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Gladstone Gallery
Gladstone Gallery, founded by Barbara Gladstone in 1980 in New York, is a contemporary art gallery with spaces in Manhattan, Brussels, and Seoul, representing over 70 artists and estates including Matthew Barney, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe, now led by partners Max Falkenstein, Gavin Brown, Caroline Luce, and Paula Tsai.
Gladstone Gander
Gladstone Gander is a Disney comic character created by Carl Barks, debuting in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #88 (January 1948) as Donald Duck's extremely lucky, lazy cousin, rival for Daisy Duck; he appears in DuckTales but never starred in his own comic or film.
Glamour photography
Glamour photography, also called Hollywood glamour portraiture, is stylized portraiture idealizing beauty via lighting, styling, and posing; it peaked in Hollywood's Golden Age (1920-1960) with George Hurrell, Ruth Harriet Louise, and Clarence Sinclair Bull, and differs from boudoir and fashion photography in purpose and audience.
Glaze (painting technique)
A glaze in painting is a thin transparent or translucent layer of paint applied over a dried underlayer, altering its hue while the color beneath stays visible.
Glazed brick reliefs of Susa
The glazed brick reliefs of Susa are polychrome glazed brick panels that decorated the Achaemenid palaces at Susa, Iran, in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE.
Glen Keane
Glen Keane (born 1954), American animator and Disney Legend; son of Family Circus creator Bil Keane. Animated Ariel, Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan, Rapunzel; won the 2018 Oscar for Dear Basketball with Kobe Bryant.
Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon, born 1960 in the Bronx, is an American conceptual artist known for text-based paintings that stencil borrowed words from literature and comedy until they smudge into illegibility.
Glenn McQueen
Glenn John McQueen (1960–2002), Toronto-born Pixar supervising animator behind Woody and Boo, helped shape early CG character animation; Finding Nemo was dedicated to him and Lightning McQueen of Cars was named in his honor.
Global Convenience
Global Convenience is a 2026 floating public art installation in Toronto's Harbour Square Park Basin by Trevor Wheatley, Cosmo Dean, and Puncture for Waterfront Toronto: a fully stocked but inaccessible replica corner store marking the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Global Village Coffeehouse
Global Village Coffeehouse (GVC) is a late 1980s to early 2000s design aesthetic of earth tones, woodcut and hand-drawn tribal motifs, named in 2018 by Evan Collins of CARI, epitomized by Starbucks, Panera Bread, and Borders, and criticized for cultural appropriation and greenwashing.
Gloucester Candlestick
The Gloucester Candlestick is a twelfth-century English cast-metal altar candlestick made for St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester between 1107 and 1113, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Go Hui-dong
Go Hui-dong (고희동, 1886–1965), also romanized Ko Hŭi-dong and known by the pen name Chungok, was Korea's first Western-style painter, who studied oil painting in Tokyo and founded its first modern art organization.
Go Nagai (永井豪)
Go Nagai (永井豪), born 1945 in Wajima, Ishikawa, is a Japanese manga artist, real name Kiyoshi, who debuted in 1967 after assisting Ishinomori. Harenchi Gakuen, Devilman, and Mazinger Z made him a pioneer of erotic, violent, and piloted-robot manga and of the media mix.
Gobelins Manufactory
The Gobelins Manufactory (Manufacture des Gobelins) is the French national tapestry workshop in Paris, founded by royal purchase in 1662 and named for the Gobelin family of dyers.
Godawari Dutta
Godawari Dutta (गोदावरी दत्त) was an Indian painter of the Madhubani (Mithila) tradition, a master of the kachni line-art style who received the Padma Shri in 2019 and trained thousands of women in the craft.
Godfrey Kneller
Sir Godfrey Kneller, born Gottfried Kniller (1646–1723), was a German-born portrait painter who settled in England in 1676 and served as court painter to five monarchs, from Charles II to George I.
Goguryeo tomb murals
Goguryeo tomb murals (고구려 고분 벽화) are wall paintings in Goguryeo burial tombs from the fourth century to 668, found mostly around Ji'an and Pyeongyang.
Golan Levin
Golan Levin is a new-media artist, engineer, and educator at Carnegie Mellon University, best known for Dialtones (2001), a concert played entirely on the audience's mobile phones.
Golconda painting
Golconda painting is a Deccani miniature painting school flourished at the Qutb Shahi court in India from the late sixteenth century until the Mughal conquest of 1687.
Gold Belt of Silla
The Gold Belt of Silla (대장식) is a pure-gold waist belt buried with Silla royalty in fifth- and sixth-century tombs at Gyeongju, reserved for the royal family.
Gold crown from Cheonmachong
The Gold Crown of Silla (Cheonmachong) is a sixth-century Silla gold crown excavated in 1973 from a royal tomb in Gyeongju and designated National Treasure No. 188.
Gold crown from Geumgwanchong
The gold crown from Geumgwanchong (금관총 금관) is a 5th-century Silla gold crown, the first ever recovered, unearthed in 1921 at the Geumgwanchong Tomb in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Gold Mask of Sanxingdui
The Gold Mask of Sanxingdui (三星堆金面具) is a hammered gold face covering made by the ancient Shu civilization of Sichuan, China, during the late second millennium BCE.
Gold Mask of the Lord of Sipán
The Gold Mask of the Lord of Sipán is a gold funerary face covering from the tomb of a Moche ruler at Huaca Rajada, Peru, excavated intact in 1987.
Gold medal
Gold medal: a first-prize medal of gold or gold color, from 1851 world's fairs and Paris Salon juries to Olympic art medals (1912–1948) and today's AIA, ACC, and Scholastic awards.
Gold-green landscape
Gold-green landscape (jinbi shanshui) is a Chinese landscape-painting style in which gold paste outlines and sets off mineral blues and greens, flourishing under Tang masters Li Sixun and Li Zhaodao.
Golden Age of American Illustration
The Golden Age of American Illustration, roughly 1880 to 1930, was the period when reproduced images in magazines and books became America's most widely encountered art.
Golden Buddha (statue)
Golden Buddha (Phra Phuttha Maha Suwanna Patimakon, Phra Sukhothai Traimit): 5.5-tonne, 3-metre solid gold seated Sukhothai-style Buddha in Maravijaya posture at Wat Traimit, Bangkok; hidden under plaster for about two centuries until its accidental 1955 rediscovery, valued over 250 million US dollars.
Golden hour (photography)
Golden hour (photography): the warm, soft, low-sun window after sunrise and before sunset, when the sun is within about 6 degrees of the horizon; also called magic hour, distinct from blue hour twilight.
Golden Madonna of Essen
The Golden Madonna of Essen (Goldene Madonna) is a gilded wooden sculpture of Mary enthroned with the Christ Child, made around 980 for the convent of Essen, Germany.