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Gouache
Gouache, or body color, is an opaque water-based paint of pigment in gum arabic or dextrin with white fillers such as chalk; it rewets with water, dries matte, was used for miniatures, illustration, posters and animation cels, and cracks in thick layers.
Govardhan
Govardhan was an Indian Mughal miniature painter, active from about 1596 to 1645, who served Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan and excelled at portraits of holy men.
Grace Choi
Grace Choi is a DC Comics superhero created by Judd Winick and Tom Raney, debuting in Outsiders vol. 3 #1 (2003); a bisexual half-Bana-Mighdall Amazon with super strength, partner of Thunder/Anissa Pierce, and adapted on The CW's Black Lightning.
Grace Gifford
Grace Gifford (Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett, 1888-1955) was an Irish cartoonist and republican who married 1916 Easter Rising leader Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham jail hours before his execution. Known for caricatures, suffrage and Sinn Féin artwork, and the Kilmainham Madonna mural.
Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide is a Mexican photographer born in 1942 in Mexico City, known for black-and-white images of indigenous rituals and women, including Mujer ángel and Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas.
Graffiti
Graffiti is the often unauthorized spraying or scratching of words or images on public surfaces; the modern movement emerged around 1965 in Philadelphia and New York and spread worldwide in the 1980s.
Graham Sutherland
Graham Sutherland (1903–1980), English Neo-Romantic and Surrealist painter and etcher; known for Pembrokeshire landscapes, Blitz war drawings, the destroyed 1954 Churchill portrait, and the Coventry Cathedral tapestry.
Grand Prince Anpyeong (이용)
Grand Prince Anpyeong (안평대군, Yi Yong, 1418–1453), third son of King Sejong of Joseon, was a calligrapher, poet, painter, and collector who commissioned An Gyeon's Mongyudowondo and was executed by his brother Suyang in 1453.
Grande Odalisque
Grande Odalisque (Une odalisque, dite La grande odalisque), 1814 oil on canvas by Ingres, 91 x 162 cm, Louvre; painted for Caroline Murat, shown at the 1819 Salon, famous for its elongated anatomy and Orientalism.
Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne) is a book of hours illuminated by Jean Bourdichon for Queen Anne of Brittany between 1503 and 1508.
Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses, born Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961), American self-taught folk painter of rural farm scenes who began painting in her seventies, was discovered in 1938, and made over 1,500 works.
Grandmaster (Marvel Comics)
Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast), Marvel Comics Elder of the Universe created by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema, debuting in Avengers #69 (1969); a game-obsessed immortal, brother of the Collector, played by Jeff Goldblum in Thor: Ragnarok.
Grant Wood
Grant Wood (1891–1942), Iowa painter of American Gothic (1930), leading American Regionalist alongside Benton and Curry; studied in Munich, taught at University of Iowa, wrote Revolt Against the City.
Granulation (jewellery)
Granulation is a jewelry decoration technique in which minute grains of gold or silver are fused to a surface of the same metal, mastered by Etruscan goldsmiths of the first millennium BCE without visible solder.
Graphic design
Graphic design, also called communication design, is the art of planning and projecting ideas with visual and textual content. Covers its AIGA definition, 20th-century professional origins, specializations, tools, accessibility standards, and AI's mixed labor-market effects.
Graphic designer
Graphic designer: a professional who combines images, typography, and text to communicate messages. Also called communication designer; term coined by William Dwiggins in 1922; first book titled Graphic Design was Raffé's 1927 handbook; US median wage $62,960 (2025).
Graphics
Graphics: visual representations in computing, spanning raster pixel images and vector formats like SVG, their rendering, web standards, print history, graphic design, and AI generation.
Great Buddha of Tōdai-ji
The Great Buddha of Tōdai-ji (Tōdaiji Daibutsu) is a colossal gilded bronze statue of Vairocana Buddha at Tōdai-ji temple in Nara, Japan, first cast in the 750s.
Great Cameo of France
The Great Cameo of France, or Grand Camée de France, is the largest cameo surviving from antiquity, a Roman carving of the Julio-Claudian dynasty held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
Great Gallery
The Great Gallery is the best known pictograph panel in Horseshoe Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, and the type site of the Barrier Canyon Style of prehistoric rock art.
Great Mongol Shahnama
The Great Mongol Shahnameh, also called the Demotte Shahnameh, is a dispersed illustrated manuscript of Ferdowsi's epic, made in Iran in the 1330s and renowned for its paintings.
Great Mosque of Damascus mosaics
The Great Mosque of Damascus mosaics are gold and glass wall mosaics of the Umayyad Mosque, made under Caliph al-Walid I between about 706 and 715 CE.
Great Sphinx of Giza
The Great Sphinx of Giza (Abu al-Hawl) is a colossal limestone lion with a human head carved from Giza bedrock in Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, attributed to Khafre, 73 m long, 20 m high, with a Sphinx Temple and contested fringe redating claims.
Grebo masks
Grebo masks are wooden ceremonial masks made by the Grebo people of southeastern Liberia and southwestern Côte d'Ivoire, recognizable by tubular eyes that influenced Picasso's Cubism.
Greco-Buddhist art
Greco-Buddhist art, also called Gandharan art, is the sculptural tradition of ancient Gandhara in present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, blending Greek, Roman, Iranian, and Indian elements.
Green
Green: the spectral color between blue and yellow, historically hard to render because its pigments (malachite, green earth, verdigris, arsenical Scheele's and Emerald greens, viridian, phthalo) were rare, unstable, or toxic.
Green Vault
The Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe) is the treasure chamber of the Saxon electors and kings in Dresden's Royal Palace, Germany, holding Europe's largest collection of treasures, around 4,000 works.
Greene & Greene
Greene & Greene was the Pasadena architectural partnership of brothers Charles and Henry Greene, leading builders of the American Craftsman style, known for the 1908 Gamble House.
Gregor Krause
Gregor Krause (1883–1959) was a German-Dutch physician and self-taught amateur photographer who took about 4,000 pictures of Bali as an army doctor from 1912 to 1914, published as the influential 1920 book Insel Bali.
Gregorio Fernández
Gregorio Fernández (1576–1636) was a Spanish Baroque sculptor, born in Galicia and active in Valladolid, who led the Castilian school of polychrome wooden religious sculpture.