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Wu Guanzhong
Wu Guanzhong (吴冠中, 1919–2010) was a Chinese painter and art educator, born in Yixing, Jiangsu and trained in Paris, who fused Western oil painting with Chinese ink aesthetics.
Wu Hufan
Wu Hufan (吴湖帆, 1894–1968) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, collector, and connoisseur based in Suzhou and Shanghai, a central figure in 20th-century art collecting and authentication whose studio Meijing Shuwu trained notable artists.
Wu School
The Wu School (吴门画派, Wumen School) was a school of Chinese literati painting centered in Suzhou, active from the mid to late Ming dynasty and led by Shen Zhou and Wen Zhengming.
Wu Weishan
Wu Weishan (吴为山), born 1962 in Jiangsu, is a Chinese sculptor and director of the National Art Museum of China, known for founding "xieyi sculpture."
Wu Youru
Wu Youru (吴友如, died about 1893) was a Chinese painter of the late Qing dynasty and founding chief painter of the Dianshizhai Pictorial in Shanghai.
Wu Zhen
Wu Zhen (吴镇, 1280–1354) was a Chinese painter of the Yuan dynasty and one of the Four Masters of the Yuan, known for reclusive fishermen, landscapes, and ink bamboo.
Wu Zuoren
Wu Zuoren (吴作人; 1908–1997) was a Chinese painter who trained in oil painting under Xu Beihong, then turned to ink painting of yaks, camels, pandas, and goldfish.
Wucai
Wucai (五彩, "five colors") is a Chinese porcelain decoration in which bright enamels are painted over the glaze and refired, flourishing in the Ming and Kangxi periods.
Wutai Mountains panorama, Dunhuang Cave 61
The Wutai Mountains panorama (五台山圖) is a monumental mural on the west wall of Cave 61 at the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang, painted by 947 and the largest Buddhist historical-narrative painting at Mogao.
X-Force
X-Force is a Marvel Comics mutant black-ops team, dubbed the mutant CIA in its 2019 Krakoa-era volume, debuting in New Mutants #100 (1991) under Cable from Rob Liefeld's concept; its X-Men '97 version is led by Cable.
X-Men
X-Men: Marvel Comics mutant superhero team created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, relaunched in 1975, led by Professor X against Magneto; best-selling 1980s comic, civil rights allegory, Fox films, MCU reboot due 2028.
Xawery Dunikowski
Xawery Dunikowski, also spelled Ksawery, was a Polish sculptor and painter (1875–1964), a prisoner of Auschwitz from 1940 to 1945, known for the Wawel Heads and the Monument of the Silesian Uprisings Act.
Xenia Deli
Xenia Deli, Moldovan fashion model born 1989 in Basarabeasca, based in Los Angeles; won Beach Bunny 2011 Model Search, shot Victoria's Secret Pink, and appeared in Justin Bieber's "What Do You Mean?" video (2015).
Xia Chang
Xia Chang (夏昶, 1388–1470) was a Chinese painter and official of the early Ming dynasty, best known for ink bamboo paintings sought after in Korea, Japan, and Siam.
Xiao Yuncong
Xiao Yuncong (萧云从, 1596–1673) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet of the late Ming and early Qing, founder of the Gushu school of painting in Wuhu, Anhui.
Xie He
Xie He (謝赫) was a Chinese painter and theorist of the Southern Qi and Liang dynasties, author of the Gu Huapin Lu and its Six Laws of painting.
Xie Zhiliu
Xie Zhiliu (谢稚柳, 1910–1997) was a Chinese painter, art historian, and connoisseur from Changzhou, Jiangsu, who led the national survey of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy in the 1980s.
Xieyi
Xieyi (写意) is a major technique of traditional Chinese painting in which concise, freely moving brushwork conveys a subject's spirit and mood, standing opposite the meticulous gongbi mode.
Xiling Seal Art Society
The Xiling Seal Art Society (西泠印社) is a Chinese scholarly society for seal engraving and epigraphy, founded in 1904 at West Lake in Hangzhou and known as "the foremost society under heaven."
Xin'an school
The Xin'an school was a group of late Ming and early Qing landscape painters centered on Huizhou, Anhui, known for its dry, sparse brushwork and the monk-painter Hongren.
Xiongnu gold crown
A Xiongnu gold crown is a gold headdress from the tomb of a Xiongnu steppe leader, of which only four examples are known, the best preserved found at Aluchaideng.
Xu Bing (徐冰)
Xu Bing (徐冰), Chinese contemporary conceptual artist born 1955 in Chongqing, known for Book from the Sky (4,000+ false characters), Square Word Calligraphy, Book from the Ground, Phoenix, and Dragonfly Eyes; MacArthur Fellow 1999, former CAFA vice president.
Xu Wei's splashed-ink grapes style
Xu Wei's splashed-ink grapes style is a great-freehand manner of painting grapes in water-ink developed by the late Ming painter Xu Wei (1521–1593), whose signature work is the scroll Ink Grapes in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Y2K aesthetic
Y2K aesthetic, also called Y2K futurism or millennium aesthetic, is the techno-optimist visual style of roughly 1997-2004, coined by Evan Collins after the Year 2000 bug; revived by Gen Z on TikTok from about 2020.
Yagi Kazuo
Yagi Kazuo (八木一夫, 1918–1979) was a Japanese ceramist from Kyoto who led the postwar avant-garde group Sōdeisha, establishing nonfunctional ceramic sculpture, or objet-yaki, in Japan.
Yakusha-e
Yakusha-e (役者絵, literally "actor pictures") are Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints depicting kabuki actors, a principal ukiyo-e subject from the 17th century through the Edo period (1603–1868), with famous designs by Tōshūsai Sharaku and the Utagawa school.
Yakushi Nyorai of Jingo-ji
The Yakushi Nyorai of Jingo-ji (神護寺薬師如来立像) is a National Treasure wooden Buddha statue enshrined at Jingo-ji temple in Kyoto, carved in the late 8th century.
Yakushi Nyorai of Shin'yakushi-ji
The Yakushi Nyorai of Shin'yakushi-ji is a wooden seated statue of the Medicine Buddha at Shin'yakushiji temple in Nara, Japan, carved in the 8th or 9th century.
Yakushi Nyorai of Tōshōdai-ji
The Yakushi Nyorai of Tōshōdai-ji (薬師如来立像) is a National Treasure standing statue of the Medicine Buddha, carved in wood-core dry lacquer and enshrined in Tōshōdai-ji's Golden Hall in Nara.
Yamagoshi Amida
Yamagoshi Amida (山越阿弥陀図) is a genre of Japanese Buddhist painting showing Amida Buddha rising from behind a mountain to welcome the dying to the Pure Land.