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Syd Mead
Syd Mead (1933–2019), American industrial designer and 'visual futurist' who coined the credit on Blade Runner; Art Center graduate, U.S. Steel illustrator, and concept artist for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Tron, Aliens, and Blade Runner 2049.
Sydney Kumalo
Sydney Kumalo, full name Sydney Alex Kumalo, was a South African sculptor and painter (1935 to 1988) whose cast bronze figures fused African and European modernist forms.
Sylvester Mubayi
Sylvester Mubayi (1942–2022) was a Zimbabwean Shona stone sculptor who began at the Tengenenge community and won international acclaim, including the 1969 Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Award.
Sylvester Shchedrin
Sylvester Feodosievich Shchedrin (Сильвестр Щедрин) was a Russian landscape painter, 1791–1830, who spent his mature career in Italy, painting views of Rome and Naples directly from nature and influencing the Neapolitan Posillipo school.
Sylvia Plachy
Sylvia Plachy, Hungarian-born American photographer (born 1943, Budapest), Village Voice staff photographer and creator of the captionless weekly column Unguided Tour; Guggenheim fellow, author of Self Portrait with Cows Going Home, mother of Adrien Brody.
Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl
Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl is an 1861–1863 oil painting by James McNeill Whistler, modeled on Joanna Hiffernan and held at the National Gallery of Art.
Synchromism
Synchromism was a short-lived early twentieth-century movement in abstract painting founded by American artists Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright in Paris, in which color alone generated form and movement.
Synthetism
Synthetism is a Post-Impressionist painting style developed at Pont-Aven, Brittany, around 1888 by Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard, marked by flat, unmodeled color, strong outlines, and painting from memory rather than from life.
Szczerbiec
Szczerbiec ("the notched sword") is the coronation sword of Polish kings, the only surviving piece of the Polish regalia, used at coronations from 1320 to 1764 and kept in the Crown Treasury at Wawel Castle, Kraków.
Szentendre artists' colony
The Szentendre artists' colony (Szentendrei művésztelep) is a painters' community founded in 1926 in Szentendre, Hungary, continuing the Nagybánya school tradition after World War I.
T-shaped Silk Banner from Mawangdui Tomb 1
The T-shaped Silk Banner from Mawangdui Tomb 1 (feiyi 非衣) is an early Western Han painted silk funeral banner excavated in 1972 at Changsha, Hunan.
T. C. Cannon
T. C. Cannon, the professional name of Tommy Wayne Cannon (1946–1978), was a Kiowa painter, poet, and songwriter who fused Pop art with Native subjects and died at 31.
T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, full name Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, was an English bookbinder and printer who founded the Doves Bindery and the Doves Press in Hammersmith.
Tabitha Soren
Tabitha Soren (born 1967, San Antonio, Texas) is an American fine-art photographer and former MTV News journalist known for the series Fantasy Life, Running, Surface Tension, Relief, and Motherload, with work in 24 public collections including the National Gallery of Art and the Getty.
Tabriz carpet
A Tabriz carpet is a hand-knotted carpet woven in or attributed to the workshops of Tabriz, one of Iran's oldest rug-weaving centers, from Safavid times to today.
Tabriz school of painting
The Tabriz school of painting is a Persian miniature tradition centered on Tabriz, Iran, active from the late 13th century and peaking in the 16th century.
Tachibana no Hayanari
Tachibana no Hayanari (橘逸勢, died 842) was a Japanese court official and calligrapher counted among the Three Brushes of the early 800s, exiled and dead on the road after the Jōwa Incident of 842.
Tachisme
Tachisme (Tachism), from French tache (stain), was a French abstract painting style of the late 1940s-1950s within Art Informel: spontaneous stains, drips, and calligraphic marks, the European counterpart to Abstract Expressionism, led by Hartung, Wols, and Mathieu.
Taddeo Gaddi
Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1300 – 1366) was a Florentine painter and godson of Giotto, known for the frescoes of the Baroncelli Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence.
Tadeusz Kantor
Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) was a Polish painter, set designer, and avant-garde theater director based in Kraków, known for the Theatre of Death and Dead Class.
Tagline
Tagline (also strapline): a short, memorable advertising phrase identifying a brand or product, distinct from campaign slogans and mottos; examples include Nike's "Just Do It" and Tesco's "Every Little Helps".
Taima Mandala
The Taima Mandala (当麻曼荼羅) is a Japanese pictorial representation of Amitābha's Western Pure Land based on the Contemplation Sutra, named after Taimadera, the Nara temple preserving its 8th-century tapestry original.
Tairona goldwork
Tairona goldwork is the pre-Hispanic gold and tumbaga metalwork of the Tairona culture of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, made from about 200 to 1600 CE.
Takamura Kōtarō
Takamura Kōtarō (高村光太郎, 1883–1956) was a Japanese sculptor and poet, eldest son of the woodcarver Takamura Kōun, who introduced Rodin's ideas to Japan and wrote Dōtei and Chieko-sho.
Takamura Kōun
Takamura Kōun (高村光雲, 1852–1934) was a Japanese sculptor who combined traditional Buddhist wood carving with Western realism; his Old Monkey won a prize at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Takashi Murakami (村上隆)
Takashi Murakami (村上隆), Japanese contemporary artist born 1962 in Tokyo; creator of Superflat theory, Mr. DOB, and Kaikai Kiki; blends Nihonga training with anime and otaku culture; Versailles 2010, 500 Arhats.
Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦)
Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦), born 1967 in Kagoshima, is the Japanese manga artist of SLAM DUNK (over 100 million copies), Vagabond, and Real, founder of the Slam Dunk Scholarship, and director of the 2022 film THE FIRST SLAM DUNK.
Takeshi Obata (小畑 健)
Takeshi Obata (小畑 健), born 1969 in Niigata as Shigeru Hijikata, is a Japanese manga artist who draws in collaboration with writers: Hikaru no Go with Yumi Hotta, and Death Note, Bakuman., and Platinum End with Tsugumi Ohba.
Takeuchi Seihō
Takeuchi Seihō, real name Tsunekichi (竹内栖鳳, 1864–1942), was a Japanese nihonga painter of Kyoto who modernized Japanese-style painting, was paired with Yokoyama Taikan, and received the first Order of Culture in 1937.
Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre
Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre (相馬の古内裏, Sōma no furudairi) is a c. 1844 color woodblock triptych by Utagawa Kuniyoshi showing the sorceress Princess Takiyasha summoning a giant skeleton.