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Jun ware
Jun ware (钧窑) is a Chinese stoneware from the late Northern Song to early Ming dynasty, made in Yuzhou, Henan, and known for opalescent blue glazes.
June Schwarcz
June Schwarcz (1918–2015) was an American enamelist in Sausalito, California, who made over 2,500 works, building sculptural copper foil vessels hardened in an electroplating tank.
Junji Ito (伊藤潤二)
Junji Ito (伊藤潤二, born 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist, creator of Tomie, Uzumaki, and Gyo, a four-time Eisner Award winner and 2025 Eisner Hall of Fame inductee known as the Stephen King of Japan.
Jusepe de Ribera
Jusepe de Ribera, also José de Ribera, called Lo Spagnoletto (1591–1652), Spanish painter and etcher active in Naples; Caravaggesque tenebrism, Spanish viceregal patrons, Certosa di San Martino and San Gennaro commissions, The Clubfoot (1642).
Jwan Yosef
Jwan Yosef (born 1984) is a Syrian-born, Swedish-raised painter, sculptor and installation artist based in Los Angeles; Central Saint Martins MFA, Bomb Factory co-founder, Giza Plateau exhibitor, and art collector with husband Ricky Martin.
Jyoti Bhatt
Jyoti Bhatt, born 1934 in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, is an Indian painter, printmaker, and photographer who taught at M.S. University in Vadodara and introduced intaglio printmaking to the Baroda School.
K. C. S. Paniker
K. C. S. Paniker (Kovalezhi Cheerampathoor Sankaran Paniker, 1911–1977) was an Indian painter who led the Madras Art Movement and founded the Cholamandal Artists' Village.
K. G. Subramanyan
K. G. Subramanyan (Kalpathi Ganpathi Subramanyan; 1924–2016) was an Indian painter, muralist, sculptor, writer, and teacher who shaped post-independence Indian art at Santiniketan and Baroda.
K. H. Ara
K. H. Ara (Krishnaji Howlaji Ara, 1914–1985) was an Indian painter and a founding member of the Progressive Artists' Group, known for still lifes and female nudes.
K. Laxma Goud
K. Laxma Goud, full name Kalal Laxma Goud, is an Indian painter and printmaker born in 1940, known for figurative works joining rural Telangana imagery with eroticism.
K. Venkatappa
K. Venkatappa (ಕೆ. ವೆಂಕಟಪ್ಪ) was an Indian painter, sculptor, and veena player from Mysore who trained under Abanindranath Tagore, painted watercolor landscapes and mythological scenes, and is memorialized in Bangalore's Venkatappa Art Gallery.
Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder)
Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder), Lord Kevin Reginald Plunder, is a Marvel Comics jungle hero protecting the Antarctic Savage Land with the sabertooth Zabu; debuted in X-Men #10 (1965), reviving a 1936 pulp character, and gained land-based powers in the 2021 Thompson miniseries.
Kaapa Tjampitjinpa
Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, also known as Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa, was an Aboriginal Australian painter, principal artist of the 1971 Honey Ant Mural at Papunya and first chairman of Papunya Tula Artists.
Kaare Klint
Kaare Klint was a Danish architect and furniture designer, a founder of modern Danish design and first docent of the Royal Danish Academy's furniture school.
Kachina doll
A kachina doll, properly a Hopi katsintihu, is a carved cottonwood-root figure of a Katsina spirit, traditionally given to Hopi women and children during ceremonies.
Kachō-ga
Kachō-ga (花鳥画, "bird-and-flower painting") is a Japanese painting genre depicting birds and flowers, transmitted from China around the fourteenth century and common from Zen ink painting to ukiyo-e prints.
Kaihō Yūshō
Kaihō Yūshō (海北友松, 1533–1615) was a Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods, known for forceful ink painting and reduced-brush figures, who founded the Kaihō school.
Kaj Franck
Kaj Franck (1911–1989) was a Finnish glass and ceramic designer known for the Kilta and Teema tableware and Kartio glassware, and long artistic director of Arabia and Nuutajärvi.
Kakatiya Kala Thoranam
Kakatiya Kala Thoranam is a set of four carved granite gateways from the Swayambhu temple at Warangal Fort in Telangana, India, built under the Kakatiya dynasty, and now an emblem of Telangana state.
Kakemono
Kakemono, also called kakejiku, is a Japanese hanging scroll bearing a painting or calligraphy on paper or silk; of Chinese origin, it reached Japan in the sixth century with Buddhism.
Kakiemon
Kakiemon (柿右衛門) is the hereditary name of a family of Arita potters in Japan, active since the 17th century, known for red-decorated overglaze enamel porcelain.
Kala Bhavana
Kala Bhavana, the Institute of Fine Arts, is the fine arts faculty of Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, West Bengal, founded by Rabindranath Tagore in 1919.
Kalighat painting
Kalighat painting, or Kalighat pat, is a Bengali watercolor style developed around 1830 near Kolkata's Kali temple, moving from Hindu deities to satirical city scenes.
Kamakura sculpture
Kamakura sculpture (鎌倉彫刻) is the Buddhist sculpture of Japan's Kamakura period, 1185 to 1333, a powerful realism favored by the samurai and led by Unkei's Kei school.
Kamal al-Din Behzad
Kamal al-Din Behzad (کمالالدین بهزاد), c. 1455–1535, was a Persian miniature painter who led the royal workshops of Herat and Tabriz and shaped Persian, Mughal, and Ottoman art.
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag (كمالا إبراهيم إسحاق; born 1939, Omdurman) is a Sudanese painter who helped found the Khartoum School and cofounded the Crystalists in the mid-1970s.
Kamandi
Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth: DC Comics post-apocalyptic hero created by Jack Kirby, first appearing in Kamandi #1 (October-November 1972); a boy survivor of the Great Disaster in a world of intelligent humanoid animals on Earth-51.
Kamasan painting
Kamasan painting, also called wayang Kamasan, is a traditional Balinese narrative painting style from Kamasan village in Klungkung, Bali, depicting Hindu epics in flat shadow-puppet figures.
Kamisaka Sekka
Kamisaka Sekka (神坂雪佳, real name Yoshitaka, 1866–1942) was a Japanese designer and painter in Kyoto who carried the Rimpa decorative tradition into modern design and is seen as a pioneer of Japanese modern design.
Kan'ei reconstruction of Nikkō Tōshō-gū
The Kan'ei reconstruction (寛永の大造替, Kan'ei no daizōtai) was the 1634–1636 rebuilding of Nikkō Tōshō-gū, Tokugawa Ieyasu's mausoleum shrine, by shogun Iemitsu, creating the lavishly decorated complex that stands today.