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Dada
Dada, or Dadaism, was an anarchic international artistic and literary movement founded in Zurich in 1916 during World War I, protesting the war's cruelty with nonsense, wit, and irony.
Dadang Christanto
Dadang Christanto, born 1957 in Tegal, Central Java, is an Indonesian-born contemporary artist based in Australia since 1999 whose performance, installation, and sculpture commemorate victims of political violence.
Daguerreotype
Daguerreotype (daguerréotype): first commercially successful photographic process, invented by Louis Daguerre in Paris, publicly disclosed August 19, 1839. Unique direct-positive image on silver-plated copper, iodine-sensitized, mercury-developed, fixed with hypo; no negative, sealed under glass in cases.
Dagwood Bumstead
Dagwood Bumstead, fictional husband of Blondie in Chic Young's comic strip Blondie (1930), disinherited playboy turned sandwich-building commuter; source of the Dagwood sandwich, 28 films, radio and TV adaptations, public domain 2026.
Dai Kui
Dai Kui (戴逵, courtesy name Andao) was an Eastern Jin dynasty scholar, sculptor, and painter who sinicized the Buddha image and invented the dry-lacquer jiazhu technique.
Daidō Moriyama
Daidō Moriyama (森山大道, born 1938) is a Japanese photographer known for grainy, blurred street images of postwar urban Japan and photobooks such as Farewell Photography.
Daily Planet
Daily Planet names two subjects: the fictional Metropolis newspaper in DC Comics' Superman stories (Daily Star in Action Comics #1, 1938; staff Perry White, Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen) and Discovery Channel Canada's daily science magazine series (1995–2018, hosts Jay Ingram, Ziya Tong, Dan Riskin).
Daimon Hellstrom
Daimon Hellstrom, alias Hellstorm or Son of Satan, a Marvel Comics human-demon hybrid created by Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich in 1973, debuting in Ghost Rider Vol 2 #1; adapted as Hulu's Helstrom (2020).
Dak'Art
Dak'Art, the Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain de Dakar, is a state-organized biennial of contemporary African art held in Dakar, Senegal, established by decree in 1989 and the first art biennial created in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly (born 1941, Tacoma, Washington) is an American glass artist and Pilchuck Glass School cofounder known for collaborative team-blown chandeliers, Seaforms, Macchia, and large installations like Chihuly Over Venice and the Bellagio Fiori di Como.
Dali Atomicus
Dali Atomicus is a 1948 photograph by Philippe Halsman showing Salvador Dalí leaping mid-air among three flying cats, a chair, and thrown water, inspired by his painting Leda Atomica.
Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst, also associated with YBA (Young British Artists), is a British conceptual artist born 1965 in Bristol, known for formaldehyde vitrine works such as the 1991 shark piece, the Spot paintings, the 1995 Turner Prize, the 2012 Tate retrospective, and the 2024 dating controversy.
Dan DeCarlo
Dan DeCarlo (Daniel S. DeCarlo, 1919–2001), American cartoonist of Archie Comics who defined its house style, gave Betty her ponytail, and created Josie and the Pussycats and co-created Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Dan Estabrook
Dan Estabrook (born 1969) is an American photographer in Brooklyn known for contemporary images made with 19th-century processes such as calotypes, salt prints, gum bichromate, ambrotypes, and tintypes, finished with watercolor, gouache, pencil, or cuts; series include Night & Day, Nine Symptoms, and At Sea.
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin (Daniel Nicholas Flavin Jr., 1933–1996) was an American Minimalist artist who made "situations" from fluorescent light tubes, working almost exclusively in that medium from 1963 until his death.
Dance (Matisse)
Dance (La Danse) is Henri Matisse's ring of five nude dancers, painted as Dance (I) (1909, MoMA) and Dance (II) (1910, Hermitage) for Sergei Shchukin's Moscow staircase, derived from Bonheur de vivre.
Dancing Faun
The Dancing Faun is a small bronze statuette of a dancing nude male figure found in 1830 at Pompeii and now in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
Dancing Flames
Dancing Flames (炎舞, Enbu) is a 1925 nihonga painting by Hayami Gyoshū depicting moths swirling around a blazing bonfire, held by the Yamatane Museum of Art in Tokyo.
Dancing Girl (prehistoric sculpture)
Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro, also called the bronze girl of Mohenjo-daro: a c. 2500 BCE lost-wax bronze statuette, 10.5 cm, excavated 1926 by Ernest MacKay, named by John Marshall, held in the National Museum, New Delhi.
Dandelion (crayon color)
Dandelion is a yellow Crayola crayon color, hex #FED85D, introduced in 1990, retired from the 24-count box on National Crayon Day 2017 for Bluetiful, and restored permanently in 2026.
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap is an 1851–52 oil-on-canvas painting by George Caleb Bingham, held at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis.
Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor (1850–1931) best known for the Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and the seated Abraham Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial.
Daniel Torok
Daniel Torok, American photographer and U.S. Army veteran, appointed Chief Official White House Photographer in 2025; took Donald Trump's and JD Vance's 2025 official portraits with a Nikon Z9, after film work on Macklemore's Same Love.
Danielle Moonstar
Danielle Moonstar, also Psyche and Mirage, is a Marvel Comics Cheyenne mutant superheroine created by Claremont and McLeod, debuting in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982) as a founding New Mutant with fear-illusion and psionic arrow powers, later a Valkyrie, and star of the 2026 Moonstar solo series.
Danish modern
Danish modern is a furniture design movement that developed in Denmark from the 1930s through the 1970s, emphasizing functionalism, natural materials, and minimalist yet organic forms.
Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon, born in 1942, is a self-taught American photographer and filmmaker who became the first staff photographer of SNCC and documented civil rights, bikers, and Texas prisons.
Dano Pungjeong
Dano Pungjeong (단오풍정, "Dano Scene") is a Korean genre painting by Shin Yun-bok showing women washing hair, bathing, and swinging on the Dano festival day.
Dansaekhwa
Dansaekhwa (단색화, Korean for "monochrome painting") is a school of monochrome abstract painting that emerged in South Korea in the 1970s, known for repetitive techniques like pushing paint through cloth.
Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre (Dance of Death, Totentanz) is a late medieval allegory in which Death, shown as a skeleton, summons people of every social rank, from pope to child, into a dance; it originated in 14th-century literature, first appeared visually in Paris in 1424–25, and spread through over 500 mural and print cycles by 1800.
Danube school
The Danube school (Donauschule) is a style of painting, graphic art, and sculpture that flourished in the Bavarian and Austrian Danube region from about 1500 to 1550.