967 – 28 October 2015), born in Nottingham, British autistic savant artist known for realistic memory drawings of horses and roosters; subject of Lorna Selfe's 1977 case study.
Nagano (illustrator)
Nagano (ナガノ), born 1988, is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist, creator of Chiikawa (なんか小さくてかわいいやつ) and Nagano's Bear; LINE sticker origins, Kodansha publication, 2022 TV anime, 2024 Noma award. Distinct from Nagano Noriko and photographer Nagano Shigeichi.
Nagara Style
Nagara style: the North Indian Hindu temple architecture tradition, defined by a curvilinear shikhara over the garbhagriha, amalaka and kalasha crowns, no gopuram; Gupta origins, Odisha, Khajuraho, and Solanki schools.
Nagasaki mushroom cloud
The Nagasaki mushroom cloud is the column of smoke that rose over Nagasaki, Japan, after the United States detonated the "Fat Man" atomic bomb on August 9, 1945.
Naïve art
Naïve art: self-taught painting outside academic training, marked by bright color and flattened perspective; archetypal figure Henri Rousseau (Le Douanier); distinct from folk, outsider, and art brut categories.
Nakamura Fusetsu
Nakamura Fusetsu (中村不折; 1866–1943), real name Sekitarō, was a Japanese Western-style painter and calligrapher who founded the Calligraphy Museum in Tokyo's Negishi district in 1936 to house his collection of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy.
Nakkaş Osman
Nakkaş Osman was an Ottoman court painter who directed the imperial painting atelier under Murad III (1574–1595), credited with miniatures of the Şemâilnâme, Şehinşahnâme, and Hünernâme chronicles.
Nalini Malani
Nalini Malani (born 1946) is an Indian contemporary artist based in Mumbai, a pioneer of video art in India whose installations and shadow plays give voice to women and those marginalized by history.
Nam June Paik (백남준)
Nam June Paik (백남준), 1932–2006, Korean-born American Fluxus artist called the father of video art; built the Paik-Abe video synthesizer, made Global Groove and TV Buddha, and broadcast satellite art worldwide.
Nam Sơn
Nam Sơn, real name Nguyễn Vạn Thọ (1890–1973), was a Vietnamese painter who co-founded the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi with Victor Tardieu in 1924.
Namikawa Yasuyuki
Namikawa Yasuyuki (並河靖之, 1845–1927) was a Japanese cloisonné artist in Kyoto known for fine gold and silver wirework on translucent black enamel, appointed an Imperial Craftsman in 1896.
Namikawa Yasuyuki workshop
The Namikawa Yasuyuki workshop, the Kyoto Higashiyama residence and studio where cloisonné artist Namikawa Yasuyuki ran his wired-cloisonné business, is now the Namikawa Cloisonné Museum of Kyoto.
Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin, born Nancy Goldin in 1953 in Washington, D.C., is an American photographer known for her diaristic slideshows, especially The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
Nanban byōbu
Nanban byōbu (南蛮屏風) are Japanese folding screens, usually six-panel pairs, showing Portuguese traders, their ships, missionaries, and trade goods, popular from the late 16th century with more than 90 surviving.
Nancy (comic strip)
Nancy is an American comic strip about a mischievous eight-year-old girl with a red hair bow, her Aunt Fritzi, and best friend Sluggo, running since 1922.
Nancy Graves
Nancy Graves (1939 or 1940 – 1995) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and filmmaker known for life-size camel sculptures that made her famous at the Whitney Museum in 1969.
Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero (1926–2009) was an American feminist artist who worked on paper, combining printed female figures with text to confront war, torture, and women's exclusion from art.
Nandalal Bose (নন্দলাল বসু)
Nandalal Bose (নন্দলাল বসু), 1882–1966, Bengal School painter and principal of Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan; creator of the 1938 Haripura posters, the Dandi March linocut, and the 22 illustrations of India's Constitution.
Nanga
Nanga (南画, "Southern painting"), often used synonymously with bunjinga, is a Japanese school of painting inspired by Chinese literati painting that flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries, led by Ike Taiga and Yosa Buson.
Naoki Urasawa (浦沢直樹)
Naoki Urasawa (浦沢直樹), born 1960 in Tokyo, is a Japanese manga artist, creator of Yawara!, Monster, 20th Century Boys, Pluto, Billy Bat, and Asadora!, with over 140 million copies sold and multiple Tezuka, Shogakukan, Angoulême, and Eisner awards.
Naoko Takeuchi (武内直子)
Naoko Takeuchi (武内直子), born 1967 in Kofu, Japan, is the manga artist behind Sailor Moon and Codename: Sailor V; a former pharmacist, Kodansha Manga Award winner, and wife of Yoshihiro Togashi.
Naoto Fukasawa
Naoto Fukasawa (深澤直人), born in 1956, is a Japanese product designer known for the MUJI wall-mounted CD player and designs based on unconscious everyday behavior.
Napoleon Abueva
Napoleon "Billy" Veloso Abueva was a Filipino sculptor from Bohol who became the youngest National Artist in 1976 and is called the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture.