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Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo (born 1958, Bogotá) is a Colombian sculptor and installation artist whose work memorializes victims of political violence, known for Shibboleth at Tate Modern.
Dorothy Napangardi
Dorothy Napangardi (c. 1950s–2013) was a Warlpiri Australian Aboriginal artist from the Tanami Desert, known for large monochromatic dot paintings of her ancestral Country, Mina Mina.
Doryphoros
The Doryphoros, Greek for "spear bearer," is a lost bronze statue of a spear-carrying warrior by Polykleitos of Argos around 440 BC, known through Roman marble copies.
Dōtaku
Dōtaku (銅鐸) are bronze bell-shaped ritual objects made during Japan's Yayoi period and used in farming community ceremonies, with about 500 examples found nationwide, mostly in the Kinki region.
Douban printing
Douban (饾版) is a Chinese woodblock printing technique that divides an image into many small color blocks, developed in the late Ming dynasty behind the Shizhuzhai albums.
Double-headed serpent
The double-headed serpent is an Aztec or Mixtec turquoise mosaic pectoral made in Mexico between about 1400 and 1521, one of the best-known Mesoamerican objects in the British Museum.
Doucai
Doucai is a Chinese porcelain decoration technique combining underglaze cobalt blue outlines with overglaze enamels, fired twice; created at Jingdezhen in the Xuande reign and reaching its peak under the Chenghua emperor.
Drawing
Drawing, also known as disegno, is the making of an image on a surface through line, tone, or other marks, serving as finished art, preparation, and training.
Drax the Destroyer
Drax the Destroyer (Arthur Douglas) is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Jim Starlin, first appearing in Iron Man #55 (February 1973) as a being resurrected by Kronos to kill Thanos, later a Guardian of the Galaxy played by Dave Bautista in the MCU.
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (Rêve provoqué par le vol d'une abeille...) is Salvador Dalí's 1944 surrealist oil of Gala asleep, 51 x 41 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land
Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land (몽유도원도) is a 1447 handscroll painting by Joseon court painter An Gyeon, depicting a dream of paradise by Prince Anpyeong, son of King Sejong.
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park is a 1947 Diego Rivera fresco mural depicting four centuries of Mexican history strolling through Mexico City's Alameda Central park.
Dreamachine
Dreamachine: flicker device invented around 1959-1961 by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville; a holed cylinder with a light bulb spinning at 78 rpm, viewed with closed eyes to induce vivid internal imagery via 8-13 Hz flicker.
Dreamcore (aesthetic)
Dreamcore is an internet aesthetic imitating the feel of dreams through surreal, nostalgic, low-fidelity imagery of liminal spaces, eyes, and VHS distortion; related to but distinct from liminal space and weirdcore, with a Chinese variant centered on 2000s urbanization nostalgia.
Dresden Green Diamond
The Dresden Green Diamond is a 41-carat natural green diamond, the largest known, with color evenly distributed through the stone, set in a hat ornament in Dresden's Green Vault since the 18th century.
Drone photography
Drone photography is the capture of still images and video with camera-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles, a form of aerial photography popularized by the 2013 DJI Phantom.
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn is a 1995 photographic triptych by Ai Weiwei showing him dropping and smashing a 2,000-year-old Han dynasty ceramic urn in Beijing.
Droste effect
Droste effect: recursive imagery in which a picture contains a smaller copy of itself, named for Droste cocoa tins (c. 1900) showing a nurse holding the same tin; analyzed mathematically via Escher's Print Gallery.
Drowning Girl
Drowning Girl (Help, Drowning Girl) is a 1963 Roy Lichtenstein Pop art oil and acrylic painting at MoMA, cropped from Tony Abruzzo's Secret Hearts #83 romance comic, with the speech bubble 'I don't care! I'd rather sink than call Brad for help!'
Dry plate
A dry plate is a glass photographic negative plate with a gelatin emulsion, introduced by Richard Leach Maddox in 1871 and dominant from 1880 to 1900.
Drypoint
Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking technique in which a sharp needle scratches lines directly into a metal plate, producing lines with a fuzzy, velvety edge.
Duan inkstone
The Duan inkstone (端砚) is a Chinese inkstone carved from Duan stone quarried at Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and prized since the Tang dynasty for grinding ink finely.
Duane Hanson
Duane Hanson (1925–1996) was an American sculptor best known for life-size, lifelike figures of ordinary Americans, cast from live models and dressed in real clothes so convincingly that museum visitors mistake them for living people.
Duane Michals
Duane Michals (1932–2026) was an American photographer who, against a documentary era, staged narrative sequences on death and desire and wrote on his prints, arguing that to photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
Dulari Devi
Dulari Devi (born 1968) is an Indian Mithila, or Madhubani, painter from Ranti village in Bihar who rose from domestic work to receive the Padma Shri in 2021.
Dullah
Dullah (1919–1996) was an Indonesian realist painter from Surakarta, Central Java, known for documenting the National Revolution and serving as President Sukarno's official palace painter from 1950.
Duncan Grant
Duncan Grant (1885-1978), Scottish painter and decorative artist, central Bloomsbury Group figure, Omega Workshops co-director, and lifelong partner of Vanessa Bell at Charleston, Sussex; known for Post-Impressionist painting and queer erotic drawings.
Duncan Phyfe
Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854) was a Scottish-born American cabinetmaker whose New York City workshop produced Neoclassical furniture for the early 19th-century elite, with demand peaking from 1805 to 1820.
Dunhuang copy-painting tradition
The Dunhuang copy-painting tradition (敦煌壁画临摹) is the practice of hand-copying the murals of the Dunhuang caves, chiefly the Mogao Grottoes, to preserve the deteriorating originals.
Dunhuang embroidered Buddha
The Dunhuang embroidered Buddha is a monumental 8th-century Tang dynasty silk embroidery showing a life-size Śākyamuni preaching on Vulture Peak, now in the British Museum.