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Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse (英名二十八衆句)
Eimei nijūhasshūku (英名二十八衆句), Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse, an 1866–1867 series of 28 ōban muzan-e woodblock prints, 14 each by Yoshitoshi and Yoshiiku, published by Sanoya Tomigoro, depicting murders from kabuki and history.
Twin-lens reflex camera
A twin-lens reflex camera is a film camera with two stacked lenses, the upper one showing a waist-level focusing image; the Rolleiflex was its best-known example.
Twins Seven-Seven
Twins Seven-Seven, born Taiwo Olaniyi Oyewale-Toyeje Oyelale Osuntoki, was a Nigerian painter and musician of the Osogbo School whose densely patterned work drew on Yoruba mythology.
Two Bodhisattvas and Ten Great Disciples of Shakyamuni
Two Bodhisattvas and Ten Great Disciples of Shakyamuni (Nibosatsu Shaka Jūdaideshi) is a 1939 twelve-sheet woodblock print cycle by Shikō Munakata depicting the Buddha's ten disciples flanked by two bodhisattvas.
Two Wangs
The Two Wangs (Er Wang, 二王) are the Eastern Jin calligraphers Wang Xizhi (303–361) and his son Wang Xianzhi (344–386), founding masters of classical Chinese calligraphy.
Tyeb Mehta
Tyeb Mehta (1925–2009) was an Indian modernist painter of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, known for Kali, Mahishasura, and his diagonal division of the canvas.
Typeface
Typeface: the shared design of a set of letterforms, distinct from a font, the file or metal that renders it. Covers font-versus-typeface terminology, history from Gutenberg, serif legibility research, and OpenType variable fonts (2016).
Typography
Typography: design and arrangement of written text for reading, in print and on screens; also called type design. Spans Sumerian cuneiform, Gutenberg's movable type, and digital variable fonts, with legibility, readability, and WCAG accessibility criteria.
Typography of Apple Inc.
Typography of Apple Inc.: the company's typefaces, from Susan Kare's 1984 Macintosh city fonts (Chicago) through Apple Garamond and Myriad to the San Francisco system font family (SF Pro, SF Compact, SF Mono, New York, SF Arabic and other script extensions) introduced in 2015, with its restrictive developer licensing.
Tyrus Wong
Tyrus Wong (黄齐耀, 1910–2016), Chinese American painter and production illustrator whose Song dynasty–inspired sketches defined Disney's Bambi; later Warner Bros. sketch artist, Hallmark Christmas card designer, kite maker, and 2001 Disney Legend.
U Ba Nyan
U Ba Nyan (ဦးဘဉာဏ်; 1897–1945) was a Burmese painter born in Pantanaw who trained at the Royal College of Art in London and is regarded as a founder of modern painting in Myanmar.
U Thong style
U Thong style is a style of Buddha images made in central Thailand from the late twelfth to the fifteenth century, bridging Lopburi and early Ayutthaya art.
U.S. Acres
U.S. Acres (Orson's Farm outside the U.S., Orson's Place in Canada) is a Jim Davis comic strip about barnyard animals led by Orson Pig, launched March 3, 1986 in 505 newspapers and ended in 1989, later animated in Garfield and Friends.
U.S. Agent
U.S. Agent is a Marvel Comics superhero, John Walker, created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary, debuting as Super-Patriot in Captain America #323 (1986). He briefly served as Captain America before becoming U.S. Agent in Captain America #354 (1989), and appears in the MCU played by Wyatt Russell.
Ub Iwerks
Ub Iwerks (Ubbe Ert Iwwerks, 1901–1971), American animator who animated the first Mickey Mouse cartoons at 700 drawings a day, founded Iwerks Studios (Flip the Frog), and invented the multiplane camera, Xerox animation, and optical printing at Disney.
Ubud style painting
Ubud style painting is a school of modern Balinese painting that developed in Ubud, Bali, from the 1930s, blending the classical Kamasan tradition with Western perspective and shading.
Uche Okeke
Uche Okeke (1933–2016) was a Nigerian painter and founding member of the Zaria Art Society whose theory of Natural Synthesis revived the Igbo uli design tradition.
Uchigatana (打刀)
Uchigatana (打刀), the edge-up belt-worn Japanese sword of 2 shaku (60 cm) or more; emerged mid-Muromachi period for infantry fighting, replacing the tachi; today simply called katana.
Uemura Shōen
Uemura Shōen (上村松園, 1875–1949), real name Uemura Tsune, was a Kyoto nihonga painter of beautiful women and the first woman to receive the Order of Culture.
Ueno Hikoma
Ueno Hikoma (上野彦馬, 1838–1904) was a Japanese photographer who opened one of Japan's first commercial photographic studios in Nagasaki in 1862, photographing leading Bakumatsu figures like Sakamoto Ryōma.
Ugra Narasimha statue
The Ugra Narasimha statue, also called the Lakshmi Narasimha statue, is a 6.7-meter monolithic granite image of Narasimha at Hampi, Karnataka, carved from a single boulder under Krishnadevaraya in 1528.
Uki-e
Uki-e (浮絵, "floating pictures"), also called kubomi-e, are Edo-period Japanese woodblock prints that used Western one-point linear perspective to give scenes exaggerated depth, pioneered by Okumura Masanobu.
Ukiyo-e (浮世絵)
Ukiyo-e (浮世絵), "pictures of the floating world," is Edo-period Japanese art of commoner life, both paintings and woodblock prints made by publisher, designer, carver, and printer, from Moronobu through Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige to Meiji artists, with major influence on European Japonisme.
Ukiyo-e publishing
Ukiyo-e publishing was the Edo-period Japanese commercial system in which a publisher (hanmoto) financed multicolor woodblock prints by artist, carver, and printer, working under shogunal censorship marked by approval seals.
Ukrainian modernism
Ukrainian modernism (український модернізм) was the modernist movement in Ukrainian art, literature, and theater from about 1890 to the early 1930s, ended by Stalinist repression.
Ulay
Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen, 1943–2020), German performance artist and photographer in Amsterdam, pioneer of performative Polaroid photography, collaborator of Marina Abramović 1976–1988, creator of the Spitzweg theft action and The Lovers.
Uli (art)
Uli is a traditional body and wall painting of Igbo women in southeastern Nigeria, drawn with a dark dye pressed from uli plant berries and adapted from the 1960s into modern art by the Nsukka School.
Ultimate Marvel
Ultimate Marvel is a Marvel Comics imprint reimagining Marvel heroes in a separate continuity: the original Earth-1610 line (2000-2015) launched with Ultimate Spider-Man and created Miles Morales, while the 2023 Earth-6160 line by Jonathan Hickman runs to a planned 2026 end.
Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor, the leading artist of Italian Futurism, best known for the 1913 sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
Umbo
Umbo, born Otto Maximilian Umbehr (1902–1980), was a German photographer, a leading figure of Bauhaus photography known for close-up portraits and high-angle Berlin street scenes such as Mystery of the Street.