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Jan van Goyen
Jan van Goyen (Jan Josephsz. van Goyen) was a Dutch painter of landscapes and marine views, a pioneer of naturalistic, tonal landscape painting in the 1600s.
Jang Seung-eop
Jang Seung-eop (장승업), known by his sobriquet Owon, was a Korean court painter of the late Joseon dynasty (1843–1897), one of the leading painters of the nineteenth century.
Jangarh Singh Shyam
Jangarh Singh Shyam (1962–2001) was an Indian Pardhan Gond painter from Madhya Pradesh, discovered at Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, whose style became known as the Jangarh Kalam.
Jannis Kounellis
Jannis Kounellis (1936, Piraeus – 2017, Rome) was a Greek-born artist based in Italy and a leading exponent of Arte Povera, best known for exhibiting twelve live horses in Rome in 1969.
Japandi
Japandi is an interior design style fusing Japanese minimalism with Scandinavian functionalism, using natural materials, a warm muted palette, and deliberate empty space; the term first appeared in the mid-2010s.
Japanese art
Japanese art (日本美術) spans Jomon pottery to contemporary work, including nihonga painting on silk or washi with mineral pigments and animal glue, ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and Buddhist sculpture, conserved through periodic remounting and national museum networks.
Japanese garden (日本庭園)
Japanese garden (日本庭園, nihon teien): the general term for Japan's garden styles, from Asuka-era pond gardens through Heian shinden gardens, Muromachi karesansui, and Edo strolling and tea gardens, contrasting with geometric Western design.
Japanese street fashion
Japanese street fashion: Tokyo youth dress culture centered on Harajuku, Shibuya, and Ura-Harajuku backstreets; subcultures like Lolita and kawaii produced by teens, now anchored commercially by brands such as BAPE and Human Made.
Japanese sword mountings
Japanese sword mountings (koshirae) are a sword's complete exterior, scabbard, hilt, tsuba, and fittings such as menuki, kozuka, and kogai, protecting the blade and displaying samurai rank, distinct from plain storage shirasaya.
Japonisme
Japonisme is the Western fascination with Japanese art and design after Japan ended its seclusion in the 1850s, named by critic Philippe Burty in 1872.
Jaromír Funke
Jaromír Funke (1896–1945) was a Czech photographer, critic, and teacher regarded as a leading figure of the inter-war European avant-garde, known for abstract still lifes and photograms.
Jarvis Rockwell
Jarvis Waring Rockwell (1931–2026), eldest son of Norman Rockwell, was an American draftsman and assemblage artist in North Adams known for toy-figure pyramid installations including Maya at MASS MoCA and the 2013 retrospective Maya, Illusion, and Us.
Jason Macendale
Jason Philip Macendale Jr., Marvel Comics Spider-Man villain, the original Jack O'Lantern (Machine Man #19, 1981) and Hobgoblin from 1987 to 1997; ex-Marine and CIA operative, later Demogoblin-linked, killed by Roderick Kingsley, voiced by Mark Hamill in the 1994 animated series.
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns (born 1930, Augusta, Georgia), American painter, sculptor, and printmaker of flags, targets, numbers, and maps; 1958 Leo Castelli debut, encaustic technique, Grand Prize Venice Biennale 1988.
Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa (born 1955, Barcelona) is a Spanish sculptor of monumental public heads and figures, creator of Crown Fountain in Chicago, Water's Soul in Jersey City, and Utopia, and winner of Spain's 2012 National Prize and 2013 Velázquez Prize.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940–2025) was a Salish Native American painter, printmaker, and curator whose paintings of maps and trade canoes confronted the treatment of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
Jay Jopling
Jay Jopling (Jeremy Michael Jopling, born 1963) is the English art dealer who founded London's White Cube gallery in 1993 and made household names of the Young British Artists, including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, expanding to New York, Paris, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
Jay Sebring
Jay Sebring (Thomas John Kummer, 1933-1969), American men's hairstylist; pioneer of men's salon styling and founder of Sebring International; killed in the Manson Family Tate murders on Cielo Drive.
Jayavarman VII Portrait Head
A gray-green sandstone portrait head of King Jayavarman VII of the Khmer Empire, carved in the Bayon style and regarded as a masterpiece of the Musée Guimet in Paris.
Jazz (design)
Jazz, also called the Solo Jazz cup design, is a teal and purple brushstroke pattern created by Gina Ekiss in a 1989 Sweetheart Cup Company contest, printed on 1990s paper cups, later a meme, with a competing claim by Stephanie Miller.
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) was a French painter, sculptor, and writer who coined art brut in 1945 and built the art brut collection now in Lausanne.
Jean Dunand
Jean Dunand, born Jules John Dunand (1877–1942), was a Swiss-born French Art Deco designer known for hammered-metal dinanderie and lacquer work with crushed eggshell inlay.
Jean Fouquet
Jean Fouquet (c. 1415–1420 Tours – 1478/1481) was the leading French painter and illuminator of the 15th century, court painter to Charles VII and Louis XI, famed for the Melun Diptych, the Hours of Étienne Chevalier, and his fusion of Flemish realism with Italian Renaissance space.
Jean Giraud bibliography
Bibliography of Jean Giraud (1938-2012), French comics artist signed Gir or Mœbius: Fort Navajo/Blueberry (from 1965), Arzach, Le Garage hermétique, L'Incal, Métal Hurlant co-founding, and English editions.
Jean Grey
Jean Grey (Marvel Girl, Phoenix) is a Marvel Comics X-Men founding member created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, an Omega-level telepath and telekinetic bonded to the Phoenix Force and famous for the Dark Phoenix saga.
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803–1847), pseudonym J. J. Grandville, French caricaturist and illustrator from Nancy; famed for Les Métamorphoses du jour (1829), La Fontaine's Fables, Un autre monde (1844), and Surrealist-recognized fantasy.
Jean Leclant
Jean Leclant (1920–2011) was a French Egyptologist who excavated the pyramid complex of Pepy I at Saqqara, discovering pyramids of previously unknown queens, and studied Meroitic Sudan.
Jean Prouvé
Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) was a French metalworker and designer from Nancy who pioneered prefabricated houses and industrial furniture, insisting he was a builder, not an architect.
Jean Pucelle
Jean Pucelle (Jehan Pucelle), who died in Paris in 1334, was a French manuscript illuminator whose Paris workshop pioneered grisaille figures and three-dimensional settings, and who illuminated the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux.
Jean Puiforcat
Jean Puiforcat (Jean Élysée Puiforcat, 1897–1945) was a French silversmith and designer, the defining French silversmith of the Art Deco period, known for geometric sterling silver.