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Grendel (comics)
Grendel is Matt Wagner's American comic series, first published by Comico in 1982, about a masked spirit of aggression passing between hosts from criminal Hunter Rose to the 26th-century Grendel-Khan, later continued by Dark Horse.
Grete Marks
Grete Marks, born Margarete Heymann, was a German-born British ceramicist and painter who founded the Haël Werkstätten near Berlin and fled Nazi persecution for Britain in 1936.
Grete Stern
Grete Stern, who signed her work Ringl, was a German-born photographer who trained at the Bauhaus, settled in Buenos Aires, and created the surrealist photomontage series Sueños for the magazine Idilio.
Grief (photograph)
Grief (Grief, Kerch, Crimea) is a January 1942 photograph by Soviet photojournalist Dmitri Baltermants showing a grieving woman over executed civilians at Kerch, Crimea; first published in Ogonyok in March 1942 and reworked as a celebrated art print in the 1960s.
Grigory Myasoyedov
Grigory Myasoyedov (Григорий Мясоедов), 1834 to 1911, was a Russian realist painter who co-founded the Peredvizhniki, drafted their charter, and painted peasant life in works like The Zemstvo Dining.
Grill (jewelry)
Grill (jewelry), also called grillz, fronts, or caps: removable decorative tooth covers in gold, silver, or platinum, popularized by 1980s hip-hop and Eddie Plein; costs $20 to thousands, with decay and gum risks.
Grinling Gibbons
Grinling Gibbons (1648–1721) was a Dutch-born British wood carver and sculptor, celebrated for limewood carvings in St Paul's Cathedral, Windsor Castle, and Hampton Court, and Master Carver to William III.
Grisaille
Grisaille, from French gris (grey), is monochrome painting in shades of grey or limited neutral tones, used as underpainting beneath glazes, as finished sculpture-imitating works, and in stained glass, from the 12th century to Picasso and Richter.
Griselda Pollock
Griselda Pollock, born 1949 in South Africa, is a British-Canadian feminist art historian and Leeds professor emerita, the first art historian to win the 2020 Holberg Prize.
Grotesque
The grotesque, also called Grottesche, is an ornamental style of ancient Roman origin, combining scrolling plants, figures, and architecture; it was named for the grottoes of Nero's Golden House, rediscovered in 1488.
Group f/64
Group f/64 was a collective of eleven San Francisco Bay Area photographers, formed in 1932, including Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston, who promoted sharply focused "straight" photography.
Group of Seven (artists)
Group of Seven (Algonquin School), Canadian landscape-painting collective founded 1920, disbanded 1933; founders Carmichael, Harris, Jackson, Johnston, Lismer, MacDonald, Varley; national-school wilderness painting, first show 1920 Toronto.
Gu Kaizhi
Gu Kaizhi (顧愷之, c. 345–406) was an Eastern Jin dynasty painter from Wuxi who founded the theory of conveying spirit through painted form in Chinese figure painting.
Gu Wenda
Gu Wenda (谷文达), born 1955 in Shanghai, is a Chinese contemporary artist of the 85 New Wave known for invented unreadable characters and his United Nations hair monuments.
Guan Shanyue
Guan Shanyue (关山月, 1912–2000), born Guan Zepei, was a Chinese painter of the Lingnan School, best known for co-creating Such Is the Beauty of Rivers and Mountains.
Guan Tong
Guan Tong (关仝) was a Chinese landscape painter of the Five Dynasties period from Chang'an who studied under Jing Hao and gave the northern school its mature panoramic form.
Guanyin, Gibbons, and Crane
Guanyin, Gibbons, and Crane (観音猿鶴図, Kannon saru tsuru zu) is a set of three hanging scrolls painted by Muqi in the 13th century, held at Daitoku-ji Temple in Kyoto.
Gucci
Gucci, Italian luxury fashion house founded in Florence in 1921 by Guccio Gucci, a former Savoy hotel porter. Known for the Bamboo 1947 bag, Horsebit 1953 loafer, and GG monogram; owned by Kering since 1999.
Gudetama (ぐでたま)
Gudetama (ぐでたま), also GUDETAMA, is Sanrio's lazy egg character created by designer Amy, debuting in 2013 from the Tabekara Sosenkyo food contest; known for 'darii~' catchphrases, birthday 'every day', a 2022 Netflix series, and stronger overseas rankings than in Japan.
Guercino
Guercino, the professional name of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591–1666), was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese school who worked chiefly in Cento and later led Bologna's painting school.
Guernica (Picasso)
Guernica is Pablo Picasso's 1937 oil mural, 349.3 x 776.6 cm, painted for the Spanish Republic's pavilion at the Paris Exposition in response to the bombing of Gernika; held at Madrid's Museo Reina Sofía since 1992.
Guge murals
Guge murals (古格, གུ་གེ) are Buddhist wall paintings of the Guge Kingdom in western Tibet, flourishing from the late 10th century and especially its 15th- and 16th-century revival.
Guido Reni
Guido Reni (1575–1642) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese school, court painter to Pope Paul V and celebrated in his lifetime as "the divine Guido."
Guillermo Kahlo
Guillermo Kahlo (born Carl Wilhelm Kahlo, 1871–1941), German-Mexican architectural photographer in Pforzheim and Mexico City, father of Frida Kahlo, official photographer of Mexican colonial churches, Casa Boker documenter, builder of Casa Azul.
Guillermo Tolentino
Guillermo Tolentino (Guillermo Estrella Tolentino) was a Filipino classical sculptor and UP professor, creator of the Bonifacio Monument and the Oblation, named National Artist in 1973.
Gulammohammed Sheikh
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh (born 1937) is an Indian painter, poet, and art historian, a central figure of post-Independence art who taught for decades at Baroda and won the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
Guler school
The Guler school is a branch of Pahari miniature painting from Guler, Himachal Pradesh, founded around 1730–1740 by Pandit Seu and his sons Manaku and Nainsukh.
Gulshan Album
The Gulshan Album (Moraqqaʿ-e golšan) is a 17th-century Mughal album of miniature paintings, calligraphy, and engravings by Mughal, Persian, and European artists, now in Tehran's Golestan Palace Library.
Gundestrup cauldron
The Gundestrup cauldron is a richly decorated gilded silver vessel of the late Iron Age, found dismantled in a bog in northern Jutland in 1891 and now in the National Museum of Denmark.
Gunter Sachs
Gunter Sachs (Fritz Gunter Sachs, 1932–2011), German photographer, filmmaker, and art collector; Bardot's husband; opened Hamburg gallery showing Warhol in 1972; Sotheby's sold his collection for 51 million euros in 2012.