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Corporate Memphis
Corporate Memphis, also called Alegria, is the flat geometric illustration style of bendy-limbed, faceless figures that dominated big tech branding from 2017 to the early 2020s; created by Buck for Facebook, named by Mike Merrill, and in decline since a 2021 backlash.
Corpse paint
Corpse paint, also called corpse painting, is a black-and-white makeup worn by black metal musicians to look like a decaying corpse, standardized in Norway in the early 1990s.
Correggio
Correggio, born Antonio Allegri, was an Italian Renaissance painter named after his native town near Reggio Emilia, famous for his illusionistic dome frescoes in Parma.
Corsair (character)
Corsair (Christopher Summers) is a Marvel Comics space pirate, leader of the Starjammers, created by Claremont and Cockrum, debuting in X-Men in 1977, and father of Cyclops, Havok, and Vulcan.
Cosmic Boy
Cosmic Boy (Rokk Krinn), DC Comics Legion of Super-Heroes founder from Braal with super-magnetism; debuted in Adventure Comics #247 (1958); 1986 solo miniseries; animated and Smallville appearances.
Cosmic Cube
Cosmic Cube: Marvel Comics reality-warping artifact, first appearance Tales of Suspense #79 (July 1966) by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; created by A.I.M., powered by the Beyonders, can evolve into sentient beings like Kubik; adapted in the MCU as the Tesseract.
Cossack Baroque
Cossack Baroque, also called Ukrainian Baroque or Mazepa Baroque, is an artistic and architectural style that flourished on Cossack Hetmanate lands from the mid-1600s through the 1700s.
Cossack Mamai
Cossack Mamai (Козак Мамай) is the subject of a traditional Ukrainian folk painting of a Cossack playing a kobza in the steppe, popular from the 18th century.
Cottingley Fairies
Cottingley Fairies: five 1917–1920 photographs by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths at Cottingley, Yorkshire, endorsed by Arthur Conan Doyle; admitted 1983 as paper cut-outs on hatpins, with Frances claiming the fifth was genuine.
Cotton Mill Girl
Cotton Mill Girl is a 1908 photograph by Lewis Hine showing young spinner Sadie Pfeiffer in a South Carolina cotton mill, an iconic child-labor image.
Courier (typeface)
Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler for IBM typewriters around 1955–1956; IBM never trademarked it, and 12-point Courier remains the standard screenplay font.
Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk
Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk is an early 12th-century Chinese handscroll, attributed to Emperor Huizong, showing twelve court women pounding, sewing, and ironing silk.
Court Ladies Waving Fans
Court Ladies Waving Fans (挥扇仕女图), also known as Waving-Fan Ladies, is a Tang silk handscroll attributed to Zhou Fang, depicting thirteen palace women in five scenes and held in Beijing.
Court Ladies Wearing Flowered Headdresses
Court Ladies Wearing Flowered Headdresses (Zanhua shinü tu, 簪花仕女图) is a Chinese silk handscroll attributed to Tang dynasty painter Zhou Fang, held in the Liaoning Provincial Museum.
Court-lady painting
Court-lady painting (shinühua) is a Chinese figure-painting genre depicting women, especially court ladies, with a golden age under Tang painters Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fang.
Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue
Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue is a 1931 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe of a cow's skull on red, white, blue, and black bands.
Coyolxauhqui Stone
The Coyolxauhqui Stone is a large circular Mexica relief sculpture of the dismembered goddess Coyolxauhqui, unearthed in 1978 at the base of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City.
Crayola
Crayola, the American art-supplies brand of Hallmark-owned Crayola LLC (founded 1885 as Binney & Smith), has made non-toxic wax crayons since 1903, when the first eight-crayon box sold for a nickel.
Crayon
Crayon: a stick of colored chalk or wax for drawing, from French craie (chalk). Covers artist's crayons, conté (1795), the 1903 Crayola wax crayon, paraffin-pigment manufacture, ASTM D4236 safety, and recycling.
Crest (heraldry)
In heraldry, a crest is the three-dimensional figure placed on top of the helm in a full display of arms, not the coat of arms itself.
Cretan School
The Cretan School, also called the Italo-Cretan school, was an icon-painting school on Venetian-ruled Crete from the late 14th to late 17th century, blending Byzantine and Renaissance traditions.
Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge
Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge is a landmark 1927 photograph by American artist Charles Sheeler of two conveyor lines crossing at Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
Cristina Kahlo
Cristina Kahlo (born 1960, Mexico City) was a Mexican photographer, curator, and gallery founder, grandniece of Frida Kahlo and great-granddaughter of Guillermo Kahlo, known for danzón documentation, geometric architectural photography, and the Kahlo sin fronteras exhibition.
Cross of Cong
The Cross of Cong is an Irish processional reliquary cross made in 1123 to hold a relic of the True Cross, now in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Cross of Lorraine
Cross of Lorraine (croix de Lorraine), a two-barred heraldic cross with the upper bar shorter, emblem of the Dukes of Lorraine from 1477 and official symbol of Free France under de Gaulle from July 1940.
Cross pattée
Cross pattée (croix pattée, Tatzenkreuz, cross formy): a heraldic cross with arms narrow at the center and flared to broad flat ends; an ancient Christian form later associated with the Knights Templar's 1147 red cross.
Cross River skin-covered masks
Cross River skin-covered masks are masks and crest headdresses made by the Ejagham (Ekoi) and related peoples of Nigeria and Cameroon, mostly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Cross-in-square
The cross-in-square, also called the inscribed-cross church or quincunx, is a Byzantine church plan with a domed Greek cross inscribed in a square, dominant from the 9th to 12th centuries.
Crossed Swords Jolly Roger
The Crossed Swords Jolly Roger, a skull over two crossed cutlasses attributed to Calico Jack Rackham, is a 20th-century invention first appearing in Hans Leip's 1959 Bordbuch des Satans, with no 1720 source.
Crow (comics)
The Crow is James O'Barr's 1989 independent comic, published by Caliber Comics, about a murdered musician revived by a crow to avenge himself and his fiancée. It spawned films, a TV series, and a multimedia franchise.