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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (Кузьма Петров-Водкин, 1878–1939) was a Russian and Soviet painter and teacher, best known for Bathing of the Red Horse and his self-devised spherical perspective.
Kwon Jin-kyu
Kwon Jin-kyu (권진규, 1922–1973) was a Korean sculptor who worked in terracotta and dry lacquer, regarded as a pioneer of figurative realism in modern Korean sculpture.
Kylix (κύλιξ)
Kylix (κύλιξ), plural kylikes: shallow Greek stemmed wine cup with two horizontal handles, standard drinking vessel at the symposium; made in stemmed and stemless forms, often in Attic red-figure by painters such as Douris and Euphronios.
Kym Illman
Kym Illman, Australian entrepreneur from Adelaide, is an accredited F1 photographer and YouTuber who founded Messages On Hold, began shooting Formula 1 in 2017 after Abu Dhabi 2016, and has over 1.7 million social media followers.
L. S. Lowry
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976), English painter of industrial Manchester and Salford with 'matchstick men' figures; rent collector 1910–1952, first London show 1939, RA 1962, declined a knighthood.
L.H.O.O.Q.
L.H.O.O.Q. is Marcel Duchamp's 1919 Dada readymade: a cheap Mona Lisa reproduction with a penciled mustache and goatee, titled with the French pun "Elle a chaud au cul"; later versions include the 1930 replica and 1965 L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved.
L'Absinthe
L'Absinthe, officially Dans un café, is an 1875–76 oil painting by Edgar Degas showing two figures in a Paris café, held at the Musée d'Orsay.
L'Inconnue de la Seine
L'Inconnue de la Seine (Unknown Woman of the Seine) is an enigmatic plaster death mask of a young woman, legend says a drowning victim from 1880s Paris; no identity is documented, and the face became Resusci Anne, the CPR training mannequin.
L'Origine du monde
L'Origine du monde is an 1866 oil painting by the French Realist Gustave Courbet, a close-up of a nude woman's torso and genitals, at the Musée d'Orsince since 1995.
La Calavera Catrina
La Calavera Catrina, originally La Calavera Garbancera, is José Guadalupe Posada's etched female skeleton in a feathered European hat, renamed by Diego Rivera in his 1947 mural and now the iconic symbol of Mexico's Día de Muertos.
La maja desnuda
La maja desnuda (The Nude Maja), Francisco de Goya, 1795-1800, oil on canvas, Prado Museum, Madrid. Twin of La maja vestida; probably commissioned by Manuel Godoy, investigated by the Inquisition in 1815, model's identity unknown.
La Mort de Staline
La Mort de Staline (The Death of Stalin): two-volume French graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin (Dargaud, 2010 and 2012) on Stalin's 1953 death and the succession struggle, adapted into Armando Iannucci's 2017 satirical film banned in Russia.
La Vie (painting)
La Vie (1903) is Pablo Picasso's large Blue Period oil painting, 196.5 x 129.2 cm, in the Cleveland Museum of Art since 1945, painted in Barcelona over the hidden earlier work Last Moments, with the male figure changed from a self-portrait to Casagemas.
Laboratoire Agit'Art
Laboratoire Agit'Art is a Senegalese art collective founded in Dakar in 1974 by Issa Samb and others, known for street performance and its critique of négritude.
Lacquer Coffin of Marquis Yi of Zeng
The Lacquer Coffin of Marquis Yi of Zeng is the double lacquered-wood burial coffin of Marquis Yi of Zeng, from his 433 B.C.E. tomb at Leigudun, Suizhou, Hubei.
Lacquerware
Lacquerware (漆器): objects coated or built from cured lacquer-tree sap, a defining East Asian craft. Chinese examples reach back ~8,000 years (Kuahuqiao bow, Hemudu bowl); Han golden age, carved lacquer, mother-of-pearl inlay, spread to Korea and Japan.
Lado Gudiashvili
Lado Gudiashvili (ლადო გუდიაშვილი; born Vladimir Gudiashvili, 1896–1980) was a Georgian painter, graphic artist, and muralist and a leading Tbilisi modernist, known for Paris-period works like The Fish Alive.
Lady Amelia Spencer
Lady Amelia Spencer, British model and socialite, twin sister of Lady Eliza Spencer, daughter of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, niece of Princess Diana; raised in Cape Town, married Greg Mallett in 2023, signed to Storm Management.
Lady of Auxerre
The Lady of Auxerre (French: Dame d'Auxerre) is a 75 cm limestone statuette of a standing woman, made on Crete around 640–620 BC and now in the Louvre.
Lady Shiva
Lady Shiva (Sandra Wu-San/Woosan) is a DC Comics martial artist and assassin, created by Denny O'Neil and Ric Estrada, first appearing in Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter #5 (1975); mother of Cassandra Cain.
Lady with an Ermine
Lady with an Ermine (Dama con l'ermellino), Leonardo da Vinci's c. 1489-1490 oil on walnut portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, mistress of Ludovico Sforza; only Leonardo in Polish collections, held in Krakow's Czartoryski Museum.
Laetitia Casta
Laetitia Casta, French model and actress born in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, discovered at 15 in Corsica, Guess? face 1994-1999, Marianne de l'an 2000, muse to Herb Ritts and Yves Saint Laurent, César-nominated for Gainsbourg.
Lain Singh Bangdel
Lain Singh Bangdel (1924–2002) was a Nepali novelist, painter, sculptor, and art historian whose realist novels reshaped Nepali fiction and whose photographs helped repatriate looted art.
Lambeth Bible
The Lambeth Bible is a two-volume illuminated Latin giant Bible produced at Canterbury in the mid-twelfth century, regarded as one of the premier English Romanesque giant Bibles.
Lamentation (Nerezi)
The Lamentation, or Threnos, is a fresco of 1164 in the Church of Saint Panteleimon at Gorno Nerezi near Skopje, showing the Virgin mourning over the dead Christ.
Lamidi Fakeye
Lamidi Olonade Fakeye (1928–2009) was a Nigerian Yoruba woodcarver from Ila Orangun, known for carved doors, veranda posts, and figures across a 71-year career, including doors for the Kennedy Center.
Lance Wyman
Lance Wyman, born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1937, is an American graphic designer known for the Mexico 68 Olympics logotype and the Mexico City Metro's station icons.
Land art
Land art, also called Earth art or earthworks, is a late-1960s movement making art in and with the landscape, from Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty to Richard Long's walked lines and James Turrell's Roden Crater.
Landscape painting
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, portrays natural scenery, including mountains, rivers, and forests, as a work's chief subject, emerging independently in China during the Song Dynasty.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a painting long attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, showing Icarus drowning while a ploughman, a shepherd, and an angler work unheeding.