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Carlos Cruz-Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez was a Venezuelan artist, a principal figure of Kinetic and Optical art, best known for the Physichromie series and the immersive Chromosaturation installation.
Carlos Latuff
Carlos Latuff, Brazilian political cartoonist from Rio de Janeiro (born 1968 or 1963, sources differ), known for copyleft cartoons on Israel-Palestine, the Arab Spring, and Brazilian police violence, and for Holocaust-comparison controversies.
Carlos V. Francisco
Carlos V. Francisco, known as Botong Francisco, was a Filipino painter and muralist from Angono, Rizal, who revived mural painting and was posthumously named National Artist for Painting in 1973.
Carole Achache
Carole Achache (1952–2016), born Carole Salomon, French photographer, novelist and actress, daughter of writer Monique Lange; set photographer for Sautet, Losey, Tavernier; author of Fille de; subject of Little Girl Blue.
Caroline Cash
Caroline Cash, also known for PeePee PooPoo, is an American cartoonist from Charleston, South Carolina, and the current cartoonist of the Nancy comic strip since January 2026; Eisner and Ignatz Award winner.
Caroline Weldon
Caroline Weldon (1844-1921), born Susanna Karolina Faesch in Switzerland, was a Brooklyn-based artist and Indigenous rights advocate who served as Sitting Bull's secretary, translator, and advocate at Standing Rock in 1889-1890 and painted four portraits of him; the subject of the 2018 film Woman Walks Ahead, not the painter Caroline Weld.
Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems is an American conceptual artist, born in 1953 in Portland, Oregon, best known for the Kitchen Table Series of 1990 and its staged photographs.
Carroll Dunham
Carroll Dunham (born 1949, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American painter and printmaker, husband of Laurie Simmons, known for cartoonish biomorphic figures bridging abstraction and figuration, Whitney Biennials 1985, 1991, 1995, and motifs of bathers, trees, and guns.
Carte de visite
The carte de visite (CDV) is a small card-mounted photograph patented in Paris in 1854 by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri that made portrait photography a mass-market product.
Cartoon
Cartoon (Italian cartone): originally a full-scale preparatory drawing for a fresco or tapestry; since John Leech's 1843 Punch engraving, a humorous or satirical drawing. Includes gag, strip, editorial cartoons, and animation; distinct from caricature.
Cartoonist
Cartoonist: an artist who draws cartoons, from single-panel gags and editorial cartoons to comic strips and graphic novels; covers history from Töpffer and Outcault, editorial cartooning's decline, pay, and working conditions.
Carved lacquer
Carved lacquer (tihong) is a Chinese technique of carving through many layers of lacquer to create raised designs, developed as a distinct art by the twelfth century.
Caryatid
A caryatid (Καρυάτις, plural Καρυάτιδες) is a sculpted female figure used in place of a column, bearing an entablature on her head; the male counterpart is an atlas.
Casablanca Paris
Casablanca Paris (also Casablanca Tennis Club) is a luxury fashion house founded in Paris in 2018 by French-Moroccan designer Charaf Tajer, blending sportswear with Neapolitan tailoring; 2020 LVMH Prize recognition, Paris and Los Angeles flagships.
Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), German Romantic landscape painter born in Greifswald, based in Dresden; famous for Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Monk by the Sea, The Sea of Ice, and the Rückenfigur; rediscovered by the 1906 Berlin Jahrhundertausstellung.
Cassandra Austen
Cassandra Austen (Cassandra Elizabeth Austen, 1773–1845) was a British watercolorist and the older sister of Jane Austen, known for the only authenticated portraits of Jane.
Cassandra Cain
Cassandra Cain, DC Comics character created by Kelley Puckett and Damion Scott in 1999 (Batman #567): assassin-raised mute daughter of David Cain and Lady Shiva, fourth Batgirl and later Orphan.
Cassandre
Cassandre, born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, was a French poster artist and graphic designer whose railway and ocean-liner posters and typefaces Bifur, Acier, and Peignot shaped European advertising.
Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.
Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. (1912–1990), Louisville sign and mural painter, father of Muhammad Ali and Rahaman Ali; named for the abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay; self-taught commercial artist.
Casta painting
Casta painting, or pintura de castas, is a colonial Spanish American genre showing mixed-descent families labeled by racial category, flourishing mainly in 18th-century New Spain.
Catalan Atlas
The Catalan Atlas (Atles català) is a richly illuminated medieval world map of about 1375, attributed to the Jewish cartographer Cresques Abraham of Palma, Majorca.
Catalan Modernism
Catalan Modernism (Modernisme català) was a cultural movement in Catalonia from roughly 1890 to 1911, seeking to modernize the country while asserting its national identity.
Cats Suggested as the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
Cats Suggested as the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (其まゝ地口 猫飼好五十三疋) is an 1848 woodblock print triptych by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, showing 55 cats punning on the Tōkaidō stations.
Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), British fashion and society photographer, royal photographer, and Oscar- and Tony-winning stage and costume designer for My Fair Lady and Gigi, also a Ministry of Information war photographer.
Cecil Skotnes
Cecil Skotnes (1926–2009) was a South African printmaker and woodcarver best known for his incised painted wooden panels and his teaching at Johannesburg's Polly Street Art Centre.
Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux (Eliza Cecilia Beaux, 1855–1942) was an American society portraitist of Philadelphia, often compared with John Singer Sargent; first woman to teach full-time at the Pennsylvania Academy, 1896 Paris Salon honoree, painter of Edith Roosevelt and Clemenceau.
Cefalù Cathedral mosaics
The Cefalù Cathedral mosaics are Byzantine-style mosaics of about 650 square meters in Cefalù, Sicily, begun in 1148 for King Roger II and known for their Christ Pantocrator.
Celestial Eyes
Celestial Eyes is a 1924 Art Deco gouache by Francis Cugat, the original dust jacket painting for The Great Gatsby, now at Princeton University Library; Fitzgerald wrote its imagery into the novel.
Cella
Cella: the inner main chamber of a classical or ancient Near Eastern temple, housing the cult statue; Greek equivalent naos. Entry restricted to purified officials (erib biti); examples at Palmyra, Sardis, Delos.
Celtic knot
Celtic knot: interlaced Insular-art ornament of unbroken over-under lines, first seen in seventh-century Christian manuscripts of Ireland and Britain (Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels); not pre-Christian, and the specific knot meanings sold today are modern inventions.