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Takuma Nakahira
Takuma Nakahira (中平卓馬, 1938–2015) was a Japanese photographer and critic who co-founded the magazine Provoke in 1968 and shaped the are-bure-boke style of blurred, grainy images.
Tales to Astonish
Tales to Astonish was a Marvel Comics anthology series running 101 issues from 1959 to 1968, beginning as a monster anthology and ending as a Hulk and Sub-Mariner split book.
Taller de Gráfica Popular
The Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP; Workshop of Popular Graphic Art) is a Mexican printmaking collective founded in Mexico City in 1937 by Leopoldo Méndez, Luis Arenal, and Pablo O'Higgins.
Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (Tamara Łempicka), born Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Górska, was a Polish-born Art Deco painter known as the "Baroness with a Brush", celebrated for sleek, stylized portraits and nudes of 1920s Paris high society.
Tamonten of Tōdai-ji
Tamonten (多聞天), also read Tamon-ten, is the northern guardian king of the Four Heavenly Kings, venerated alone as Bishamonten, whose statues at Tōdai-ji in Nara include a Nara-period National Treasure.
Tanagra figurines
Tanagra figurines are mold-made Greek terracotta statuettes, produced from the late fourth century BC and named after the Boeotian town of Tanagra where many were found.
Tang dynasty Buddhist sculpture
Tang dynasty Buddhist sculpture (唐代佛教造像) is the Buddhist statuary made in China from 618 to 907, widely regarded as the high point of Chinese Buddhist art.
Tang dynasty gongbi figure painting
Tang dynasty gongbi figure painting (唐代工笔人物画) is the meticulous-brush mode of Chinese figure painting that matured under the Tang dynasty, with fine outlines built up in layered ink and color.
Tang dynasty tomb figures
Tang dynasty tomb figures (唐俑) are ceramic human and animal sculptures placed in Tang burials (618–907) as mingqi, with glazed examples known as Tang sancai.
Tang tomb murals
Tang tomb murals (唐代墓室壁画) are painted wall decorations inside tombs of the Tang dynasty (618–907), chiefly in imperial and high-official tombs near Chang'an, depicting guards, hunts, polo, and palace ladies.
Tangut Buddhist art
Tangut Buddhist art is the Buddhist painting, sculpture, and printed art of the Tangut-ruled Western Xia state (1038–1227) in northwestern China, fusing Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Indian elements, best known from Khara-Khoto and the Dunhuang caves.
Tani Bunchō
Tani Bunchō (谷文晁, 1763–1840) was a Japanese painter of the late Edo period who worked in Edo and is regarded as the leading figure of Kanto literati painting.
Taohuawu woodblock New Year prints
Taohuawu woodblock New Year prints (桃花坞木版年画), also called Gusu or Suzhou prints, are polychrome New Year pictures from Suzhou that peaked under the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors.
Taos art colony
The Taos art colony is a community of painters in Taos, New Mexico, begun in 1898 when Ernest L. Blumenschein and Bert Phillips stayed after a broken wagon wheel.
Tapio Wirkkala
Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985) was a Finnish designer and sculptor, best known for glassware for Iittala, including the Ultima Thule series inspired by melting Lapland ice.
Tara Brooch
The Tara Brooch is a silver-gilt, pseudo-penannular brooch of the late 7th or early 8th century, found at Bettystown, County Meath, in 1850 and displayed in Dublin since 1890.
Target with Four Faces
Target with Four Faces is a 1955 mixed-media assemblage by Jasper Johns: a blue-and-yellow target painted in encaustic, surmounted by four plaster casts of a face in a wooden box.
Tarnovo Artistic School
The Tarnovo Artistic School (Търновска художествена школа) was the medieval Bulgarian school of painting and church art centered in Tarnovo, active mainly in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Tarsila do Amaral
Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973) was a Brazilian painter and a founding figure of Brazilian modernism, blending European avant-garde lessons with Brazilian subjects; her 1928 painting Abaporu inspired the Anthropophagy movement.
Tartan Ribbon
Tartan Ribbon is an 1861 photograph of a striped Scottish ribbon bow, generally described as the world's first durable color photograph, demonstrated by James Clerk Maxwell in London.
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon, born in New York in 1975, is an American multidisciplinary artist whose research-driven photography documents hidden systems, from wrongly convicted prisoners to seized customs goods.
Tassili n'Ajjer rock art
The Tassili n'Ajjer rock art is a body of over 15,000 prehistoric paintings and engravings on a sandstone plateau in south-east Algeria, spanning about 10,000 years of Sahara life.
Tasya van Ree
Tasya van Ree, American artist and photographer of Japanese-Dutch heritage from Hawaii, known for monochrome portraits of Michelle Rodriguez and Amber Heard, the 2014 Chateau Marmont show, and a Stetson 150th-anniversary hat collaboration.
Tattoo
Tattoo: permanent ink deposited 1.5-2 mm into the dermis by needles puncturing the skin about 100 times per second; from Tahitian tattau; oldest example Otzi (5,300 years). Temporary forms include decals, henna, jagua.
Tau tau
Tau tau are carved wooden effigies made by the Toraja people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, representing the dead and standing on burial cliffs as guardians of the tomb.
Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Tawaraya Sōtatsu (俵屋宗達) was a Japanese painter active in Kyoto from around 1600 into the 1630s, regarded as the founder of the Rinpa style of decorative painting.
Tazza Farnese
The Tazza Farnese is a large Hellenistic cameo bowl carved from a single piece of sardonyx agate, attributed to Alexandria, now in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
Teal
Teal is a blue-green tertiary color of equal parts blue and green, named for the stripe on the teal duck's head and used in design since the 1700s.
Team Fortress Comics
Team Fortress Comics are Valve's official webcomics for Team Fortress 2: update comics from 2009 and a seven-issue main series (2013-2024) written mainly by Jay Pinkerton, set in alternate 1972 around Mann Co. and its stolen Australium.
Technical drawing
Technical drawing, or engineering drawing, is a standardized graphical language for conveying how objects are built or function. Covers ISO 128 and ASME Y14 standards, dimensioning, GD&T, history from Gudea and Monge to CAD.