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Kasli iron casting
Kasli iron casting (Каслинское литьё) is a Russian folk craft of artistic cast-iron sculpture and decorative objects made at the Kasli ironworks in the Southern Urals since 1843.
Kasuga Gongen Genki-e
Kasuga Gongen Genki-e (春日権現験記, also read Kasuga Gongen Reigenki) is a set of twenty illustrated handscrolls of 1309 depicting miracles of the Kasuga deities of Nara.
Katana (DC Comics)
Katana (DC Comics): Tatsu Yamashiro, a DC Comics swordswoman created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo in 1983, wielding the Soultaker Sword that traps souls, including her husband Maseo's; member of the Outsiders, Suicide Squad, and Birds of Prey.
Katarzyna Kobro
Katarzyna Kobro (1898–1951) was a Polish sculptor and theorist of the interwar avant-garde, known for her open, geometric Spatial Compositions redefining sculpture as organized space.
Kate Barry (photographer)
Kate Barry (1967-2013), British photographer, daughter of Jane Birkin and John Barry, known for Paris fashion and celebrity portraiture, melancholy landscapes, the Dinard book with Jean Rolin, the APTE charity, and the posthumous My Own Space retrospective.
Kate Greenaway
Kate Greenaway, full name Catherine Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator whose drawings of children in Regency-style dress reshaped the Victorian picture book. Her first book, Under the Window (1879), was a runaway success.
Katelin Arizmendi
Katelin Arizmendi, also credited as Kate Arizmendi, is an American cinematographer and ASC member known for Cam, Swallow, Monica, National Anthem, Dune: Part One second unit, and Succession Season 4.
Kateryna Bilokur
Kateryna Bilokur (Катерина Білокур, 1900–1961) was a self-taught Ukrainian painter of naïve folk art known for flower compositions; her work was praised by Picasso in Paris in 1954.
Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German printmaker and sculptor of working-class suffering and war grief; creator of A Weavers' Revolt, Peasants' War, and the War cycle; first woman professor of the Prussian Academy of Arts.
Kathleen Scott
Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennet (1878–1947), British sculptor born Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce; widow of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, made his Waterloo Place and Christchurch memorials, portrait busts of Shaw, Yeats, Lloyd George.
Kati Horna
Kati Horna, born Katalin Deutsch (1912 to 2000), was a Hungarian-born Mexican photographer who documented the Spanish Civil War for anarchist publications and later worked in Mexico City.
Katō Tokurō
Katō Tokurō (加藤唐九郎), born Kanō Shōkūrō, was a Japanese ceramic artist from Seto, Aichi, who re-created the Shino and Oribe tea wares of the Momoyama period and surveyed old kiln sites.
Katsukawa school
The Katsukawa school (勝川派, Katsukawa-ha) was a school of Edo-period ukiyo-e artists founded by Katsukawa Shunshō, which dominated late eighteenth-century actor prints with realistic likenesses and pioneered half-body portraits; Hokusai trained there.
Katsukawa Shunshō
Katsukawa Shunshō (勝川春章, 1726–1792) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of Edo who founded the Katsukawa school and transformed kabuki actor prints by depicting each actor's actual facial features.
Kaveh Golestan
Kaveh Golestan (کاوه گلستان) was an Iranian documentary photographer who covered the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War, and both Gulf Wars, winning the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1979.
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai (河鍋暁斎, 1831–1889) was a Japanese painter and printmaker who trained in both the ukiyo-e and Kano-school traditions and became celebrated for satirical, comic, and ghost paintings.
Kawase Hasui
Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水; real name Bunjiro, 1883–1957) was a Japanese woodblock print artist who sketched landscapes across Japan, producing more than 600 prints and leading the shin-hanga movement.
Kaws
Kaws is the professional name of Brian Donnelly (born 1974, Jersey City), a Brooklyn-based American artist known for the COMPANION figure, subvertising, vinyl toys, brand collaborations, and the $14.8m KAWS Album sale.
Kay Nielsen
Kay Rasmus Nielsen (1886–1957) was a Danish illustrator and theater designer known for deluxe fairy-tale books like East of the Sun and West of the Moon and for Disney's Fantasia.
Kay WalkingStick
Kay WalkingStick, born 1935 in Syracuse, New York, is a Cherokee Nation painter and retired Cornell professor whose landscape diptychs stencil Indigenous patterns to declare Native presence on the land.
Kazimir Malevich (Казимир Северинович Малевич)
Kazimir Malevich (Казимир Северинович Малевич), Ukrainian-born Polish avant-garde painter (1878 or 1879-1935), founder of Suprematism, exhibited Black Square at the 0.10 exhibition in Petrograd in December 1915 and wrote 'From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism'.
Kazumasa Nagai
Kazumasa Nagai (永井一正) was a Japanese graphic designer known for geometric abstract posters and the animal-themed LIFE series, and a founding member of Nippon Design Center.
Keep Calm and Carry On
Keep Calm and Carry On is a British motivational poster produced in 1939 for wartime morale, never displayed, and rediscovered in 2000, sparking global merchandising.
Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley (born 1977, Los Angeles) is an American portrait painter known for street-cast Black sitters in Old Master poses. First African American artist to paint an official presidential portrait (Obama, 2018); founder of Black Rock Senegal.
Kei school
The Kei school (慶派) was a Japanese school of Buddhist sculptors, active from the late Heian through the Edo period, best known for realistic Kamakura works by Unkei and Kaikei.
Keisai Eisen
Keisai Eisen (渓斎英泉) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist known for sensual portraits of women and for his share of the Kiso Kaidō landscape series with Hiroshige.
Keith Brymer Jones
Keith Brymer Jones (born 1965), British potter and ceramic designer, judge on The Great Pottery Throw Down since 2015 and creator of the Word Range porcelain homeware sold in over forty countries; Head of Design at MAKE International, author of Boy in a China Shop.
Keith Haring
Keith Haring (1958–1990), American artist and activist of the 1980s New York downtown scene; known for Subway Drawings, Radiant Baby, Pop Shop, AIDS activism, and the Keith Haring Foundation.
Kelly Hoppen
Kelly Hoppen (Kelly Elaine Hoppen), British interior designer born in South Africa, known as the 'Queen of Taupe' for her neutral East-meets-West style; MBE and CBE honoree, Dragons' Den investor, author, and designer of Celebrity Edge and the 2024 M&S homeware range.
Ken Domon
Ken Domon (土門 拳, 1909–1990) was a Japanese photographer called the demon of photography who founded postwar realism and later surveyed Japan's ancient temples and Buddhist statuary.