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Henry Taylor (artist)
Henry Taylor (born 1958, Ventura, California) is a Los Angeles-based American painter of Black life, known for acrylic portraits, found-object sculpture, the MOCA/Whitney 'B Side' retrospective, and the 2026 Musée Picasso Paris show; distinct from the British painter Henry Taylor (c. 1883–1960).
Henry van de Velde
Henry van de Velde (Henry Clemens van de Velde, 1863–1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, and designer, a founder of Belgian Art Nouveau whose Weimar school preceded the Bauhaus.
Hentai
Hentai (変態, "pervert") is the English umbrella term for sexually explicit Japanese anime, manga, games, and doujinshi; in Japan the genre is called ero-manga or seijin-muke. Covers etymology, history from shunga to the 1980s lolicon boom, and regulation.
Heorhiy Narbut
Heorhiy Narbut (Георгій Нарбут, 1886 to 1920) was a Ukrainian graphic artist and book illustrator who designed the UNR's trident emblem, banknotes, stamps, and seals.
Heraldry
Heraldry: the European system of hereditary shield-centered emblems identifying individuals, families, and bodies. Also coats of arms, blazon, rule of tincture; origins 1128 Geoffrey of Anjou, College of Arms 1484, US Institute of Heraldry 1918.
Herat school of painting
The Herat school of painting was a school of Persian miniature painting that flourished in Herat, Afghanistan, in the 15th century under Timurid patronage, led by Behzād.
Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts (Herbert Ritts Jr., 1952–2002) was a Los Angeles-based American photographer famed for natural-lit black-and-white fashion, nude, and celebrity portraits, who also directed music videos for Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian-born graphic designer, typographer, and photographer who studied and taught at the Bauhaus, created the Universal alphabet, and emigrated to America in 1938.
Herbert List
Herbert List (1903–1975) was a German photographer, the leading representative of metaphysical photography, who worked for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Life and joined Magnum Photos in 1951.
Herbert Read
Sir Herbert Edward Read (1893–1968), English poet, art critic, V&A curator, anarchist, author of Education through Art (1943) and Art Now (1933); champion of Moore, Hepworth, Nicholson; co-founded the ICA in 1947.
Hercules and Antaeus (Pollaiuolo)
Hercules and Antaeus is a pair of works by Antonio del Pollaiuolo from about 1475: a small panel in the Uffizi and a bronze statuette in the Bargello, both in Florence.
Hereford Mappa Mundi
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a medieval world map drawn around 1300 on calfskin vellum and displayed at Hereford Cathedral, the largest surviving medieval mappa mundi.
Hergé
Hergé (Georges Remi, 1907–1983), Belgian cartoonist, pen name from reversed initials R.G., creator of The Adventures of Tintin (debut 1929), pioneer of the ligne claire style, 23 albums, 150 million copies sold.
Heri Dono
Heri Dono (born 1960, Jakarta) is an Indonesian contemporary artist based in Yogyakarta whose paintings, installations, and performances blend Javanese wayang kulit with cartoons for political satire.
Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch (1938 Vienna – 2022 Mistelbach), Austrian Actionist, painter, and composer, co-founder of Viennese Actionism and creator of the Orgien Mysterien Theater, a six-day total artwork of ritual actions, poured paintings, and noise music.
Hermann Zapf
Hermann Zapf (1918–2015) was a German calligrapher and type designer whose about 200 typefaces include Palatino, Optima, and Zapfino; the 1985 Apple laser printer bundled three of his families.
Hermenegildo Bustos
Hermenegildo Bustos, born José Hermenegildo de la Luz Bustos Hernández, was a self-taught Mexican painter of Purísima del Rincón, Guanajuato, known for portraits of his community.
Hermes and the Infant Dionysus
Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, also called the Hermes of Praxiteles, is an ancient Greek marble statue of Hermes holding the infant Dionysus, found at Olympia in 1877.
Hernando R. Ocampo
Hernando R. Ocampo, better known as H.R. Ocampo, was a Filipino painter and writer, a central figure of Philippine modern art declared a National Artist in 1991.
Heroes Reborn (1996 comic)
Heroes Reborn (ヒーローズ・リボーン) was Marvel's 1996 event outsourcing Avengers, Captain America, Fantastic Four, and Iron Man to Jim Lee's WildStorm and Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios, rebooting all four at #1 for a 13-issue run inside Franklin Richards's pocket universe.
Hiawatha Belt
The Hiawatha Belt is a wampum belt of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy recording the union of five nations under the Great Law of Peace; its design is the confederacy's flag.
Hibo Kannon
Hibo Kannon (悲母観音, Merciful Mother Kannon) is an 1888 painting by Kanō Hōgai showing Kannon pouring water onto an infant, widely seen as a starting point of modern nihonga.
Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (Jheronimus van Aken, c. 1450–1516), Netherlandish painter of 's-Hertogenbosch known for The Garden of Earthly Delights, fantastic symbolism, thin documentary record, and difficult attribution.
Higashiyama Kaii
Higashiyama Kaii (東山魁夷), real name Higashiyama Shinkichi, was a Japanese nihonga landscape painter of quiet blue-toned scenes, best known for the murals he painted for Tōshōdaiji temple in Nara from 1971 to 1980.
High dynamic range
High dynamic range (HDR): imaging techniques capturing and displaying a wider brightness range than standard digital imaging, via exposure bracketing, 32-bit merging, tone mapping, and BT.2100/ISO 22028-5 standards.
High dynamic range imaging
High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is a set of photographic and computational techniques that merge several exposures into one image capturing a scene's full range of brightness.
Higher Goals
Higher Goals is a 1986 outdoor sculpture by American artist David Hammons, five telephone poles topped with basketball backboards and hoops, installed in Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn.
Hildesheim Madonna
The Hildesheim Madonna is a gold-covered statue of the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child in the treasury of Hildesheim Cathedral, Germany, dating from Bishop Bernward's time.
Hill & Adamson
Hill & Adamson was an Edinburgh photography partnership of painter David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, active 1843 to 1848 and regarded as the first artistic use of photography.
Hill Women
Hill Women is a 1935 oil painting by Amrita Sher-Gil, part of a pair with Hill Men, depicting rural Indian women from the hill country.