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Blythe Intaglios
The Blythe Intaglios are giant human and animal geoglyphs scraped into the desert pavement near Blythe, California, the best known of over 200 intaglios in the Lower Colorado River Valley.
Bo Yuan Tie
Bo Yuan Tie (伯远帖, "Letter to Boyuan") is a five-line running-script letter by Eastern Jin calligrapher Wang Xun, one of the few surviving authentic Jin dynasty calligraphy works.
Bob Budiansky
Bob Budiansky (born 1954) is an American comic book writer, editor, and penciller who named and profiled about 250 Transformers, wrote most of Marvel's Transformers comic issues 5-55, created Sleepwalker, and drew Ghost Rider.
Bob Layton
Bob Layton (born 1953), American comic book artist, writer, and editor; reinvented Marvel's Iron Man with David Michelinie, created Hercules: Prince of Power, co-founded Valiant Comics, and co-created War Machine and The Huntress.
Bob Mizer
Bob Mizer (Robert Henry Mizer, 1922–1992) was an American photographer who founded the Athletic Model Guild in 1945 and the pioneering gay magazine Physique Pictorial in 1951.
Bob Ross
Bob Ross (Robert Norman Ross, 1942–1995), American painter and host of PBS's The Joy of Painting (1983–1994), taught wet-on-wet oil landscape painting; Air Force master sergeant, Bob Ross Inc. co-founder, posthumous streaming and auction phenomenon.
Bobbi Brown
Bobbi Brown, American makeup artist; founded Bobbi Brown Cosmetics (1991, ten brown lipsticks at Bergdorf Goodman), sold to Estée Lauder 1995, left 2016, launched Jones Road 2020.
Bobrinsky Bucket
The Bobrinsky Bucket is a cast bronze vessel inlaid with silver and copper, made in Herat in 1163, now in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
Bodhisattva Guide of Souls
Bodhisattva Guide of Souls (Yinlu Pusa tu, 引路菩萨图) is a Tang dynasty silk painting from Dunhuang, showing a bodhisattva leading a deceased woman's soul toward the Western Pure Land.
Body art
Body art is art in which the human body, most often the artist's own, is the medium, a movement that arose internationally in the 1960s alongside performance art.
Body painting
Body painting is the temporary application of paint or pigment to the human body for art, ritual, performance, or camouflage, lasting from hours to weeks before washing off.
Body proportions
Body proportions: the size relationships among human body parts, expressed in art as head-height multiples (adults 7.5–8 heads, children fewer), traced from Egyptian grids and Polykleitos through Vitruvius and Leonardo's Vitruvian Man to modern 3D anthropometry.
Bodys Isek Kingelez
Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948–2015) was a Congolese artist in Kinshasa who built utopian model cities from cardboard and plastic, gaining fame after the 1989 Paris exhibition Magiciens de la Terre.
Bohemian Gothic sculpture
Bohemian Gothic sculpture is the sculpture produced in Bohemia, centered on Prague, from the mid-fourteenth to early sixteenth century, best known for the Beautiful Style of around 1400 and its Beautiful Madonnas.
Bohumil Kubišta
Bohumil Kubišta was a Czech painter, graphic artist, and art theorist, counted among the founders of Czech modern painting and a pioneer of Cubism in the Czech lands.
Bolognese school
The Bolognese school is the tradition of painting that arose in Bologna in the 1580s around the Carracci cousins, whose followers included Guido Reni, Domenichino, and Guercino.
Bonampak murals
The Bonampak murals are extensive Maya wall paintings of about 790 CE in Structure 1 at Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico, recording court life, warfare, sacrifice, and royal succession.
Bone (comics)
Bone is Jeff Smith's epic comic series (1991–2004, 55 issues, Cartoon Books) about Fone, Phoney, and Smiley Bone, banished cousins lost in a fantasy Valley; later reprinted in color by Scholastic Graphix and winner of eleven Eisner and eleven Harvey Awards.
Boneless technique
The boneless technique (mogu, 没骨) is a Chinese painting method that forms images directly in ink or color, without an ink-line outline, used for flowers and birds, landscapes, and figures.
Bonifacio Monument
The Bonifacio Monument, also called Monumento, is a bronze and granite memorial in Caloocan City honoring Andres Bonifacio, sculpted by Guillermo Tolentino and unveiled in 1933.
Book from the Sky
Book from the Sky (天書, Tianshu) is Xu Bing's 1987–1991 installation of hand-printed books and scrolls set in over 4,000 invented, unreadable Chinese-style characters, first shown in Beijing in 1988 and completed in 120 four-volume sets.
Book of Durrow
The Book of Durrow is an illuminated Latin Gospel book of around 650 to 700, the earliest surviving fully illuminated Insular Gospel book, held at Trinity College Dublin.
Bookmark
Bookmark: a thin card, leather, or fabric marker for keeping one's place in a book, and, in computing, a saved web page reference in a browser. Known since the 6th-century Coptic codices; digital bookmarks are often created but rarely used.
Booster Gold
Booster Gold (Michael Jon Carter), DC Comics time-traveling superhero created by Dan Jurgens, debuting 1986: a disgraced 25th-century football star who uses stolen future tech and robot Skeets to pose as a hero, famed for his Blue Beetle friendship and planned DCU TV series.
Borghese Gladiator
The Borghese Gladiator is a Hellenistic marble statue of a naked fighting warrior, signed by Agasias of Ephesus around 100 BC and now in the Louvre in Paris.
Borghese Vase
The Borghese Vase is a monumental ancient marble calyx-krater carved in Athens in the 1st century BC, unearthed in Rome and held by the Louvre since 1811.
Boris Grigoriev
Boris Grigoriev, full name Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev (Борис Григорьев), was a Russian painter of the School of Paris, known for psychological portraits and the peasant cycle Raseya.
Boris Kustodiev
Boris Kustodiev (Борис Кустодиев) was a Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, and theater designer, 1878 to 1927, best known for festive images of fairs, Maslenitsa, and merchant women.
Boris Mikhailov
Boris Mikhailov, born 25 August 1938 in Kharkiv, is a Ukrainian photographer and Hasselblad and Deutsche Börse prize winner whose series Case History documented homelessness in post-Soviet Kharkiv.
Boris Vallejo
Boris Vallejo, also signed simply "Boris", is a Peruvian-born American fantasy painter (born 1941, Lima) famed for Tarzan, Conan, and Doc Savage covers, oil technique, collaboration and 1994 marriage to Julie Bell, and 2026 retirement.