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Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist born in Lewiston, Maine, whose Berlin War Motifs fused Synthetic Cubism with German Expressionist color.
Maurice de Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958), French self-taught painter, Fauvism founder and School of Chatou partner of André Derain; exhibited in the 1905 Salon d'Automne 'cage aux fauves', later hostile to Cubism.
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann (1884–1950) was a German painter known for figurative, narrative works like the triptych Departure, who fled Nazi Germany and died in New York.
Max Bill
Max Bill was a Swiss architect, painter, and designer trained at the Bauhaus who became a leading proponent of Concrete Art and co-founded the Ulm school of design.
Max Ernst
Max Ernst (1891–1976), German-born painter, sculptor, and Dada and Surrealist pioneer. Invented frottage and grattage and made collage novels such as Une semaine de bonté; persecuted as a degenerate artist, exiled to the United States 1941–1951.
Mikhail Larionov
Mikhail Larionov (Михаил Ларионов, 1881–1964) was a Russian painter and leader of the Russian avant-garde who created Rayonism, an early abstract style, and designed Ballets Russes stage sets in France.
Mikhail Matyushin
Mikhail Matyushin (Михаил Матюшин, 1861–1934) was a Russian painter, violinist, and composer of the avant-garde, best known for the 1913 opera Victory over the Sun.
Milena Pavlović-Barili
Milena Pavlović-Barili (Милена Павловић Барили, 1909–1945) was a Serbian painter, illustrator, and poet who worked in Belgrade, Paris, and New York, known for dreamlike paintings blending reality and imagination.
Milton Avery
Milton Avery (1885–1965) was an American painter of figural, genre, and landscape subjects in simplified forms and flat color, influencing Rothko and Color Field painters.
Mohamed Racim
Mohamed Racim (محمد راسم, 1896–1975) was an Algerian painter born in the Casbah of Algiers who, with his brother Omar, founded the Algerian school of miniature painting, introducing depth into Islamic miniatures.
Mykhailo Boichuk
Mykhailo Boichuk (Михайло Бойчук) was a Ukrainian monumental painter whose school, Boichukism, revived Byzantine and folk traditions; he was executed in Stalin's purges in 1937.
N. S. Bendre
N. S. Bendre (Narayan Shridhar Bendre, 1910–1992) was an Indian painter who founded the Baroda Group and won the National Award for his cubist painting Thorn.
Nam Sơn
Nam Sơn, real name Nguyễn Vạn Thọ (1890–1973), was a Vietnamese painter who co-founded the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi with Victor Tardieu in 1924.
Nandalal Bose (নন্দলাল বসু)
Nandalal Bose (নন্দলাল বসু), 1882–1966, Bengal School painter and principal of Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan; creator of the 1938 Haripura posters, the Dandi March linocut, and the 22 illustrations of India's Constitution.
Natalia Goncharova
Natalia Goncharova (Наталья Гончарова, 1881–1962) was a Russian painter and stage designer who led the Moscow avant-garde and became a principal designer for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
Nguyễn Gia Trí
Nguyễn Gia Trí (1908–1993) was a Vietnamese painter widely regarded as the father of modern Vietnamese lacquer painting, which he raised from decorative craft to fine art.
Nguyễn Phan Chánh
Nguyễn Phan Chánh (1892–1984) was a Vietnamese painter who founded the modern tradition of Vietnamese silk painting, gaining fame at the 1931 Paris Exposition Coloniale.
Nguyễn Sáng
Nguyễn Sáng (1923–1988) was a Vietnamese painter counted among the four pillars of modern Vietnamese painting, known for lacquer works such as Party Admission at Điện Biên Phủ.
Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, 1874–1947), Russian painter, stage designer, and archaeologist known for Himalayan tempera landscapes, Diaghilev's Rite of Spring designs, Central Asian expeditions, and the 1935 Roerich Pact protecting cultural monuments.
Norman Lindsay
Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay (1879–1969) was an Australian artist, cartoonist, and writer for The Bulletin, best known for his 1918 children's classic The Magic Pudding.
Oscar Howe
Oscar Howe, known to his people as Mazuha Hokshina, was a Yanktonai Dakota painter from South Dakota whose 1958 letter challenging defined "Indian art" opened the field to individual expression.
Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger (June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967), German-American abstract animator and painter, pioneer of visual music and Motion Painting No. 1 (1947), Lumigraph inventor, Fantasia contributor.
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), Austrian-born Expressionist painter, printmaker, poet, and playwright; creator of Die träumenden Knaben (1908), psychological portraits, works confiscated as degenerate in 1937, exile in London, later Switzerland.
Oswaldo Guayasamín
Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999) was an Ecuadorian painter, sculptor, and muralist considered the leading exponent of indigenist expressionism, known for the series Huacayñán and La Edad de la Ira.
Otto Dix
Otto Dix, full name Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix, was a German painter and printmaker known for unsparing depictions of war and a leading New Objectivity figure.
Pablita Velarde
Pablita Velarde, whose Tewa name Tse Tsan means "Golden Dawn," was a Tewa painter from Santa Clara Pueblo known for paintings of Pueblo life made with hand-ground earth pigments.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor, founder with Georges Braque of Cubism. Key facts: Blue and Rose periods 1901–1906, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907, Guernica 1937, career centered in France.
Pan Tianshou
Pan Tianshou (潘天寿, 1897–1971) was a Chinese painter and art educator known for freehand flower-and-bird painting and finger painting, and one of the Four Masters of twentieth-century Chinese painting.
Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), Belgian painter of dreamlike nocturnal scenes with nude women, skeletons, and railway stations; associated with Belgian Surrealism alongside Magritte but never a formal member of any Surrealist group.
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (1879–1940) was a Swiss-German painter and Bauhaus teacher whose color-centered, small-scale work, shaped by his 1914 Tunisia journey, made him a founding figure of classical modernism.