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Le Nain brothers
The Le Nain brothers, Antoine, Louis, and Mathieu, were French painters born in Laon and active in 17th-century Paris, best known for sober, dignified scenes of peasant life.
Lê Phổ
Lê Phổ (1907–2001) was a Vietnamese-French painter and leading figure of modern Vietnamese art, among the first graduates of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi.
Le Rêve (Picasso)
Le Rêve (The Dream) is Picasso's 1932 oil on canvas, 130 × 97 cm, portraying Marie-Thérèse Walter asleep; painted 24 January 1932, sold 1997 for $48.4M and 2013 for $155M, distinct from Picasso's 1935 Le Rêve.
Ledger art
Ledger art is a genre of Plains Indian pictographic drawing, created mostly from about 1860 to 1900, depicting war deeds, hunting, courtship, and ceremony on ledger paper.
Lee Bul
Lee Bul (이불, born 1964) is a South Korean contemporary artist known for her Cyborg and Anagram sculpture series and her early body-centered performances of the late 1980s.
Lee Falk
Lee Falk (Leon Harrison Gross, 1911-1999), American writer and theater producer, created the comic strips Mandrake the Magician (1934) and The Phantom (1936), the first costumed hero, and wrote both until his death.
Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander is an American photographer born in 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington, whose street pictures of the urban social landscape appeared in MoMA's 1967 New Documents show.
Lee Jaffe
Lee Jaffe (born 1950) is an American multimedia artist, photographer, musician, and author, known as the 'white Wailer' who lived with Bob Marley, produced Peter Tosh's Legalize It, and photographed Basquiat.
Lee Jung-seob
Lee Jung-seob (이중섭, 1916–1956) was a Korean painter and leading figure of modern Korean art, best known for his dynamic bull paintings and silver foil paintings made on cigarette-pack tinfoil.
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner (Lena Krassner, 1908-1984), American Abstract Expressionist painter of the Little Image and collage works, wife of Jackson Pollock, later reassessed as a major artist in her own right.
Lee Man Fong
Lee Man Fong (李曼峰, 1913–1988) was a Chinese-born painter active in Indonesia and Singapore who blended Lingnan brushwork with Western oil technique and served President Sukarno as court painter.
Lee Miller
Lee Miller (1907–1977), American photographer and Lady Penrose: Vogue model, Man Ray collaborator and solarization pioneer, and US Army-accredited war correspondent who photographed the Blitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, and Hitler's bathtub.
Lee Ufan
Lee Ufan (이우환, born 1936) is a South Korean painter and sculptor based mainly in Japan, the leading theorist and practitioner of the Mono-ha movement, known for combining stones with steel plates.
Lee Wen
Lee Wen (1957–2019) was a Singaporean performance artist best known for Journey of a Yellow Man, parodying racial assumptions by performing with his body painted yellow.
Lega ivories
Lega ivories are small ivory sculptures by the Lega people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, used as rank insignia and teaching objects in the Bwami initiation society.
Leica M3
The Leica M3 is a 35 mm rangefinder camera introduced by Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany, at Photokina in 1954, the first of the Leica M series.
Leiden Plaque
The Leiden Plaque, also called the Leyden Plate, is a carved jadeite Maya belt ornament dated to 320 CE, one of the earliest securely dated Classic Maya objects.
Leni Klum
Leni Klum (Leni Olumi Klum), German-American model born 2004 in New York City; daughter of Heidi Klum and Flavio Briatore, adopted by Seal. Debuted 2021 on Vogue Germany's cover, walks limitedly (Dolce & Gabbana), fronts Intimissimi, Dior Beauty, and GUESS campaigns.
Lennon Wall
Lennon Wall (連儂牆): public walls for posted political messages, from the original 1980 Prague wall honoring John Lennon to the post-it-note walls of Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement and 2019 protests.
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), Italian humanist, architect, and theorist; wrote De pictura/Della pittura (1435/1436), the first theory of linear perspective, and De re aedificatoria, first architectural treatise since Vitruvius.
Leon Golub
Leon Golub (1922–2004) was an American figurative expressionist painter and printmaker known for politically charged paintings of mercenaries, torturers, and dictators, made by scraping paint with a meat cleaver.
Leonard Freed
Leonard Freed (1929–2006) was an American photojournalist and member of Magnum Photos, known for Black in White America on the civil rights movement and Police Work on the NYPD.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (Lionardo di Ser Piero da Vinci, 1452–1519), Italian Renaissance painter, engineer and scientist from Vinci; painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper; at most fifteen paintings survive, and Salvator Mundi's attribution remains disputed.
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), British-born Mexican painter, sculptor, and writer of the Surrealist movement; partner of Max Ernst, wartime exile, and major figure of Latin American Surrealism in Mexico City.
Leopoldo Méndez
Leopoldo Méndez (1902–1969) was a Mexican printmaker, regarded as the leading figure of twentieth-century Mexican graphic art and principal founder of the Taller de Gráfica Popular.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Pablo Picasso's 1907 oil painting of five women in a brothel, 243.9 x 233.7 cm, in MoMA New York since 1939; proto-Cubist work first exhibited at the 1916 Salon d'Antin.
Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a group of young Post-Impressionist artists, about a dozen, formed in Paris around 1888; members included Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Maurice Denis.
Les XX
Les XX (Les Vingt) was an avant-garde artists' circle founded in Brussels in 1883, whose annual salons showed Impressionist, Neo-Impressionist, and Symbolist art until 1893.
Lesbian erotica
Lesbian erotica: erotic work depicting desire between women, from censored precursors like The Well of Loneliness through 1950s lesbian pulp paperbacks, 1970s feminist publishing, and today's digital F/F market.
Leslie Thompkins
Leslie Thompkins, DC Comics Batman character created by Dennis O'Neil and Dick Giordano, debuting in Detective Comics #457 (1976) "There Is No Hope in Crime Alley!"; a pacifist physician modeled on Dorothy Day, surrogate mother to Bruce Wayne, later Gotham TV's Lee Thompkins.