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Jessie Oonark

Jessie Oonark (ᔨᐊᓯ ᐅᓈᖅ), known as Una, was a Canadian Inuit artist at Baker Lake who began drawing near age 53 and became a leading first-generation Inuit graphic artist.

Jesús Rafael Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto (1923–2005) was a Venezuelan painter and sculptor, born in Ciudad Bolívar and based in Paris, who became a leading figure of kinetic art and created the walk-in Penetrables.

Jewad Selim

Jewad Selim (جواد سليم), 1919 to 1961, was an Iraqi painter and sculptor who founded the Baghdad Modern Art Group and created the Freedom Monument on Tahrir Square.

Jewellery

Jewellery is decorative personal adornment worn on the body, made from metals, gemstones, and other materials; global gold jewelry demand hit a record US$172bn in 2025 despite falling volumes.

Jiading bamboo carving

Jiading bamboo carving (嘉定竹刻) is a Chinese craft tradition founded by Zhu He in Jiading, now a Shanghai district, that became one of two great bamboo carving schools.

Jiangshan Ruci Duojiao

Jiangshan Ruci Duojiao (The Land Is So Rich in Beauty) is a monumental 1959 Chinese landscape painting by Fu Baoshi and Guan Shanyue in the Great Hall of the People, Beijing.

Jiehua

Jiehua (界画), or ruled-line painting, is a genre of traditional Chinese painting in which a straightedge guides the brush to render palaces, boats, and carts precisely.

Jigoku zōshi

Jigoku zōshi (地獄草紙, "Tales of the Buddhist Hells") is a late 12th-century Japanese handscroll depicting seven hells of Buddhist cosmology, designated a National Treasure of Japan and held in the Nara National Museum.

Jim Lee (이용철)

Jim Lee (이용철, born 1964, Seoul) is a Korean-American comic artist and President, Publisher, and CCO of DC Comics (since 2023). Distinct from the Seagate legal officer and the engineering expert of the same name; famous for X-Men #1's record sales, Batman: Hush, WildStorm, and Image Comics.

Jim Marshall

Jim Marshall (1936–2010) was an American photographer based in San Francisco who photographed musicians for 50 years, shooting more than 500 album covers and winning a posthumous honorary Grammy in 2014.

Jim Starlin

Jim Starlin (born 1949, Detroit) is an American comics writer-artist, creator or co-creator of Thanos, Drax, Gamora, Shang-Chi, and Dreadstar, writer of Marvel's Infinity Gauntlet trilogy and DC's A Death in the Family, and a 2017 Eisner Hall of Fame inductee.

Jin Cheng

Jin Cheng (金城, 1878–1926), courtesy name Gongbei, was a Chinese painter, collector, and educator who led Beijing's traditionalist movement and founded the Chinese Painting Society in 1920.

Jindřich Štyrský

Jindřich Štyrský (1899–1942) was a Czech painter, photographer, and leading figure of interwar surrealism, co-founder with Toyen of artificialism and of the Czech Surrealist Group in Prague.

Jing Hao

Jing Hao (荊浩, also Hongguzi) was a Chinese landscape painter and theorist of the late Tang and Five Dynasties, a founder of the Northern landscape school.

Jingdezhen porcelain

Jingdezhen porcelain (景德镇瓷器) is the high-fired porcelain made at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, China, whose kilns have run for a millennium and led world porcelain production from the 16th century.

Jingyeong sansu

Jingyeong sansu (진경산수, "true-view landscape"), also called jingyeong or Dongguk jingyeong, is a late Joseon Korean landscape painting style founded by Jeong Seon that depicts Korea's actual mountains and rivers.

Jinshi style

Jinshi style is a current in Chinese painting that absorbed the qualities of ancient bronze and stone inscriptions into brushwork, chiefly during the Qing dynasty.

Jiucheng Palace Inscription

The Jiucheng Palace Inscription (九成宫醴泉铭) is a 632 Tang dynasty stele with text by Wei Zheng and calligraphy by Ouyang Xun, still a model for regular script.

Jivya Soma Mashe

Jivya Soma Mashe (1934–2018) was an Indian painter of the Warli Adivasi community of Maharashtra who was the first man to take up Warli painting.

Jo-no-mai

Jo-no-mai (序の舞) is a 1936 nihonga painting by the Kyoto artist Uemura Shōen showing a young woman in kimono dancing the slowest section of a Noh dance, held in Tokyo.

Joachim Patinir

Joachim Patinir, also Patenier or Patinier, was a Netherlandish painter active in Antwerp, one of the first artists to make landscape the principal element of a painting.

Joan Miró

Joan Miró (1893–1983), Spanish Catalan painter and sculptor of Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca; Surrealist-affiliated inventor of a personal sign language in painting, ceramics, and tapestry, creator of The Farm and the Constellations, and founder of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (1975).

Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) was an American abstract painter of the second Abstract Expressionist generation, known for large gestural oil paintings, who left 1950s New York acclaim for France.

Joanna Gaines

Joanna Gaines, née Joanna Lee Stevens (born 1978), American interior designer, author, and TV personality; co-host of HGTV's Fixer Upper and co-founder of Waco, Texas's Magnolia brand and Magnolia Network.

Joanne Robertson (artist)

Joanne Robertson (born 1979, Manchester) is a British painter, musician, and poet based in Glasgow, known for Dean Blunt collaborations (The Redeemer, Black Metal 2), solo albums Blue Car and Blurrr, and exhibitions at Company Gallery and Edouard Montassut.

Joaquín Sorolla

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923), Valencian Spanish painter of sunlight and beach scenes; creator of the 14-canvas Vision of Spain at the Hispanic Society of America, New York, and namesake of the Museo Sorolla in Madrid.

Joaquin Torres (comics)

Joaquin Torres, Marvel's second Falcon, a Mexican-American teen transformed by Karl Malus into a human/falcon hybrid with flight, healing, and a psychic link to Redwing; partner to Sam Wilson's Captain America, distinct from the MCU's Air Force officer played by Danny Ramirez.

Joaquín Torres-García

Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949) was a Uruguayan modernist painter, sculptor, and theorist who created Universal Constructivism, a style combining geometric grids with schematic symbols from many cultures.

Jōchō

Jōchō (定朝, died 1057) was a Japanese Buddhist sculptor of the mid-Heian period who perfected joined-wood carving; his seated Amida at Byōdō-in, dedicated 1053, is his only surviving work.

Jock Kinneir

Jock Kinneir, born Richard Jock Kinneir (1917–1994), was a British graphic designer who, with Margaret Calvert, designed the lettering and pictograms of the UK's road signage system.