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Illustration
Illustration is the art of creating pictures that explain, interpret, or visually support an idea or story, typically appearing in books, magazines, posters, and films.
Ilya Mashkov
Ilya Mashkov (1881–1944) was a Russian and Soviet painter, a founder and leader of the Jack of Diamonds group, known above all as a colorist and master of still life.
Ilya Repin (Илья Ефимович Репин)
Ilya Repin (Илья Ефимович Репин, Ілля Юхимович Рєпін, 1844–1930), Ukrainian-born realist painter of the Peredvizhniki; painted Barge Haulers on the Volga, Ivan the Terrible and His Son, and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks; taught Serov and Kustodiev; died at Penaty, Kuokkala.
Image
An image is a representation—a drawing, mosaic, or optical counterpart—studied in art history and image theory, where modern visual culture considers its function beyond the artistic domain.
Image Comics
Image Comics, founded in 1992 by seven ex-Marvel artists including McFarlane, Liefeld, and Jim Lee, is the third-largest US comic publisher and the leading creator-owned house, taking no IP or media rights from creators. Notable for Spawn, The Walking Dead, and Saga.
Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was an American photographer known for botanical close-ups such as Magnolia Blossom (1925), portraits for Vanity Fair, and a founding role in Group f/64 in 1932.
Impasto
Impasto, from Italian for dough or mixture, is a painting technique of thick, relief-raising paint with visible brush or knife marks, used from Titian and Rembrandt to Van Gogh, Auerbach, and Kiefer, and studied via raking light and 3D scanning.
Imperial Academy of Arts (Императорская Академия художеств)
Imperial Academy of Arts (Императорская Академия художеств), founded in St Petersburg in 1757 as the Academy of Three Noble Arts by Shuvalov and Lomonosov, chartered by Catherine II in 1764; Russia's only higher art school until the early 20th century, abolished 1918.
Imperial crest of Japan
The Imperial crest of Japan, known in Japanese as Kiku No Gomon, is a sixteen-petaled chrysanthemum serving as the Emperor's personal crest and a national seal.
Imperial Crown of Russia
The Imperial Crown of Russia, formally the Great Imperial Crown, was made in 1762 for Empress Catherine II's coronation and served every Romanov monarch through Nicholas II.
Imperial Glass Factory
The Imperial Glass Company, later the Imperial Glass Corporation, was an American handmade glass manufacturer in Bellaire, Ohio, from 1901 to 1984, best known for its Candlewick and Cape Cod patterns.
Impossible object
Impossible object (impossible figure, undecidable figure): a 2D drawing the visual system reads as a 3D object that cannot exist, as in the Penrose triangle; impossibility lies in the observer's interpretation, studied since Reutersvärd's 1934 tribar and the Penroses' 1958 paper.
Impression, Sunrise
Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), Claude Monet's 1872 oil of Le Havre harbor, 48 x 63 cm, now at the Musée Marmottan Monet; its title gave Impressionism its name via Louis Leroy's 1874 mock review.
Impressionism
Impressionism is an art movement known for its short, broken brushstrokes and focus on light. Artists like Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot exhibited in Paris from 1874 to 1886.
Imroz (painter)
Imroz (ਇਮਰੋਜ਼), born Inderjeet Singh (1926–2023), was an Indian painter, illustrator, calligrapher, and poet from Lyallpur, lifelong partner of writer Amrita Pritam and artist of her magazine Nagmani.
in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
in Pursuit of Venus [infected] is a 2015–17 video installation by Māori artist Lisa Reihana that restages Pacific encounters with British explorers from an Indigenous point of view.
In the Hood
In the Hood is a 1993 sculpture by the African American artist David Hammons, consisting of a severed sweatshirt hood held open by wire and mounted on a gallery wall.
Inca ceramic aryballos (urpu)
The Inca ceramic aryballos, called urpu in Quechua, is a globular storage jar for chicha, the most recognizable form of Inca ceramics, made from about 1400 to the 1530s.
India ink
India ink (Indian ink, Chinese ink, 墨 mò) is a black ink of lampblack or carbon black suspended in water with glue, gum, or shellac binder; ancient Chinese origin, waterproof when shellac-bound, used for drawing, calligraphy, tattooing, and medical tissue marking.
Indian art
Indian art is the visual art of the Indian subcontinent, produced since prehistoric times. Its creation was shaped by diverse patronage, from royal courts to colonial institutions.
Indian art and colonialism
Indian art and colonialism is the study of painting, art schools, and collecting under British rule, from Company painting of the 1770s to the Bengal School's nationalist revival led by Abanindranath Tagore.
Indian art and modernity
Indian art and modernity is how Indian artists engaged with modernity from the late 1800s onward, from Raja Ravi Varma through the Bengal School to post-independence groups.
Indian art and nationalism
Indian art and nationalism is the use of painting, art education, and museums to define a national culture, most visibly in the Bengal School after 1905.
Indian manuscript illumination
Indian manuscript illumination is the decoration and illustration of handwritten books on the Indian subcontinent, practiced from at least the tenth century on palm leaf and paper.
Indian miniature painting
Indian miniature painting is a tradition of small, detailed paintings on paper and palm leaf that flourished across the Indian subcontinent from the 9th-10th century to the 19th.
Indian mural painting
Indian mural painting is the tradition of painting directly on walls, ceilings, and temple surfaces in India, attested from the 2nd century BCE at the Ajanta caves.
Indian painting
Indian painting: the subcontinent's pictorial tradition from Bhimbetka rock art and Ajanta murals through Mughal, Rajasthani, Deccani, and Pahari miniatures to Bengal School, Progressive, and contemporary art; key schools, techniques, and collections.
Indian scroll painting
Indian scroll painting is a family of Indian narrative art traditions in which itinerant storytellers unroll long painted scrolls panel by panel while singing or reciting the story.
Indigenous Australian art
Indigenous Australian art: art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, spanning rock art, bark painting, Western Desert dot painting and contemporary practice, with strong regional variation and distinctive ICIP copyright limits.
Indochina School of Fine Arts
The Indochina School of Fine Arts was an art academy founded in Hanoi in 1925 under the French painter Victor Tardieu, which trained Vietnam's first modern artists until 1945.