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Kendalle Getty
Kendalle Getty (born 1988, Los Angeles) is an American multimedia artist, daughter of Gordon Getty and Cynthia Beck, known for the installations Hostile Home and Mirror of Influence, wax candle self-portraits, mirror works like Portrait of a Narcissist, the Poetry Brothel, and Pleiades Trust litigation with adviser Marlena Sonn.
Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark (1903–1983), Baron Clark of Saltwood, British art historian, youngest Director of the National Gallery (1934–45), and presenter of the 1969 BBC series Civilisation; author of The Nude and Landscape into Art.
Kenny Howard
Kenny Howard, aka Von Dutch, Kenneth Robert Howard (1929–1992), American pinstriper, motorcycle mechanic, and Kustom Kulture founder from Los Angeles; creator of the flying eyeball, later namesake of the Von Dutch fashion brand.
Kenojuak Ashevak
Kenojuak Ashevak (ᑭᓄᐊᔪᐊ ᐊᓯᕙ; 1927–2013) was an Inuit artist from Kinngait, Nunavut, celebrated for prints of birds and spirit figures; her 1960 print The Enchanted Owl became one of Canada's most recognizable artworks.
Kent Monkman
Kent Monkman is a Cree artist born in 1965, known for large-scale paintings that reframe colonialism and Indigenous experience, often through his alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
Kent State shootings photograph
The Kent State shootings photograph is a 1970 image by John Paul Filo of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over Jeffrey Miller, winning the 1971 Pulitzer Prize.
Kenta Shinohara (篠原健太)
Kenta Shinohara (篠原健太), Japanese manga artist born 1974, creator of Sket Dance, Astra Lost in Space (Manga Taishō 2019), and Witch Watch in Weekly Shonen Jump.
Kentaro Miura (三浦建太郎)
Kentaro Miura (三浦建太郎, 1966–2021) was the Japanese manga artist who created the dark fantasy Berserk, serialized from 1989. Died of acute aortic dissection; series continues under Kouji Mori and Studio Gaga.
Kermit Love
Kermit Love (Kermit Ernest Hollingshead Love, 1916-2008), American costume designer and puppet maker who built Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus, and Oscar the Grouch for Sesame Street with Jim Henson, played Willy the hot dog vendor, and designed for Balanchine.
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall (born 1955) is an American painter, based in Chicago, who places emphatic jet-black figures at the center of large-scale paintings that address Black absence from Western history painting.
Kevin Eastman
Kevin Eastman (born 1962, Portland, Maine) is the American comic artist who, with Peter Laird, co-created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, self-published TMNT #1 in May 1984, founded Tundra Publishing, published Heavy Metal, and later created The Last Ronin and Drawing Blood.
Kevyn Aucoin
Kevyn Aucoin (1962–2002), American celebrity makeup artist from Shreveport, Louisiana; author of Making Faces and Face Forward, pioneer of mainstream contouring, and founder of the 2001 Kevyn Aucoin Beauty cosmetics line.
Kewpie
Kewpie: cherubic cupid-like cartoon character created by Rose O'Neill, debuted in Ladies' Home Journal December 1909; doll patented 1913, made in German bisque from 1912; also Japan's KEWPIE Mayonnaise brand.
Keystone symbol
Keystone symbol: the wedge-shaped crown stone of an arch, emblem of cohesion and completion; Keystone State nickname of Pennsylvania, Royal Arch and Mark Masonry emblem, heraldic charge.
Khakhuli Triptych
The Khakhuli Triptych (ხახულის ღვთისმშობლის კარედი) is a monumental medieval Georgian gold-and-enamel triptych icon of the Virgin, embellished by King Davit IV the Builder and kept in Tbilisi.
Khien Yimsiri
Khien Yimsiri (เขียน ยิ้มศิริ, 1922–1971) was a pioneering Thai sculptor and influential teacher at Silpakorn University, known for works like Musical Rhythm that blended Sukhothai tradition with Western modernist form.
Khmer bronze casting
Khmer bronze casting is the tradition of casting copper-alloy sculpture and ritual objects in Cambodia and neighboring regions, from prehistoric times through the Angkorian empire, using the lost-wax method.
Khmer stone carving
Khmer stone carving is the sculptural tradition of Cambodia's Khmer civilization, in which images of Hindu and Buddhist deities were carved from sandstone from the sixth to fifteenth centuries.
Khokhloma
Khokhloma (Хохлома) is a Russian folk craft of painting and lacquering wooden tableware in red, black, and gold, arising in the second half of the 17th century near Nizhny Novgorod.
Khorasan school of metalwork
The Khorasan school of metalwork produced bronze and brass wares inlaid with silver, copper, or gold in eastern Iran, mainly at Herat, until the Mongol invasion of 1219.
Khotanese art
Khotanese art is the pre-Islamic Buddhist painting and sculpture from the Khotan oasis in present-day Xinjiang, China, a southern Silk Road kingdom known for Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki
Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki (吉備大臣入唐絵巻, "Minister Kibi's Journey to Tang China") is a late twelfth-century Japanese narrative handscroll held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Kichijōten of Tōdai-ji Hokke-dō
The Kichijōten of Tōdai-ji Hokke-dō (吉祥天, also read Kisshōten) is an 8th-century Japanese clay sculpture of the goddess of fortune, made around 746 and now kept in the Tōdai-ji Museum in Nara.
Kid Eternity
Kid Eternity is a Quality Comics superhero created by Otto Binder and Sheldon Moldoff in Hit Comics #25 (1942), a boy killed before his time who summons historical figures by saying "Eternity"; later DC's Kit Freeman and Morrison's 1991 agent of Chaos.
Kid Flash
Kid Flash is the DC Comics speedster legacy identity, first held by Wally West (The Flash #110, 1959), later Bart Allen, and currently Wallace "Ace" West (Flash Annual #3, 2014), sidekick and successor to the Flash.
Kikuji Kawada
Kikuji Kawada (川田喜久治, born 1933) is a Japanese photographer and co-founder of the VIVO agency, best known for the 1965 photobook Chizu (The Map), a record of Japan's wartime memory.
Kilim motifs
Kilim motifs are the geometric patterns of kilim (gelim) flat-woven tapestry rugs of Anatolia, Iran, the Balkans, and Central Asia. Slit-weave technique limits designs to triangles, diamonds, and stepped forms; named motifs like çengel and elibelinde carry regionally varying meanings.
Kill Six Billion Demons
Kill Six Billion Demons (KSBD, K6BD) is an action-fantasy webcomic by Abbadon (Tom Parkinson-Morgan), launched 2013, following Allison Ruth, holder of the Key of Kings, in Throne, the multiverse seat ruled by the Seven.
Killer Croc
Killer Croc (Waylon Jones), also King of the Sewer, is a DC Comics Batman supervillain created by Gerry Conway and Gene Colan, debuting Detective Comics #523 (1983); a genetically crocodilian Gotham sewers-dweller and Suicide Squad member.
Kim Bok-jin
Kim Bok-jin (김복진, pen name Jeonggwan; 1901–1940) was a Korean sculptor, art critic, and independence activist, the first Korean to graduate from the sculpture department of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts.