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Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), Swedish painter and spiritualist; De Fem séance group member; creator of The Paintings for the Temple (1906–1915); made abstract paintings by 1906, before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich, and was rediscovered by the 1986 LACMA and 2018 Guggenheim exhibitions.
Hindu temple architecture
Hindu temple architecture: South Asian sacred building tradition centered on the garbhagriha sanctum and shikhara or vimana tower, in Nagara, Dravida, and Vesara styles, planned on the Vastupurushamandala grid since the Gupta age.
Hinton St Mary Mosaic
The Hinton St Mary Mosaic is a Roman mosaic found in Dorset in 1963, whose central figure is commonly identified as one of the earliest images of Christ.
Hippolyte Bayard
Hippolyte Bayard (1801–1887) was a French inventor who independently invented direct positive photography on paper in 1839 and made the staged Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man (1840).
Hiram Powers
Hiram Powers (1805–1873) was an American neoclassical sculptor based in Florence, Italy, from 1837, known for The Greek Slave and portrait busts of Andrew Jackson and other prominent Americans.
Hiratsuka Un'ichi
Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一, 1895–1997) was a leading Japanese sosaku hanga woodblock printmaker who designed, carved, and printed his own works, taught in Tokyo, and spent 33 years working in Washington, D.C.
Hirayama Ikuo
Hirayama Ikuo (平山郁夫, 1930–2009) was a Japanese nihonga painter known for large Buddhist-themed works and Silk Road paintings, and a heritage activist who received the Order of Culture in 1998.
Hiro (photographer)
Hiro, born Yasuhiro Wakabayashi (1930–2021), was a Japanese-American commercial photographer known for bold, surreal fashion and still-life images, working for Harper's Bazaar from the late 1950s.
Hiro Mashima (真島ヒロ)
Hiro Mashima (真島ヒロ, Mashima Hiro), born 1977 in Nagano, is a Japanese manga artist behind RAVE, FAIRY TAIL, and EDENS ZERO in Weekly Shonen Magazine, a 2009 Kodansha Manga Award winner known for fast, hiatus-free serialization.
Hirohiko Araki (荒木飛呂彦)
Hirohiko Araki (荒木飛呂彦), legal name Araki Toshiyuki, born 1960 in Sendai, is the manga artist behind JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (since 1986, 120 million copies, nine parts) and the first living manga artist with a solo show at a Japanese national museum.
Hiromu Arakawa (荒川弘)
Hiromu Arakawa (荒川弘), pen name of Hiromi Arakawa, Japanese manga artist born 1973 in Tokachi, Hokkaido; creator of Fullmetal Alchemist, Silver Spoon, Hyakushō Kizoku, and Yomi no Tsugai.
Hiroshi Hamaya
Hiroshi Hamaya (濱谷浩, 1915–1999) was a Japanese photographer known for documentary studies of rural life in snow-country Japan, the 1960 Security Treaty protests, and later landscapes.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto (杉本博司, born 1948) is a Japanese artist whose photographic series Dioramas, Theaters, and Seascapes examine time and perception; he has also worked in architecture and stage direction.
Hiroshige (歌川広重)
Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重, 1797–1858), also Andō Hiroshige, Edo-period ukiyo-e landscape printmaker, pupil of Utagawa Toyohiro; famed for the Hōeidō Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
His Majesty King Charles III (portrait)
His Majesty King Charles III is Jonathan Yeo's 2024 oil-on-canvas official portrait, unveiled May 14, 2024 at Buckingham Palace, showing the King in Welsh Guards red with a monarch butterfly; also covers Canadian, Australian, and Coronation State Portraits.
Hishida Shunsō
Hishida Shunsō (菱田春草, 1874–1911) was a Japanese Nihonga painter who, with Yokoyama Taikan, developed the lineless mōrōtai technique and painted Fallen Leaves and Black Cat.
History of art
History of art, also called history of the visual arts, is the scholarly discipline studying artworks and architecture, established as an academic field in the 19th century.
History of erotic depictions
History of erotic depictions: sexual imagery from prehistoric carvings and Roman art through Renaissance prints, photography, Art Nouveau, and censored film, plus the contested philosophical and feminist line between erotic art and pornography.
History of painting
History of painting: pigment applied to supports from 100,000 B.C. African rock art and cave painting through history painting's academic dominance to modern abstraction, global Indigenous traditions, quantitative style analysis, and conservation science.
History of photography
History of photography: the development of durable light-made images from Niépce's 1826 heliograph through daguerreotype (1839), Talbot's calotype, wet collodion, gelatin dry plates, Eastman's 1888 Kodak, autochrome color, and digital sensors.
History painting
History painting: European narrative genre depicting stories from the Bible, classical history, mythology, literature, or real events (istoria). Ranked highest of the academic genres by the French Academy from the 17th century; declined in the 19th.
Hitler Masturbating
Hitler Masturbating (Hitler masturbándose) is a small 1973 gouache-on-paper work by Salvador Dalí, an alteration of a painting of horses in snow showing Hitler masturbating from behind; held at the Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Hitman (DC Comics)
Hitman (DC Comics) is a Garth Ennis and John McCrea comic series (1996-2001) about Tommy Monaghan, a telepathic contract killer in Gotham's Cauldron, spun off from DC's 1993 Bloodlines event.
Hoa Hakananai'a
Hoa Hakananai'a, meaning "stolen or hidden friend," is a basalt moai carved on Easter Island around AD 1200 and held in the British Museum since 1869.
Hodegetria
The Hodegetria (Ὁδηγήτρια, "She Who Shows the Way") is a Byzantine icon type in which the Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child and points to him.
Hojakdo
Hojakdo (호작도), also called jakhodo, is a Korean painting genre depicting a tiger beneath a pine with magpies above, a Joseon folk art subject carrying protective and satirical meanings.
Hokusai (葛飾北斎)
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎, 1760–1849) was a late Edo ukiyo-e master, also known as Shunro, Sori, Taito, Iitsu, and Manji, creator of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and The Great Wave, whose prints shaped European Impressionism.
Hokusai Manga
Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画) is a series of fifteen woodblock-printed picture books by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, published between 1814 and 1878 with about 3,900 sketches that later influenced European artists.
Holkham Bible Picture Book
The Holkham Bible Picture Book is an illuminated English picture book of biblical and apocryphal stories, produced in London around 1327–1335, known for vivid scenes of medieval life and labor.
Hollywood Africans
Hollywood Africans is a 1983 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat confronting stereotypes of African Americans in the entertainment industry, held by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.