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Gunther Gerzso
Gunther Gerzso (1915–2000) was a Mexican painter and set designer who pioneered geometric abstraction in Mexican art while also designing sets for some 250 films.
Guo Xi
Guo Xi (郭熙, ca. 1000–1090) was the leading Chinese landscape painter of the late Northern Song dynasty, known for Early Spring (1072) and the treatise Linquan Gaozhi, the first systematic account of landscape painting.
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), Austrian symbolist painter and first president of the Vienna Secession; known for the golden phase works The Kiss and the Beethoven Frieze and the University of Vienna Faculty Paintings scandal.
Gustav Stickley
Gustav Stickley (1858–1942) was an American furniture designer and publisher who led the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States, known for his Craftsman oak furniture.
Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) was a French Impressionist painter, collector, and patron, known for Paris Street; Rainy Day and The Floor Scrapers, and for the Caillebotte bequest that forms the core of the Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist collection.
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), French painter and leader of Realism; born Ornans, died La Tour-de-Peilz. Known for A Burial at Ornans, the 1855 Pavilion of Realism, palette-knife impasto, and imprisonment after the 1871 Paris Commune.
Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré, full name Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré, was a French illustrator, painter, and sculptor (1832–1883), famed for illustrated editions of Dante, Cervantes, and Milton.
Gustave Le Gray
Gustave Le Gray, born Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Le Gray, was a French painter-turned-photographer, the central figure in French photography of the 1850s, best known for his seascapes.
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) was a French Symbolist painter known for jewel-like mythological and biblical works such as Oedipus and the Sphinx, and for teaching Matisse and Rouault in Paris.
Gutai Art Association
The Gutai Art Association (具体美術協会, Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai) was a Japanese avant-garde artist group founded around painter Jiro Yoshihara in Ashiya in 1954, known for radical experiments with materials.
Gutzon Borglum
Gutzon Borglum (John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, 1867-1941), Danish-American sculptor of Mount Rushmore and the colossal Lincoln bust in the Capitol Rotunda; began the Stone Mountain Confederate carving, was dismissed in 1925 amid Klan-linked controversy, and died in 1941 before Rushmore was finished.
Guy Bourdin
Guy Bourdin, born Guy Louis Banarès, was a French photographer and painter whose intensely colored, narrative fashion images for French Vogue and the shoemaker Charles Jourdan made him a defining figure of late twentieth-century fashion photography.
Guy Tillim
Guy Tillim (born 1962) is a South African photographer from Johannesburg who covered African conflicts for Reuters and AFP before turning to large-scale series on the architecture and street life of postcolonial cities.
Guze Kannon of Hōryū-ji
The Guze Kannon of Hōryū-ji (救世観音, also read Kuse Kannon) is a seventh-century wooden statue of Kannon kept as a secret image in the Yumedono hall at Hōryū-ji, Nara.
Gwanggaeto Stele
The Gwanggaeto Stele (廣開土王碑) is a granite monument erected in 414 CE by King Jangsu at Ji'an, China, to commemorate his father, King Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo.
Gwen John
Gwen John (Gwendolen Mary John, 1876-1939), Welsh painter and sister of Augustus John, Rodin's model and lover, known for quiet portraits of solitary women in muted tones; died in Dieppe in 1939.
Gwion Gwion rock paintings
Gwion Gwion rock paintings, formerly called Bradshaw paintings, are fine ochre human figures in Western Australia's Kimberley, dated by wasp nests to about 12,000 years ago and of confirmed Aboriginal origin.
H. R. Giger
Hans Ruedi Giger (1940-2014), Swiss fantastic-realist painter, sculptor, and set designer, creator of the biomechanical style, Oscar winner for Alien (1980), Necronomicon author, and founder of the Museum HR Giger in Gruyeres.
Ha Chong-hyun
Ha Chong-hyun (하종현, born 1935 in Sancheong, South Korea) is a Korean painter and leading Dansaekhwa figure known for the Conjunction series, pushing oil paint through hemp canvas from behind.
Haboku sansui
Haboku sansui (破墨山水図, Broken-Ink Landscape) is a 1495 hanging scroll by the Zen painter Sesshū Tōyō, the most celebrated Japanese example of the haboku broken-ink technique.
Hachiman in the Guise of a Buddhist Monk
Hachiman in the Guise of a Buddhist Monk (僧形八幡, sōgyō Hachiman) is the standard iconographic form of the Japanese Shinto deity Hachiman, shown as a monk.
Hagia Sophia mosaics
The Hagia Sophia mosaics are the surviving Byzantine mosaic decorations of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, spanning the 6th-century gold vaults of Justinian's church to 14th-century panels.
Hague School
The Hague School (Haagse School) was a group of Dutch painters who worked in The Hague from about 1860 to 1890, known for atmospheric, realistic landscapes.
Haida argillite carving
Haida argillite carvings are a Haida sculptural tradition from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, in which black shale from a single mountain quarry is carved into pipes, platters, and model totem poles.
Haiga
Haiga (俳画) is a Japanese painting style combining a minimal ink image, haiku, and calligraphy on one surface, arising in the 17th century with Matsuo Bashō.
Haitian naïve painting
Haitian naïve painting is a movement of self-taught figurative painting that emerged in Haiti in the 1940s around the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince, led by painters like Philomé Obin and Hector Hyppolite.
Hakuhō sculpture
Hakuhō sculpture (白鳳彫刻) is the Buddhist sculpture of Japan's Hakuhō period, conventionally dated 645–710, marked by fuller, more sensuous figures under Sui and early-Tang Chinese influence.
Halim Özyazıcı
Mustafa Halim Özyazıcı (1898–1964) was a Turkish calligrapher of the late Ottoman and early Republican periods, known as one of the leading twentieth-century masters of classical Islamic calligraphy and famed for his mosque inscriptions.
Hallows' Eve (Marvel Comics)
Hallows' Eve (Hallow's Eve), Marvel Comics Spider-Man character, real name Elizabeth Tyne/Janine Godbe, created by DeMatteis and Romita Jr. in 1995; became a mask-powered Dark Web villain in Amazing Spider-Man #14 (2022) and headlined a 2023 series by Erica Schultz.
Halo (DC Comics)
Halo (Gabrielle Doe, originally Violet Harper merged with the alien Aurakle) is a DC Comics photokinetic superhero and original Outsiders member, created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo in The Brave and the Bold #200 (July 1983), later adapted as Gabrielle Daou in Young Justice: Outsiders.