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Kim Gyu-jin
Kim Gyu-jin (1868–1933), known by his pen name Haegang, was a Korean calligrapher and painter celebrated for monochrome ink paintings of bamboo and orchids in the literati tradition.
Kim Ki-chang
Kim Ki-chang (김기창), known as Unbo, was a South Korean painter of ink and color who modernized traditional Korean painting despite losing his hearing in childhood.
Kim Myeong-guk
Kim Myeong-guk (김명국, born 1600, death year unknown) was a Korean court painter at the Royal Bureau of Painting, regarded as the peak of the Korean Zhe school.
Kim Tschang-yeul
Kim Tschang-yeul (김창열, 1929–2021) was a Korean painter who played a leading role in Korean Art Informel and became internationally known for his hyperreal water-drop paintings.
Kim Whanki
Kim Whanki (김환기; 1913–1974) was a Korean painter regarded as a pioneer of Korean abstract art, best known for bringing the moon jar into pure abstraction.
Kindred Spirits
Kindred Spirits is an 1849 oil painting by Asher B. Durand showing the painter Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant in the Catskill Mountains, painted as a memorial to Cole.
Kinetic art
Kinetic art is art incorporating real movement, powered by motors, wind, light, magnets, or viewers. Rooted in 1913-1920 experiments by Duchamp, Tatlin, and Gabo, it became an autonomous movement with the 1955 Le Mouvement exhibition in Paris, distinct from Op Art's virtual motion.
Kinkō
Kinkō (金工) is the Japanese art of metalwork, covering casting, forging, and chased decoration; in the sword world it denotes the maker of sword fittings such as the tsuba.
Kishangarh painting
Kishangarh painting is a school of Rajput miniature painting from the court of Kishangarh in Rajasthan, best known for elongated eighteenth-century portraits of Radha and Krishna.
Kishida Ryūsei
Kishida Ryūsei (岸田劉生) was a Japanese Western-style painter, 1891 to 1929, who repeatedly rebuilt his own style and is best known for his portraits of his daughter Reiko.
Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki
Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki (北野天神縁起絵巻) is a set of Japanese narrative handscrolls recounting the life, exile, and vengeful spirit of the poet Sugawara no Michizane.
Kitaōji Rosanjin
Kitaōji Rosanjin (北大路魯山人, born Fusajirō, 1883–1959) was a Japanese ceramicist, calligrapher, and restaurateur, chef of Hoshigaoka Saryō in Tokyo, who turned to pottery, holding that tableware is the kimono of cuisine.
Kitty Pryde
Kitty Pryde (Katherine Anne Pryde, Shadowcat) is a Marvel Comics X-Men superhero created by Claremont and Byrne in 1979, a Jewish teen from Deerfield, Illinois who phases through solid matter and became the X-Men's first teenage member.
Kiyoshi Saitō
Kiyoshi Saitō (斎藤清, 1907–1997) was a Japanese woodblock printmaker, a central figure in the sōsaku hanga creative print movement, known for his Winter in Aizu prints.
Kizaemon Ido tea bowl
The Kizaemon Ido (喜左衛門井戸) is a 16th-century Korean ōido tea bowl, the only Korean tea bowl made a National Treasure, now kept at Kōhōan in Kyoto.
Klaus Moje
Klaus Moje (1936–2016) was a German-born glass artist, founding head of the Glass Workshop at the Canberra School of Art and a pioneer of kiln-formed mosaic glass.
Klosterneuburg Altarpiece
The Klosterneuburg Altar, usually called the Verdun Altar (Verduner Altar), is a Romanesque enamel altarpiece by Nicholas of Verdun in Klosterneuburg Abbey, Austria, completed in 1181.
Kōami school
The Kōami school (幸阿弥家) was a hereditary Japanese lineage of maki-e lacquer artists serving as official maki-e masters from the Muromachi period through the Edo period.
Kōfuku-ji octagonal lantern
The Kōfuku-ji octagonal lantern (Kondō tōrō, gilt-bronze lantern) is a National Treasure bronze lantern cast in 816 for the Nanendō hall of Kōfuku-ji in Nara, Japan.
Koh Ker style
The Koh Ker style is a Khmer art and architectural style of the second quarter of the 10th century, defined by large-scale, dynamic sculpture under King Jayavarman IV.
Koh-i-Noor
Koh-i-Noor (Mountain of Light), a 106-carat diamond in the British Crown Jewels at the Tower of London; looted by Nader Shah in 1739, surrendered by Duleep Singh under the 1849 Treaty of Lahore, claimed by India, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
Kokawadera Engi Emaki
Kokawadera Engi Emaki (粉河寺縁起絵巻), also read Kokawa-dera Engi Emaki, is a late 12th-century Japanese illustrated handscroll depicting the origin legend of Kokawadera, a Kannon pilgrimage temple in Wakayama Prefecture.
Koloman Moser
Koloman Moser, known as Kolo Moser, was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, and designer who co-founded the Vienna Secession in 1897 and the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903.
Komnenian art
Komnenian art is the art of the Byzantine Empire under the Komnenian dynasty, from 1081 to 1185, known for classical elegance in mosaics and icons.
Kōmokuten of Kōfuku-ji
Kōmokuten (広目天) is a wooden standing statue of Virūpākṣa, the western of the Four Heavenly Kings, carved from one katsura trunk in the Heian period and kept at Kōfuku-ji in Nara.
Kongo crucifixes
Kongo crucifixes, known as Nkangi Kiditu, are brass crosses made in the Kingdom of Kongo from the 16th to 19th centuries, blending Christian and Kongo imagery.
Kongō Rikishi of Tōdai-ji
The Kongō Rikishi of Tōdai-ji, also called the Nio statues, are a pair of monumental wooden guardians carved in 1203 for the temple's Great South Gate in Nara.
Konjikidō
Konjikidō (金色堂), or Hikaridō, is a gilded funerary hall at Chūson-ji temple in Hiraizumi, Japan, completed in 1124 by Fujiwara no Kiyohira as a mausoleum for his family.
Konstantin Korovin
Konstantin Korovin (Константин Коровин; 1861–1939) was a Russian painter and theater designer regarded as the leading representative of Russian impressionism and chief artist of the Bolshoi Theatre.
Konstantin Somov
Konstantin Somov, also known as Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Константин Андреевич Сомов), was a Russian painter and founding member of Mir Iskusstva, best known for The Lady in Blue.