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Yongle gilt bronzes
Yongle gilt bronzes are gilt Buddhist sculptures, mostly brass, made in the imperial workshops of the Ming dynasty Yongle emperor (r. 1403–1424) as gifts for Tibetan lamas.
Yongle Palace murals
The Yongle Palace murals (永乐宫壁画) are Yuan-dynasty Daoist wall paintings covering about 1,000 square meters in Yongle Palace, Ruicheng County, Shanxi, built between 1247 and 1368 and moved to escape flooding in 1959.
Yoo Youngkuk
Yoo Youngkuk (유영국, 1916–2002) was a Korean painter and founding figure of abstract art in Korea, known for reducing mountains to geometric forms in saturated color.
Yoruba lost-wax casting
Yoruba lost-wax casting is the metalcasting tradition of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, best known for the naturalistic brass heads of the kingdom of Ife.
Yoruba palace carving
Yoruba palace carving is the sculpted wooden doors, veranda posts, and columns made for the palaces of Yoruba rulers, known as ọba, in southwestern Nigeria.
Yosegi-zukuri
Yosegi-zukuri (寄木造) is a Japanese wood-sculpting method that builds statues from multiple joined blocks, perfected by Jōchō and standard for large Buddhist images by the late Heian period.
Yoshida Hiroshi
Yoshida Hiroshi (吉田博, 1876–1950) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print artist, a leading figure of the shin-hanga movement known for luminous landscape prints such as the Taj Mahal.
Yoshitaka Amano (天野喜孝)
Yoshitaka Amano (天野喜孝, born 1952, Shizuoka) is a Japanese painter and character designer: Tatsunoko anime (Gatchaman, Time Bokan), Final Fantasy logos and art since 1987, Vampire Hunter D illustrations, and international fine-art exhibitions.
Yoshitoshi Abe
Yoshitoshi Abe (安倍吉俊, b. 1971), Japanese illustrator and character designer of Serial Experiments Lain; creator of Haibane Renmei; also NieA_7, Texhnolyze, RErideD, and the stalled Despera project.
Yōsuke Yamahata
Yōsuke Yamahata (山端 庸介, 1917–1966) was a Japanese photographer who recorded Nagasaki on 10 August 1945, the day after the atomic bombing, in more than 100 photographs.
You Can't Please All
You Can't Please All is a 1981 oil painting by the Indian artist Bhupen Khakhar showing a naked self-portrait watching a father, son, and donkey act out Aesop's fable.
Young British Artists
The Young British Artists (YBAs) are a loose group of British artists, also known as Britart, known for shock tactics and unconventional materials since the late 1980s.
Young Girls (painting)
Young Girls (Jeunes filles) is a 1932 oil on canvas by Amrita Sher-Gil, painted in Paris, showing her sister Indira and Denyse Proutaux; it won her 1933 Salon associate membership and is at NGMA New Delhi.
Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002), Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer of Ottawa, creator of "The Roaring Lion" Churchill portrait (1941); photographed over 15,000 sittings of twentieth-century leaders, artists, and scientists.
Yto Barrada
Yto Barrada, born in Paris in 1971, is a French-Moroccan artist whose photography, film, sculpture, and textiles examine borders, migration, and postcolonial history, centered on Tangier.
Yu Feian
Yu Feian (于非暗, original name Yu Zhao, 1889–1959) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher who specialized in gongbi flower-and-bird painting and revived the Song dynasty court style in modern Beijing.
Yu the Great Taming the Floods
Yu the Great Taming the Floods (大禹治水图玉山) is a monumental Qing dynasty jade carving in the Palace Museum, Beijing, made for the Qianlong Emperor between 1781 and 1787.
Yu Zhiding
Yu Zhiding (禹之鼎, 1647–1716) was a Chinese portrait painter of the early Qing dynasty who served the Kangxi court and painted the era's leading officials and scholars.
Yuan blue and white
Yuan blue and white (元代青花瓷) is underglaze cobalt-decorated porcelain produced chiefly at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), when Chinese blue-and-white reached technical maturity.
Yuefenpai
Yuefenpai (月份牌), the calendar poster, is a Chinese commercial advertising poster combining a printed picture with a calendar, which originated in late 19th-century Shanghai and flourished there from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Yun Hyong-keun
Yun Hyong-keun (윤형근, 1928–2007) was a South Korean painter and leading Dansaekhwa figure, known for abstract paintings of ultramarine and burnt umber soaked into unprimed canvas.
Yun school
The Yun school (恽派), also called the Changzhou school, is a Chinese bird-and-flower painting school founded in the early Qing dynasty by Yun Shouping of Changzhou.
Yungang Cave 20 Buddha
The Yungang Cave 20 Buddha is a colossal seated Buddha about 13.7 meters tall, carved in 460–465 CE under the Northern Wei dynasty at the Yungang Grottoes near Datong.
Yungang Grottoes (云冈石窟)
Yungang Grottoes (云冈石窟), also called Wuzhoushan Grottoes, are 5th–6th century Northern Wei Buddhist cave temples near Datong, Shanxi: 252 caves, 51,000 statues, including the Five Caves of Tanyao.
Yup'ik and Iñupiat mask carving
Yup'ik and Iñupiat mask carving is a wooden ceremonial tradition of two Alaska Native peoples, where carved masks embody spirits, animals, and visions for dance.
Yusaku Kamekura
Yusaku Kamekura (亀倉雄策, 1915–1997) was a Japanese graphic designer whose emblem and official posters for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics became defining images of postwar Japanese design.
Yushan school
The Yushan school (虞山派) was a school of Chinese landscape painting that formed around the early Qing painter Wang Hui (1632–1717) and his many disciples.
Yva
Yva was the professional pseudonym of Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon (1900–1942), a German fashion, advertising, and experimental photographer who led Weimar-era Berlin photography and taught Helmut Newton.
Yves Klein
Yves Klein (1928–1962), French postwar artist of Nice, creator of International Klein Blue (IKB), monochromes, the empty-gallery Le Vide, Anthropométries performances, and Leap into the Void; Nouveau Réalisme co-founder who died at 34.
Zach Kuperstein
Zach Kuperstein, New York-based cinematographer (director of photography) known for Barbarian, The Eyes of My Mother, The Climb, The Vigil, and Woman of the Hour; NYU Tisch graduate with Spirit Award and Camerimage nominations.