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José Guadalupe Posada
José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) was a Mexican printmaker who produced an estimated 20,000 prints for the Mexico City penny press; his satirical calaveras, including La Catrina, became symbols of the Day of the Dead.
José Joya
José Tanig Joya (1931–1995) was a Filipino painter and educator who pioneered abstract expressionism in the Philippines, represented it at the 1964 Venice Biennale, and was named National Artist for Visual Arts in 2003.
José Luis Cuevas
José Luis Cuevas (1934–2017) was a Mexican painter, draftsman, and engraver known for neo-figurative ink drawings of distorted, marginalized figures, and a leading figure of the Generación de la Ruptura.
José María Velasco
José María Velasco, full name José María Velasco Gómez, was a Mexican landscape painter and naturalist whose views of the Valley of Mexico became images of national identity.
Josef Albers
Josef Albers (1888–1976), German-born American painter and educator of the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale; creator of Homage to the Square and author of Interaction of Color (1963).
Josef Čapek
Josef Čapek (1887–1945) was a Czech painter, illustrator, and writer who, with his brother Karel, led interwar Czechoslovak culture and proposed the word robot for the play R.U.R.
Josef Hoffmann
Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) was an Austrian architect and designer who co-founded the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte, designed the Brussels Stoclet Palace, and championed the Gesamtkunstwerk ideal.
Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka, Czech-born French photographer (born 1938), Magnum member; known for Gypsies, the anonymous 1968 Prague invasion pictures, Exiles, panoramic landscapes (The Black Triangle), and Wall.
Josef Mánes
Josef Mánes (1820–1871) was a Czech painter and printmaker from Prague, best known for the calendar plate of the Prague Astronomical Clock and his folkloric works.
Josef Müller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914–1996) was a Swiss graphic designer and leading figure of the International Typographic Style, known for his geometric Tonhalle concert posters and book Grid Systems in Graphic Design.
Josef Sudek
Josef Sudek (1896–1976) was a Czech photographer known as the "Poet of Prague," famous for images of Prague, still lifes, and The Windows of My Studio series.
Joseon blue-and-white porcelain
Joseon blue-and-white porcelain (cheonghwa baekja, 청화백자) is Korean white porcelain decorated with cobalt underglaze, produced at official kilns for the royal court from the mid-15th century.
Joseon court documentary painting
Joseon court documentary painting (gungjung girokhwa, 궁중기록화) recorded Korean royal ceremonies and court events under the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910); a famous example depicts King Jeongjo's 1795 procession to Hwaseong Fortress.
Joseon dragon jar
The Joseon dragon jar is a Korean white porcelain jar, made from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries and painted with a dragon chasing a flaming jewel, used in royal rituals.
Joseon genre painting
Joseon genre painting (풍속화, pungsokhwa) is the Korean tradition of painting the everyday work, leisure, and customs of ordinary people, which flourished from about 1700 to 1850 under court painters Kim Hongdo and Shin Yunbok.
Joseon ink bamboo painting
Joseon ink bamboo painting, mukjukdo (묵죽도), is a Korean monochrome ink painting genre of the Joseon dynasty and one of the literati Four Gentlemen subjects.
Joseon tiger paintings
Joseon tiger paintings are depictions of tigers produced in Korea during the Joseon dynasty, believed to ward off evil spirits; the best-known form is the magpie-and-tiger painting, hojakdo.
Joseon white porcelain
Joseon white porcelain (조선백자, baekja) is the white ceramic produced in Korea during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), which became the country's most popular ceramic type.
Joseon White Porcelain Jar with Dragon Design
A Joseon white porcelain jar with dragon design, commonly called a dragon jar, is a Korean jar of the Joseon dynasty painted with a dragon in underglaze cobalt blue or iron-brown.
Joseon wooden Buddhist sculpture
Joseon wooden Buddhist sculpture is the body of carved wooden Buddha and bodhisattva images made in Korea during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), mostly after 1600 and produced by monk-sculptors.
Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys (1921–1986), German artist of Krefeld origin based in Düsseldorf, sculptor, Fluxus performer, and social sculpture theorist; known for fat and felt works, 7000 Oaks, and "Everyone is an artist."
Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) was a self-taught American artist who pioneered assemblage, best known for his glass-fronted shadow boxes built from found objects, and who also made experimental films.
Joseph Ducreux
Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802) was a French portraitist, pupil of La Tour, First Painter to Marie-Antoinette, famous for expressive self-portraits and the 2009 Archaic Rap meme.
Joseph Maria Olbrich
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867–1908) was an Austrian architect and designer, a leading Art Nouveau figure who designed the Vienna Secession building and most of the Mathildenhöhe artists' colony in Darmstadt, including the Wedding Tower.
Joseph Ndandarika
Joseph Ndandarika (1940–May 1991) was a Zimbabwean sculptor and painter counted among the First Generation of Shona stone sculptors, whose figurative work drew on Shona spiritual beliefs and everyday life.
Joseph Stella
Joseph Stella, born Giuseppe Michele Stella (1877–1946), was an Italian-born American painter who adapted European Futurism to portray New York's industrial cityscape, above all the Brooklyn Bridge.
Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright of Derby was an English painter, born and based in Derby, whose candlelit pictures of science and industry made him the painter of the Industrial Revolution.
Josephine Hopper
Josephine "Jo" Verstille Nivison Hopper (1883–1968), American watercolorist, wife and model of Edward Hopper; managed his career, kept his ledgers, and was rediscovered as an artist after 1980.
Josephine Skriver
Josephine Skriver is a Danish model best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2016 to 2021 and for walking more than 300 shows for major fashion houses.
Josetsu
Josetsu (如拙) was a Japanese Zen painter-monk active in the early 1400s at the Shokoku-ji in Kyoto, best known for the National Treasure painting Catching a Catfish with a Gourd.