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Hyperrealism (visual arts)
Hyperrealism (also super-realism) is a visual-arts trend from late-1960s America: photorealist-precision painting and lifelike figure sculpture by Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Duane Hanson, John de Andrea, Ron Mueck; term coined 1973 by Isy Brachot.
I Gusti Nyoman Lempad
I Gusti Nyoman Lempad (c. 1862–1978) was a Balinese artist from Ubud who built temples and palaces before becoming famous for ink line drawings that helped define modern Balinese art.
I Love New York
I Love New York (I ♥ NY): New York State's tourism slogan, logo, and song, created in 1977 during the fiscal crisis; logo sketched by Milton Glaser in a taxi, song by Steve Karmen, trademark held by Empire State Development.
I Made Wianta
I Made Wianta (1949–2020) was a Balinese contemporary artist whose painting, installation, sculpture, and performance work moved Balinese art beyond classical narrative tradition toward abstraction; he exhibited at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
I Nyoman Masriadi
I Nyoman Masriadi is an Indonesian contemporary painter, born in Bali in 1973, known for large-scale acrylic paintings of muscular, black-skinned figures combining comic-book imagery with satire.
I Nyoman Nuarta
I Nyoman Nuarta, born in Tabanan, Bali, in 1951, is an Indonesian sculptor best known for the Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue and the Jalesveva Jayamahe monument in Surabaya.
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold is a 1928 painting by Charles Demuth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a symbolic portrait of poet William Carlos Williams.
I. M. Pei (贝聿铭)
I. M. Pei (贝聿铭, Ieoh Ming Pei, 1917–2019), Chinese-American modernist architect of the Louvre Pyramid, National Gallery East Building, and Bank of China Tower; Pritzker Prize 1983, founder of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
Iba N'Diaye
Iba N'Diaye (1928–2008) was a Senegalese painter, born in Saint-Louis and trained in France, who led the École des Beaux-Arts in Dakar after independence and worked in a hybrid African-European style.
İbrahim Çallı
İbrahim Çallı was a Turkish Impressionist painter, born in Çal in 1882, who led the 1914 Generation bringing French modern painting to Turkey and taught until 1947.
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Ibrahim El-Salahi (إبراهيم الصلحي), born in 1930, is a Sudanese painter and foundational figure of African modernism who co-founded the Khartoum School, blending Arabic calligraphy with modernist art.
Ibrahim Mahama
Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian contemporary artist, born in Tamale in 1987, known for monumental installations from discarded jute sacks and for founding arts institutions in northern Ghana.
Ichiboku-zukuri
Ichiboku-zukuri is a Japanese wood-sculpture technique in which a statue's head and torso, most often a Buddhist image, are carved from a single wood block, peaking in the Nara and Heian periods.
Iconographic analysis
Iconographic analysis is an art history method that identifies the subjects, symbols, and motifs in an image and interprets what they mean, largely for medieval and Renaissance art.
Iconography
Iconography, from Greek eikon and graphia, is the art-historical study of subject matter and symbolic meaning in images, distinct from formal analysis; Panofsky's three-level method and ICONCLASS define the field.
Ideation (creative process)
Ideation is the creative process of generating many solution ideas, the third stage of design thinking after Empathise and Define. It alternates divergent and convergent thinking, uses techniques like brainstorming, Crazy 8s, and SCAMPER, and research shows nominal groups outperform interactive brainstorming.
Ife bronze casting
Ife bronze casting is the lost-wax casting of naturalistic brass and copper heads at the Yoruba sacred city of Ife, Nigeria, between roughly the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
Ife terracotta heads
Ife terracotta heads are naturalistic sculptures of human heads modeled in fired clay at Ilé-Ifẹ̀ in southwestern Nigeria, produced mainly between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
Igbo Uli and Nsukka modernist painting
Igbo uli and Nsukka modernist painting is a movement at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka that adapted uli, a women's art of Igbo body and wall painting, into modern art.
Igbo-Ukwu bronzes
The Igbo-Ukwu bronzes are cast copper-alloy ritual vessels, regalia, and ornaments excavated at Igbo-Ukwu, eastern Nigeria, and dated between the 9th and 13th centuries CE.
Igor Grabar
Igor Grabar (1871–1960) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art historian, a leading master of Russian impressionism and editor of the first multivolume History of Russian Art.
Ihei Kimura
Ihei Kimura (木村伊兵衛, 1901–1974) was a Japanese photographer celebrated for Leica snapshots and portraits of everyday life, a central figure of postwar realism photography alongside Domon Ken.
Ikaris
Ikaris, also called Ikarus, is a Marvel Comics Eternal created by Jack Kirby in The Eternals #1 (1976). He flies and fires eye beams, is among the most powerful Eternals, and was played by Richard Madden as the 2021 film's tragic antagonist.
Ikat
Ikat (from Malay-Indonesian mengikat, to tie) is a resist-dyeing technique in which warp or weft yarns are tied and dyed before weaving, producing blurred, feathered patterns; major traditions include Central Asian abr, Indonesian ikat, and Indian patola double ikat.
Ike no Taiga
Ike no Taiga (1723–1776) was a Japanese painter and calligrapher of the mid-Edo period who, with Yosa Buson, led Nanga, the Japanese form of Chinese-influenced literati painting.
Ikenga
Ikenga is a horned wooden personal shrine figure of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria, embodying a man's achievement and the power of his right hand.
Ikko Tanaka
Ikko Tanaka (田中一光, 1930–2002) was a Japanese graphic designer who fused Western modernism with traditional Japanese aesthetics, producing over 2,700 posters and designing for Muji.
Ilkhanid miniature painting
Ilkhanid miniature painting is the illustrated manuscript painting produced in Iran and Iraq under the Mongol Ilkhanid dynasty (1256–1353), the formative stage of Persian painting.
Illustrated Sutra of Cause and Effect
The Illustrated Sutra of Cause and Effect (e-ingakyō) is a Japanese illustrated handscroll of the Buddha's life; its Nara-period examples are the oldest surviving emaki in Japan.
Illustrating Middle-earth
Illustrating Middle-earth: the art tradition depicting Tolkien's world, from the author's own 1937 Hobbit pictures and Pauline Baynes to Alan Lee, John Howe, Ted Nasmith, calendars, card games, and Jackson's films.