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Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus (1923–1971), born Diane Nemerov, American photographer of New York portraits of couples, children, nudists, and performers; Guggenheim fellow, MoMA New Documents 1967, first photographer shown at the Venice Biennale, subject of the 2007 Met archive acquisition.
Diary of a Victorian Dandy
Diary of a Victorian Dandy is a 1998 series of five staged color photographs by Yinka Shonibare, casting himself as a Victorian dandy and loosely based on Hogarth's A Rake's Progress.
Didarganj Yakshi
The Didarganj Yakshi (दीदारगंज यक्षी) is an ancient Indian life-size sandstone statue of a woman holding a fly-whisk, found on the Ganges bank near Patna in 1917.
Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray
Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray is a c. 1778 double portrait by David Martin of two cousins raised at Kenwood House, now at Scone Palace.
Die Brücke
Die Brücke (The Bridge) was a German Expressionist artists' group founded in Dresden in 1905 by four architecture students, including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and dissolved in 1913.
Die Welt ist schön
Die Welt ist schön (The World Is Beautiful) is a 1928 photobook by the German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch, collecting 100 black-and-white photographs and defining New Objectivity photography in Weimar Germany.
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (1886–1957), Mexican muralist and founder of the Mexican mural movement; los tres grandes with Orozco and Siqueiros; SEP, Chapingo, National Palace, Detroit Industry murals; Rockefeller Center's Man at the Crossroads destroyed over its Lenin portrait.
Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1599–1660), Spanish Baroque painter of Seville, court painter to Philip IV from 1623, creator of Las Meninas (1656), trained under Francisco Pacheco and made two Italian journeys.
Dieric Bouts
Dieric Bouts (c. 1410/1420–1475) was an early Netherlandish painter of Leuven, known for the Altarpiece of the Last Supper and the Justice of Emperor Otto III panels.
Dieselpunk
Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic science fiction and visual art genre blending the technology, aesthetics, and politics of the interwar and World War II era with speculative elements.
Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams (born 1932, Wiesbaden) is the German industrial designer who led Braun design from 1961 to 1995, co-founded Vitsoe, created the SK 4, 606 shelving, and the Ten Principles for Good Design, "less, but better."
Digital art
Digital art: art using digital technology as a medium, from Laposky's 1952 oscilloscope Oscillons and 1960s plotter works by Molnár and Mohr to net art, VR, and NFTs; distinct from art merely using digital tools, with unique preservation challenges.
Digital painting
Digital painting is the creation of paintings on a computer using drawing software, a graphics tablet, and a pressure-sensitive stylus instead of brushes, pigments, and canvas.
Digital photography
Digital photography captures images with electronic sensors storing light as pixel data instead of film. Key facts: CCD invented 1969 at Bell Labs, Kodak's 1975 Sasson prototype, 1.4 trillion photos taken in 2023, 92% on smartphones.
Dilbert
Dilbert, Scott Adams's syndicated comic strip launched April 16, 1989, satirized corporate office life through an engineer, Dogbert, and the Pointy-Haired Boss, reaching over 2,000 newspapers before its 2023 end.
Ding (vessel)
Ding (鼎): ancient Chinese tripod cauldron for cooking and serving food offerings, cast in bronze from the late Xia onward; a key Shang-Zhou ritual vessel and symbol of royal authority, counted in rank-graded sets of nine to three.
Ding Jing
Ding Jing (丁敬, 1695–1765) was a Chinese seal carver, calligrapher, and poet of the Qing dynasty who founded the Zhe school of seal carving and led the Xiling Eight Masters.
Ding ware
Ding ware (Ding yao) is Chinese white porcelain made at Quyang, Hebei, from the Tang to the Yuan dynasty, and one of the Song dynasty's Five Great Kilns.
Ding Ware Boy Pillow
The Ding ware boy pillow is a white porcelain headrest shaped as a recumbent boy, made at the Ding kilns of China's Northern Song dynasty (960–1127).
Ding Yunpeng
Ding Yunpeng (丁云鹏, 1547–after 1628) was a Chinese painter of the late Ming dynasty from Xiuning, Anhui, best known for Buddhist and Daoist figures and fine-line baimiao drawing.
Dinh Q. Lê
Dinh Q. Lê (1968–April 2024) was a Vietnamese American multimedia artist known for photo weavings, photographic prints cut into strips and interlaced by hand, addressing the Vietnam War, memory, and trauma.
Dior Saddle bag
The Dior Saddle bag is a curved, saddle-shaped flap bag designed by John Galliano in 1999 for Dior's spring/summer 2000 collection, halted in 2007, and revived by Maria Grazia Chiuri in 2018; distinct from the Lady Dior by its equestrian asymmetry, D stirrup clasp, and Oblique canvas.
Diorama
Diorama: a 3D reduced-scale representation of a real-life scene, coined by Daguerre in 1822 as a light-effect Paris theater, later the glass-cased habitat display form of natural history museums.
Disco ball
Disco ball, also called mirror ball or glitter ball: a rotating sphere of small mirror facets that scatters a spotlight into moving light spots. First recorded 1897; patented 1917 as the myriad reflector; iconic of 1970s disco clubs like Studio 54 and the Loft.
Discobolus (Δισκοβόλος)
Discobolus (Δισκοβόλος): lost mid-5th-century BC bronze discus-thrower by the Athenian sculptor Myron, once on the Athenian Acropolis, known through Roman marble copies including the Lancellotti, Townley, and Vatican versions.
Disney's Nine Old Men
Disney's Nine Old Men: Walt Disney's nickname for his core supervising animators, Les Clark, Marc Davis, Ollie Johnston, Milt Kahl, Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Frank Thomas, who shaped classic Disney character animation, wrote The Illusion of Life, and became Disney Legends in 1989.
Display typeface
A display typeface, also called a display font, is a typeface designed to be used at large sizes for titles, headlines, posters, and signage rather than body text.
Diva Zappa
Diva Zappa (Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen Zappa, born 1979) is an American artist, actress, and tarot reader in Los Angeles, youngest child of Frank Zappa, known for the mile-long knitted scarf Emilio and the 2011 exhibition Bruce.
Divisionism
Divisionism is a painting technique that applies pure, unmixed pigments in small touches so colors blend optically in the eye, developed by Georges Seurat in France from 1884.
Djenné terracottas
The Jenne-Jeno terracottas are fired-clay human and animal sculptures from the Inland Niger Delta in present-day Mali, among the earliest figural art of sub-Saharan Africa.