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Kanayi Kunhiraman
Kanayi Kunhiraman (Malayalam: കാനായി കുഞ്ഞിരാമൻ; born 1937) is an Indian sculptor known for large public works in Kerala, including the Yakshi at Malampuzha Dam Gardens.
Kane Kwei
Kane Kwei, born Seth Kane Kwei, was a Ga carpenter of Teshie, Accra, credited with beginning the 20th-century tradition of "fantasy coffins" shaped like objects tied to the deceased's life.
Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop
Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop is a carpentry studio in Teshie, Ghana, founded in the early 1950s by Seth Kane Kwei, inventor of figurative fantasy coffins.
Kang Yo-bae
Kang Yo-bae (강요배, born 1952) is a South Korean painter of the first minjung art generation, best known for his paintings of the Jeju 4·3 incident.
Kangra Nala-Damayanti series
The Kangra Nala-Damayanti series is a group of Pahari miniature paintings from the Kangra valley, made between about 1775 and the 1820s, illustrating the Mahabharata love story of Nala and Damayanti.
Kangra painting
Kangra painting is a school of Indian miniature painting that developed in the western Himalayan hill states from the mid-18th century, named after the princely state of Kangra.
Kanishka casket
The Kanishka casket is a gilded bronze Buddhist reliquary excavated in 1909 at Shah-ji-ki-Dheri near Peshawar, Pakistan, from the great stupa attributed to Kushan emperor Kanishka I, and now held in the Peshawar Museum.
Kanishka statue, Mathura
The Kanishka statue, Mathura is a headless, life-size red sandstone portrait of the Kushan emperor Kanishka I from the second century CE, held in the Government Museum, Mathura.
Kanō Sanraku
Kanō Sanraku (狩野山楽, 1559–1635) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school who inherited the grand mural style of his teacher Kanō Eitoku and founded the Kyoto branch, the Kyō-Kano.
Kanō Sansetsu
Kanō Sansetsu (狩野山雪, 1589/1590–1651) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school who led the second generation of its Kyōto branch, known for bold decorative paintings like Old Plum.
Kanō school
The Kanō school (狩野派, Kanō-ha) was a hereditary lineage of professional Japanese painters that dominated Japanese painting for roughly 400 years, serving Japan's military governments.
Kanō Takanobu
Kanō Takanobu (狩野孝信, 1571–1618) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school who led its Kyoto house and painted the oldest surviving Kenjō no shōji screens.
Kanō Tan'yū
Kanō Tan'yū (狩野探幽, 1602–1674), personal name Morinobu, was a Japanese painter of the early Edo period who served the Tokugawa shogunate as its official painter and founded the Kajibashi branch of the Kanō school.
Kanō Yasunobu
Kanō Yasunobu (狩野安信, 1613–1685) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school, youngest brother of Kanō Tan'yū, who founded the Nakabashi branch in Edo and served the Tokugawa shogunate.
Kanshitsu
Kanshitsu (乾漆, dry lacquer) is a Japanese sculpting technique that stiffens hemp cloth with lacquer, flourishing in the Nara period (710–794) for Buddhist statues and gigaku masks.
Kara Walker
Kara Walker (born 1969, Stockton, California) is an American artist known for cut-paper silhouette installations on race, gender, slavery; MacArthur Fellow 1997; works include A Subtlety (2014) and Fons Americanus (2019).
Karel Appel
Karel Appel (Christiaan Karel Appel, 1921–2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and printmaker who co-founded the Cobra movement in 1948, known for thick paint and bright color.
Karen Elson
Karen Elson, born Karen Jill Elson in 1979, is an English model and singer-songwriter from Oldham who rose to fame on the 1997 Vogue Italia cover and has released three albums.
Kariye Camii mosaics
The Kariye Camii mosaics are the early 14th-century mosaic decoration of the Chora church in Constantinople, commissioned by Theodore Metochites between about 1315 and 1321.
Karl Blossfeldt
Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932), German sculptor, teacher, and photographer of magnified plant forms; Neue Sachlichkeit pioneer whose 1928 book Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature) made him famous.
Karl Bodmer
Karl Bodmer (Johann Carl Bodmer, 1809–1893) was a Swiss painter known for watercolors of Plains Indian peoples made on a Missouri River expedition from 1832 to 1834.
Karl Bryullov
Karl Bryullov (Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в), born Karl Brulleau, was a leading Russian academic painter whose The Last Day of Pompeii (1833) won him broad European fame.
Karl Drerup
Karl Drerup (1904–2000) was a German-American painter and enamelist, a leader of the mid-century American enameling revival known for Limoges-style painted enamels of landscapes and working people.
Karma Gadri
Karma Gadri is a Tibetan thangka painting tradition of the Karma Kagyu school, founded in 16th-century eastern Tibet by the painter Namkha Tashi and known for spacious, Chinese-influenced landscapes and open, unpainted background space.
Károly Ferenczy
Károly Ferenczy (1862–1917) was a Hungarian painter who became a leading figure of the Nagybánya artists' colony, blending French naturalism with Hungarian subjects and helping found modern Hungarian painting.
Károly Kós
Károly Kós, born Károly Kosch (1883–1977), was a Hungarian architect, writer, and politician who created a national style from Transylvanian folk architecture and led Hungarian cultural life in Romania.
Károly Lotz
Károly Lotz (Lotz Károly, 1833–1904) was a Hungarian painter of German birth, the leading monumental muralist whose frescoes decorate the Budapest Opera House, National Museum, and Parliament.
Karon Davis
Karon Davis (born 1977, Reno, Nevada) is an American sculptor in Los Angeles known for life-size plaster figures addressing race and history, and as co-founder of the Underground Museum with Noah Davis.
Kashmiri style in Himalayan art
The Kashmiri style is an artistic idiom from the Kashmir Valley, lasting from the seventh to the fourteenth century and serving both Hindu and Buddhist religious art.
Kasing Lung (龙家升)
Kasing Lung (龙家升, born 1972) is a Hong Kong-born, Belgian illustrator and toy designer, creator of The Monsters and Labubu; his 2019 Pop Mart licensing deal and 2024 Lisa-driven boom made Labubu a global collectible phenomenon.