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Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022), Swedish-born American Pop artist, creator of soft sculptures (Floor Burger, Floor Cake) and monumental public objects like Clothespin in Philadelphia; The Street, The Store, collaboration with Coosje van Bruggen.
Claire Falkenstein
Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and jewelry designer known for large-scale abstract welded metal structures, often with fused glass, and public commissions in Europe and California.
Clara Peeters
Clara Peeters was a Flemish still-life painter based in Antwerp, active from 1607 into the early 1620s, known for breakfast and banquet pieces and hidden self-portraits in reflective vessels.
Clarence H. White
Clarence H. White (1871–1925) was an American Pictorialist photographer born in Ohio, a founding member of the Photo-Secession who founded the first American school of artistic photography.
Classic Landscape
Classic Landscape is a 1931 oil painting by Charles Sheeler showing the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge plant near Detroit, a central work of Precisionism.
Classical order
Classical order: the five systems of proportion and ornament, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite, governing column and entablature in Greek and Roman architecture, codified by Vitruvius and Renaissance theorists.
Classical Ottoman architecture
Classical Ottoman architecture is the imperial building style of the Ottoman Empire from about 1501 to 1703, centered on domed mosques, especially those of Mimar Sinan.
Classicism
Classicism: an aesthetic style and attitude in art, literature, architecture, and music modeled on ancient Greece and Rome, marked by form, simplicity, proportion, and restrained emotion; opposed to Romanticism, with French classicism under Louis XIV and later neoclassical revivals.
Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob, 1894–1954), French surrealist photographer and writer known for gender-questioning staged self-portraits and, with partner Marcel Moore, an anti-Nazi resistance campaign on occupied Jersey that ended in a death sentence.
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain, born Claude Gellée, was a French painter, draftsman, and etcher who spent nearly his whole career in Rome and became one of the great masters of landscape painting.
Claude Monet
Claude Monet (1840–1926), French Impressionist painter and founder of the movement named after his 1872 Impression, soleil levant; settled at Giverny in 1883 and painted more than 250 Water Lilies works.
Claude Picasso
Claude Picasso (Claude Ruiz-Picasso, 1947–2023), French photographer and son of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot; won legitimacy suit, administered the Succession Picasso from 1989, founded Picasso Administration in 1995, and documented MoMA's SPACES exhibition.
Claudia Andujar
Claudia Andujar, born in 1931 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, is a Swiss-born Brazilian photographer and activist known for five decades documenting the Yanomami people of the Amazon.
Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer (born 1970, Rheinberg, West Germany) is a German supermodel discovered in a Düsseldorf disco in 1987, famous for the 1989 Guess campaign, as Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel muse, the 1992 Revlon contract, and 1990s supermodel-era fame.
Claus Sluter
Claus Sluter was a Netherlandish sculptor, court sculptor to Duke Philip the Bold in Dijon, best known for the Well of Moses and the tomb of Philip the Bold.
Clearing Autumn Skies over Mountains and Rivers
Clearing Autumn Skies over Mountains and Rivers (江山秋色图) is a Song-dynasty blue-and-green landscape handscroll in the Palace Museum, Beijing, attributed to the imperial-clan painter Zhao Boju.
Clearing Winter Storm
Clearing Winter Storm is a black-and-white landscape photograph by Ansel Adams showing Yosemite Valley in fresh snow under clearing storm clouds, viewed from Inspiration Point about 1938.
Cliff Dwellers
Cliff Dwellers is a 1913 oil painting by George Bellows, a member of the Ashcan School, showing crowded immigrant tenement life on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (c. 1932–2002) was an Anmatyerr painter of the Papunya Tula dot painting movement and the first Aboriginal Australian artist to gain international fame.
Clio Awards
The Clio Awards, founded in 1959, are an international advertising and marketing creativity awards program. Also called The Clios, they award Grand, Gold, Silver, Bronze statues via industry juries and run sister programs in health, sports, music, and entertainment.
Clip art
Clip art: pre-made illustrations reused in documents, slides, and layouts, named for literally clipping images from printed stock; from printer's cuts and ClickArt to Word galleries, PNG/SVG, and AI generation.
Cloaca (art installation)
Cloaca is a series of ten digestive-machine art installations by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, first shown at MuHKA Antwerp in 2000. The computer-controlled machines eat twice daily and excrete feces sold as art, with Cloaca Professional permanently at MONA, Tasmania.
Clodion
Clodion (Claude Michel; 1738–1814) was a French rococo and early neoclassical sculptor, one of the leading late-18th-century French sculptors, best known for small terracotta mythological groups.
Cloisonné
Cloisonné (jingtailan, 景泰蓝; Japanese shippō) is an enamelling technique using wire cells filled with glass enamel and fired, with Mycenaean, Byzantine, Chinese, and Japanese traditions.
Cloisonnism
Cloisonnism is a style of late nineteenth-century French painting using flat areas of color separated by dark contours, developed by Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin around 1887.
Cloisters Cross
The Cloisters Cross is a large Romanesque altar cross carved in walrus ivory in England around 1150–60, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1963.
Clothespin
Clothespin is a monumental sculpture of a giant steel clothespin by Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, installed at Centre Square in Center City Philadelphia in 1976 and regarded as a landmark of urban public art.
Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate, nicknamed The Bean, is Anish Kapoor's 110-ton polished stainless steel sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park, made of 168 welded plates, unveiled 2004-2006, reopened June 2024 after plaza repairs.
Coat of arms
Coat of arms: hereditary shield-centered emblem of medieval European origin (mid-12th century), defined by blazon and tincture rules; personal, not surname-based; granted by authorities like the College of Arms.
Coat of arms of Poland
Coat of arms of Poland (Orzeł Biały, White Eagle): white crowned eagle with gold beak and claws on a red shield, state emblem since Przemysł II's 1295 coronation, redesigned by Zygmunt Kamiński in 1927, crown restored 1989, regulated by the 1980 act.