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Inés Rivero
Inés Rivero (María Inés Rivero), Argentine model born 1975 in Córdoba; Elite Look of the Year 1992 winner, Victoria's Secret Angel 1998–1999, later actress, philanthropist, and Madrid-based designer.
Inez and Vinoodh
Inez & Vinoodh: Dutch photographer duo Inez van Lamsweerde (1963) and Vinoodh Matadin (1961), New York-based partners in life and art, pioneers of digital manipulation in fashion photography since 1986.
Infographic
Infographic (information graphic): a visual representation of information or data combining text, charts, icons, and illustrations to make a point. Distinguished from data visualization by argument-driven, aesthetic design; history spans cave art to Playfair, Minard, Isotype, and digital tools.
Infrared photography
Infrared photography is photography made with near-infrared light, roughly 700 to 1400 nanometers, first produced by Robert Williams Wood in 1910; foliage appears white, skies dark, and haze largely disappears.
Inge Morath
Inge Morath (1923–2002), Austrian-born American photographer, Magnum Photos member from 1949 and its first female full member (1955); photographed Iran, Russia, and the Danube, and married Arthur Miller.
Ingeborg Psalter
The Ingeborg Psalter is a lavishly illuminated Latin psalter from northern France, made around 1200 and named for Ingeborg of Denmark, queen of France; it is now in Chantilly.
Ingrid Sischy
Ingrid Sischy (1952–2015), South African-born American editor and critic, led Artforum 1979–1987 and Andy Warhol's Interview magazine until 2008, then wrote for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
Inji Efflatoun
Inji Efflatoun (إنجي أفلاطون), also written Inji Aflatoun, was an Egyptian painter and Marxist feminist activist whose work moved from surrealism to social realism and the White Light period.
Ink bamboo painting
Ink bamboo painting (Chinese: 墨竹) is a genre of Chinese painting that depicts bamboo entirely in monochrome ink, arising between the Tang and Five Dynasties periods.
Ink Grapes
Ink Grapes (墨葡萄图), also cataloged as Shuimo Putou, is a splashed-ink hanging scroll of grapes by the Ming artist Xu Wei, in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Ink plum
Ink plum (momei 墨梅) is an East Asian painting genre depicting plum blossoms in ink alone, begun by Song monk painter Zhongren and spread to Japan.
Ink wash painting
Ink wash painting (shuimo hua, suibokuga, sumukhwa) is an East Asian brush painting style using diluted black ink on paper or silk, emerging in Tang China, flourishing in the Song dynasty, and spreading to Korea and Japan.
Inlaid Bronze Hu with Banquet, Fishing, and War Scenes
Inlaid Bronze Hu with Banquet, Fishing, and War Scenes is a Warring States bronze wine vessel in the Palace Museum, Beijing, covered with inlaid scenes of feasting, hunting, and warfare.
Installation art
Installation art is a form of contemporary art in which objects and space together form the artwork: immersive, often temporary environments that viewers step inside, a term in use since the 1970s.
Instant photography
Instant photography is a process where film develops itself inside or after leaving the camera, producing a finished print in about a minute without a darkroom.
Instituto Torcuato Di Tella
The Instituto Torcuato Di Tella was a private research and cultural institute in Buenos Aires, founded in 1958, whose art centers made it the hub of the 1960s Argentine avant-garde.
Interchange (de Kooning)
Interchange, also titled Interchanged, is a 1955 painting by Willem de Kooning showing an abstracted seated woman in pink. Sold for $4,000 in 1955, $20.68 million in 1989, and $300 million to Kenneth Griffin in 2015.
International Gothic
International Gothic, also called the Beautiful Style, is a courtly European style of painting, illumination, and sculpture from about 1375 to 1450, practiced at courts in France, Italy, and Bohemia.
International Klein Blue
International Klein Blue (IKB) is the matte ultramarine paint Yves Klein developed with Parisian color merchant Édouard Adam: synthetic ultramarine (PB29) in a Rhodopas M poly(vinyl acetate) binder, registered in France in 1960 under Soleau envelope 63471 as a technique, not a color patent.
International Typographic Style
The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design movement from postwar Switzerland built on grid layouts, sans-serif type, and photography.
Internet aesthetic
Internet aesthetic: a named online style (cottagecore, dark academia) curated on Tumblr, Instagram, TikTok, and cataloged on AestheticsWiki; loosely bounded, used for identity, with Internet Ugly as a content-side example.
Inuit printmaking
Inuit printmaking is the tradition of stonecut and stencil prints developed by Inuit artists in the Canadian Arctic, most notably at Kinngait, from the late 1950s.
Inuit sculpture
Inuit sculpture is the carved art of the Inuit of Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland; once ivory trade pieces, it became an internationally recognized stone-carving tradition after 1949.
Invader (artist)
Invader is the pseudonym of an anonymous French street artist (born 1969; real name Franck Slama) who cements pixelated ceramic-tile mosaics inspired by the 1978 Space Invaders game in cities worldwide, over 4,000 works since 1998, including the ISS and Cancún Bay.
Invincible (character)
Invincible is the superhero alias of Mark Grayson, a half-Viltrumite son of Omni-Man in Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker's Image Comics series (2003-2018, 144 issues), adapted as the Prime Video animated series starring Steven Yeun since 2021.
Inwangjesaekdo
Inwangjesaekdo (Clearing After Rain on Mount Inwang) is a 1751 ink landscape by Joseon painter Jeong Seon showing Inwangsan overlooking Seoul, National Treasure No. 216.
IO Tillett Wright
iO Tillett Wright (born 1985) is an American author, photographer, and podcast creator, founder of the Self Evident Truths project of 10,000 LGBTQ portraits, author of Darling Days (2016), and host of The Ballad of Billy Balls.
Ippen hijiri-e
Ippen hijiri-e (一遍聖絵, Illustrated Biography of the Hijiri Ippen) is a 1299 Japanese emaki handscroll depicting the life of Ippen, founder of the Ji school of Buddhism.
Iris Apfel
Iris Apfel (Iris Barrel, 1921–2024), American interior designer and textile expert, co-founded Old World Weavers, did White House restoration work, and became a fashion icon after the Met's 2005 Rara Avis exhibition, distinct from the biometric iris-recognition subject of the same word.
Irises (painting)
Irises (1889), Vincent van Gogh's oil painting of blue-violet irises with one white bloom, painted at the Saint-Rémy asylum garden; held by the J. Paul Getty Museum since 1990, sold for $54 million in 1987, flowers originally violet before red lake pigments faded.