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Charles Nègre
Charles Nègre (1820–1880) was a French painter and photographer, an innovative early practitioner known for street scenes of Parisian tradespeople, surveys of Chartres Cathedral, and pioneering photogravure.
Charles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi, Iraqi-British advertising executive and mega-collector, co-built Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi, founded the Saatchi Gallery in 1985, and popularized the Young British Artists through the 1997 Sensation exhibition.
Charles Sheeler
Charles Sheeler was an American painter and photographer whose sharply defined, geometric images of barns, skyscrapers, and factories made him a central figure of the Precisionist movement.
Charles White (artist)
Charles Wilbert White (1918–1979) was an American artist whose figurative drawings and prints depicted African American history, labor, and dignity over a four-decade career in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
Charles Willson Peale
Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) was an American portrait painter and naturalist best known for his portraits of George Washington and for founding Peale's Museum in Philadelphia.
Charlotte Perriand
Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999) was a French architect and designer, born in Paris, whose tubular steel chairs of 1928 and modular wooden furniture helped define twentieth-century modern interiors.
Charlotte Salomon
Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish painter who created Life? or Theater? (1940–1942). This autobiographical cycle of gouache paintings was completed in exile in southern France.
Chartreuse (color)
Chartreuse is a yellow-green color halfway between yellow and green, standardized on the web as the CSS named color #7FFF00 and named after the French liqueur of a similar hue.
Chavín art
Chavín art is the visual art of the Chavín culture of the Peruvian Andes, made chiefly at Chavín de Huántar around 1500 to 300 BC.
Chavín goldwork
Chavín goldwork is the hammered sheet-gold ornament production of ancient Peru's Chavín culture, roughly 900 to 200 BCE, and the first sophisticated metalwork in South America.
Chavín style
The Chavín style is the distinctive religious art style of Peru's Chavín culture, centered on Chavín de Huántar and defined by fanged deities like the Staff God.
Cheapside Hoard
The Cheapside Hoard is a cache of nearly 500 Elizabethan and Jacobean jewels found in a Cheapside cellar in 1912, almost all held by the London Museum.
Chen Chun
Chen Chun (陈淳, courtesy name Daofu, sobriquet Baiyang Shanren, 1483–1544) was a Ming dynasty Chinese painter from Suzhou, celebrated for freehand ink flower painting and traditionally paired with Xu Wei.
Chen Hongshou
Chen Hongshou (陈洪绶, 1599–1652) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher of the late Ming and early Qing, known for figure paintings whose distorted, archaizing forms were called strange and startling.
Chen Mingyuan
Chen Mingyuan (陈鸣远) was a Chinese Yixing stoneware potter active under the Kangxi and Yongzheng reigns of the Qing dynasty, regarded as the most eminent Yixing potter after Shi Dabin.
Chen Rong (painter)
Chen Rong (陳容, sobriquet Suoweng) was a Southern Song dynasty literati painter who became China's most celebrated painter of dragons, famous for the Nine Dragons handscroll.
Chen Shizeng
Chen Shizeng, original name Chen Hengke (1876–1923), was a Chinese painter, critic, and educator who defended literati painting in Beijing and was the decisive early patron of Qi Baishi.
Chen Shuren
Chen Shuren (陳樹人; 1884–1948) was a Chinese painter, poet, and Kuomintang politician who co-founded the Lingnan School of painting with Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng, reforming traditional ink painting.
Cheng Shifa
Cheng Shifa (程十发, 1921–2007), original name Cheng Tong, was a Chinese painter of the Shanghai school known for the "Cheng style" and for directing the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy.
Cheng Sui
Cheng Sui (程邃, 1607–1692, courtesy name Muqian) was a Chinese seal carver, calligrapher, and painter from Shexian, Anhui, honored as founder of the Qing Hui school of seal carving.
Chéri Samba
Chéri Samba, born 1956 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a Congolese painter and the best-known figure of the Popular Painting movement in Kinshasa.
Cheryl Tiegs
Cheryl Tiegs (born 1947, Breckenridge, Minnesota) is an American model and entrepreneur, widely called America's first supermodel, with Sports Illustrated swimsuit covers in 1970, 1975, and 1983, a 1978 pink-bikini poster icon, a 1978 Time cover, and a Sears clothing line.
Cheshire (comics)
Cheshire (Jade Nguyen) is a DC Comics assassin and Teen Titans enemy, debuting in New Teen Titans Annual #2 (1983) by Wolfman and Pérez; a poison specialist, mother of Lian Harper with Roy Harper, and lead of the 2025 miniseries Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League.
Chester Brown
Chester Brown (born 1960, Montreal) is a Canadian alternative cartoonist, creator of Yummy Fur, Ed the Happy Clown, Louis Riel, Paying for It, and Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, published by Drawn & Quarterly.
Cheyenne Brando
Cheyenne Brando, born Tarita Cheyenne Brando, was a French Polynesian model and daughter of Marlon Brando and Tarita Teriipaia, who died by suicide in 1995 at 25.
Chi Wara
Chi Wara is a mythical half-human, half-antelope culture hero of the Bamana people of Mali credited with introducing agriculture, and the carved headdresses made in his honor.
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro (chiaro-scuro, light-dark) is the art technique of strong light-dark contrast to model form and drama, used by Leonardo and Caravaggio, and also names Ugo da Carpi's 1516 multi-block chiaroscuro woodcut.
Chicano art movement
The Chicano art movement emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s among Americans of Mexican descent, making murals and posters for their communities out of the Chicano civil-rights movement.
Chicken Cup
The Chicken Cup (鬥彩雞缸杯) is a small doucai porcelain wine cup painted with chickens, made at the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen during the Ming dynasty's Chenghua reign (1465–1487).
Childe Hassam
Childe Hassam, born Frederick Childe Hassam (1859–1935), was an American Impressionist painter celebrated for New York street scenes, New England coastal views, and the Flag series of 1916–1919.