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Zhostovo painting
Zhostovo painting (Жостовская роспись) is a Russian folk craft of hand-painting metal trays with floral designs, centered in the village of Zhostovo near Moscow since 1825.
Zhou Fang
Zhou Fang (周昉, courtesy names Zhonglang and Jingxuan, c. 730–800) was a mid-Tang dynasty Chinese painter from Chang'an, known for portraits of aristocratic women and creating the Water-Moon Guanyin iconography.
Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses
Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses (周茂叔愛蓮図) is a 15th-century hanging scroll by Kanō Masanobu showing the Song scholar Zhou Dunyi drifting in a boat among lotuses.
Zhu Kexin
Zhu Kexin (朱可心, born Zhu Kaichang, 1904 to 1986) was a Chinese Yixing zisha pottery master best known for naturalistic flower-vessel teapots called "Kexin flower ware".
Zhu Qizhan
Zhu Qizhan (朱屺瞻) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher from Taicang, Jiangsu, 1892 to 1996, known for vigorous ink landscapes and flowers blending Chinese tradition with Western color.
Zhu Yu (朱昱) (artist)
Zhu Yu (朱昱), born 1970 in Chengdu, is a Chinese conceptual and performance artist known for Eating People (2000) and, since 2004, photorealistic paintings of leftovers, tea stains, and pebbles; works in Beijing.
Zhuanzhan Shaanbei
Zhuanzhan Shaanbei (转战陕北) was the 1947–1948 campaign in which Mao Zedong abandoned Yan'an and eluded Hu Zongnan's larger Nationalist army across northern Shaanxi for over a year.
Zimbabwe Bird
The Zimbabwe Bird is a soapstone sculpture of a bird on a column, one of eight from Great Zimbabwe and now the national emblem on Zimbabwe's flag.
Zimbabwean stone sculpture
Zimbabwean stone sculpture, often marketed as "Shona sculpture," is a contemporary art movement in which Zimbabwean artists carve figurative and abstract works from local stones like serpentine.
Zippy the Pinhead
Zippy the Pinhead, Bill Griffith's surreal comic strip begun in Real Pulp Comics (1970), features a microcephalic muumuu-wearing protagonist; syndicated nationally by King Features since 1986 in over 200 newspapers, famous for 'Are we having fun yet?'
Zoe Leonard
Zoe Leonard (born 1961, Liberty, New York) is an American artist working with photography and sculpture, featured in Documenta in 1992 and 2007 and the Whitney Biennial.
Zoetrope
Zoetrope ("wheel of life"): 19th-century optical toy by William George Horner (c. 1833–1834), a spinning slitted drum whose inner image strip appears to move through persistence of vision; on sale from 1867, succeeded by Reynaud's praxinoscope and Muybridge's zoopraxiscope.
Zōjōji Temple in Snow
Zōjōji Temple in Snow (増上寺之雪) is a 1925 woodblock print by Kawase Hasui showing a lone woman with an umbrella before Zōjōji temple in Tokyo.
Zone System
The Zone System is a photographic exposure and development method devised by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer in the late 1930s, dividing the tonal scale into eleven zones from pure black to pure white.
Zong Bing
Zong Bing (宗炳, 375–443), courtesy name Shaowen, was a Chinese painter, theorist, and lay Buddhist of the Eastern Jin and Liu Song dynasties who declined all offers of office.
Zsolnay
Zsolnay is a Hungarian ceramics manufacturer founded in 1853 in Pécs by Miklós Zsolnay, known for its iridescent eosin glaze and for pyrogranite, which clad Art Nouveau buildings.
Zuccone
Zuccone, Italian for "big pumpkin-head", is a life-size marble prophet by Donatello, carved around 1436 for Giotto's Campanile in Florence and now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
Zuzana Licko
Zuzana Licko, born 1961 in Bratislava, is a Slovak-born American type designer who pioneered digital typeface design on the first Apple Macintosh and co-founded Emigre, whose typefaces include Mrs Eaves.
Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa, born 1960 in Durban, South Africa, is a painter and photographer known for large-format color portraits of township residents, migrant workers, and church congregants; his work is held at MoMA.