5,509 articles
Gao Qifeng
Gao Qifeng (高奇峰, 1889–1933) was a Chinese painter from Panyu, Guangdong, one of the founders of the Lingnan school, known for eagles, lions, and tigers.
Garamond
Garamond, or Garamont, is a family of old-style serif typefaces originating with Paris punchcutter Claude Garamont (c. 1480–1561) around 1530; many versions, including Monotype's, actually derive from Jean Jannon's 1621 types, with revivals by ATF, Adobe, and EB Garamond.
Garçon à la pipe
Garçon à la pipe (Boy with a Pipe) is a 1905 Rose Period oil on canvas by Pablo Picasso showing a Montmartre boy with a pipe and rose garland; it sold for $104,168,000 at Sotheby's in 2004, the first artwork to exceed $100 million at auction.
Garden carpet
A garden carpet is a Persian carpet showing a formal walled garden in bird's-eye view, with canals, pools, trees, and a pavilion, its classic form set under the Safavid dynasty.
Garfield
Garfield is Jim Davis's comic strip about a lazy, lasagna-loving orange cat, debuted June 19, 1978 in 41 newspapers; Guinness record holder for widest syndication, run through Paws, Inc., acquired by Viacom in 2019.
Garry Trudeau
Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Doonesbury (launched 26 October 1970), first comic strip artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1975); also created Alpha House.
Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) was an American photographer from the Bronx, known for street photographs of New York City and American life from the 1950s through the early 1980s.
Gates of Paradise
The Gates of Paradise (Italian: Porta del Paradiso) are gilded bronze doors by Lorenzo Ghiberti, made for the Florence Baptistery between 1425 and 1452, depicting Old Testament scenes.
Gateway of the Sun
The Gateway of the Sun (Puerta del Sol) is a monolithic carved stone gateway at the Tiwanaku archaeological site in Bolivia, carved from a single 10-ton block of andesite.
Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill is a Delhi-based Indian photographer, born in Chandigarh in 1970, known for collaborative series such as Notes from the Desert and for winning the 2023 Prix Pictet.
Ge ware
Ge ware (哥窑) is a rare Chinese crackle-glazed celadon counted among the Five Great Kilns of the Song dynasty, known for its "golden threads and iron wires" crackle.
Ge Zhichuan Relocating
Ge Zhichuan Relocating (Ge Zhichuan Yiju Tu, 葛稚川移居图) is a hanging scroll by Yuan dynasty painter Wang Meng depicting the Daoist master Ge Hong moving his household to Mount Luofu.
Gebre Kristos Desta
Gebre Kristos Desta, also written Gebrekristos Desta (1932–1981), was an Ethiopian painter and poet credited with bringing modern art to Ethiopia; he trained in Cologne and taught at the Addis Ababa Fine Arts School.
Gelatin silver print
A gelatin silver print is a black-and-white photograph whose image consists of metallic silver particles in a gelatin layer on paper, introduced in the 1880s.
Gemma Augustea
The Gemma Augustea is a large Roman cameo cut from two-layered sardonyx, made around 9–12 AD, glorifying Emperor Augustus and Tiberius, and held in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Gene Colan
Gene Colan (1926-2011), American comic book artist of Marvel's Silver Age known for Daredevil, Tomb of Dracula, and Howard the Duck; co-created Falcon and Blade; painterly pencil style.
Generación de los Ochenta
Generación de los Ochenta, or Generation of the Eighties, names the Cuban artists and writers, born roughly 1948 to 1962, who broke with official aesthetics in the 1980s.
Generación del 52
Generación del 52 is the cohort of Bolivian historians, painters, and essayists whose work was shaped by the National Revolution of April 1952, which brought the MNR to power.
General View of Mt. Geumgang
General View of Mt. Geumgang (Geumgang jeondo, 금강전도) is a true-view landscape painting by Jeong Seon, dated 1734, a National Treasure showing the inner Geumgang mountains in one scroll.
General Zod
General Zod (Dru-Zod) is a DC Comics supervillain, Kryptonian military leader and Superman enemy, first appearing in Adventure Comics #283 (1961); banished to the Phantom Zone, famous for Terence Stamp's "Kneel before Zod" and Michael Shannon's Man of Steel portrayal.
Genevieve Gorder
Genevieve Gorder (born 1974) is an American interior designer and TV host from Minneapolis, an original Trading Spaces designer, HGTV's Dear Genevieve host, Design Star judge, and Netflix Stay Here host.
Genji Monogatari Emaki
Genji Monogatari Emaki (源氏物語絵巻) is a set of 12th-century Japanese handscrolls illustrating Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, the oldest surviving tale handscroll and a National Treasure.
Genji-e
Genji-e (源氏絵) is the Japanese term for paintings depicting The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century court romance, produced since the Heian period in handscrolls, albums, and screens.
Genosha
Genosha is a fictional island nation in Marvel's X-Men comics, created by Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi in Uncanny X-Men #235 (1988) as an apartheid allegory where mutants were enslaved, later Magneto's mutant haven, destroyed by Sentinels in New X-Men.
Genre painting
Genre painting is the branch of painting that depicts scenes of everyday life rather than mythic, religious, or historical themes, a tradition reaching back to Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Geoff Johns
Geoff Johns, born 1973 in Detroit, American comic book writer and producer behind Green Lantern: Rebirth, Blackest Night, 52, Stargirl, and DC Entertainment leadership; since 2023 co-founder of the creator-owned publisher Ghost Machine.
Geoffrey the Giraffe
Geoffrey the Giraffe, formerly Dr. G. Raffe, is the mascot of Toys "R" Us since 1965, redesigned with orange star spots in 2007, retired with the 2018 U.S. closures, and revived under WHP Global and Macy's.
Geometric abstraction in Venezuela
Geometric abstraction in Venezuela is abstract art built on pure geometric form, line, and color that became the country's dominant artistic language from the late 1940s through the 1970s.
Georg Jensen
Georg Jensen, born Georg Arthur Jensen (1866–1935), was a Danish silversmith and sculptor who founded his Copenhagen silversmithy in 1904, a defining name in Scandinavian silver.
Georg Jensen silver
Georg Jensen silver is the silverware, hollowware, and jewelry of the Danish silversmithy founded by sculptor Georg Jensen in Copenhagen in 1904, a defining body of Scandinavian design.