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Mangbetu art
Mangbetu art is the sculptural and ceramic tradition of the Mangbetu peoples of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, known for harps, jars, and hairpins with elongated human heads.
Manhua (漫画)
Manhua (漫画) is the Chinese word for comics, covering works from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, distinct from Japanese manga and Korean manhwa. Known for full-color vertical-scroll webcomics, cultivation and wuxia genres, and platforms like KuaiKan and Tencent Comics.
Manjit Bawa
Manjit Bawa (1941–2008) was an Indian modernist painter known for rounded, weightless figures of Hindu, Sikh, and Sufi mythological subjects on flat, luminous monochrome color fields.
Manneken Pis
Manneken Pis (Manneken-Pis), a 55.5 cm bronze fountain statue of a urinating boy by Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder (1619) at Rue de l'Étuve, Brussels; original in the Brussels City Museum since 1966, with a copy on the fountain and over 1,000 costumes.
Mannerism
Mannerism (maniera): European art style and period c. 1520–1600 between High Renaissance and Baroque, marked by elongated figures, artifice, and complex compositions, spreading from Italy to courts like Fontainebleau and Prague.
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002) was a Mexican photographer, regarded as a founder of modern photography and the leading Latin American photographer of the twentieth century.
Manuel Mendive
Manuel Mendive (Manuel Mendive Hoyo, born 1944 in Havana) is a Cuban painter, sculptor, and performance artist whose work draws on Santería, making him a leading Afro-Cuban artist.
Manuel Panselinos
Manuel Panselinos (Μανουὴλ Πανσέληνος) is the traditional name of a Byzantine painter of the late 13th and early 14th century, credited with the Protaton frescoes at Karyes on Mount Athos.
Manuel Rodríguez Lozano
Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (died 1971) was a Mexican painter and muralist of the Contemporáneos group, best known for the mural La piedad en el desierto (1942), painted in prison.
Many Mansions
Many Mansions is a 1994 painting by Kerry James Marshall showing three young Black men tending a garden outside the Stateway Gardens housing project in Chicago.
Mao (Warhol)
Mao (Warhol): Andy Warhol's 1972–1973 series of 199 silkscreen paintings and ten screenprints of Mao Zedong, based on Zhang Zhenshi's official portrait from the Little Red Book, begun after Nixon's 1972 China trip.
Maple Leaves
Maple Leaves (紅葉, momiji) are the red autumn foliage of Japanese maples, a central motif in Japanese seasonal culture and painting from the sixteenth century onward.
Mapungubwe gold rhinoceros
The Mapungubwe gold rhinoceros is a gold foil figurine from a royal grave on Mapungubwe Hill, South Africa, excavated in 1933 and now a national symbol.
Marble sculpture
Marble sculpture is three-dimensional art carved from marble, a metamorphic rock valued since antiquity for its fine grain and high polish, and shaped by cutting material away.
Marc Chagall (מוישע סעגאַל)
Marc Chagall (Moishe Shagal, מוישע סעגאַל), 1887-1985, Russian-born French modernist painter from Vitebsk; known for I and the Village, the Paris Opera ceiling, Jerusalem stained glass, and the Nice museum.
Marc Riboud
Marc Riboud (1923–2016) was a French photojournalist and Magnum Photos member best known for his 1953 photo of a painter on the Eiffel Tower and his 1967 photo of a flower girl.
Marcel Broodthaers
Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976) was a Belgian poet and self-taught conceptual artist, best known for the Musée d'Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, founded in his Brussels apartment in 1968.
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), French-born American artist of Dada and Cubism, creator of the readymades and Fountain (1917, signed R. Mutt), The Large Glass, and Box in a Valise; forerunner of Conceptual art.
Marcos Zapata
Marcos Zapata, also known as Marcos Sapaca Inca, was a Peruvian painter of the Cuzco School, known for his 1753 Last Supper in Cusco Cathedral featuring guinea pig.
Marella Agnelli
Marella Agnelli, née Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto (1927–2019), Italian aristocrat and style icon, wife of Fiat chief Gianni Agnelli, muse of Avedon, textile designer, and patron of the Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin.
Margaret Calvert
Margaret Calvert (born 1936) is a British graphic designer and typographer who with Jock Kinneir created Britain's road signs, including the Transport typeface and pictograms still in use.
Margaret De Patta
Margaret De Patta, born Margaret Strong (1903–1964), was an American modernist jewelry designer in San Francisco known for her optical 'opticut' stones and sculpture-like pieces.
Margaret Keane
Margaret Keane (1927–2022), American painter of big-eyed waifs; husband Walter Keane claimed her work until her 1970 revelation and Hawaii courtroom paint-off; subject of Tim Burton's Big Eyes.
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864–1933) was a Scottish artist and designer, a founding member of "The Four" whose gesso panels helped define the Glasgow Style of Art Nouveau.
Margareta Magnusson
Margareta Magnusson was a Swedish artist and author whose debut book, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, published in 2017, turned döstädning into an international bestseller.
María Izquierdo
María Izquierdo (1902–1955) was a Mexican painter from San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, and with Frida Kahlo one of the first Mexican women artists to gain international recognition.
Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez (Po've'ka), a Tewa potter of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, and her husband Julian created the black-on-black pottery style, making her one of the most recognized Native American artists.
Maria Prymachenko
Maria Prymachenko (Марія Примаченко) was a self-taught Ukrainian folk artist from Bolotnya who painted fantastic beasts and flowers for over 60 years, winning the Taras Shevchenko Prize in 1966.
Marianne
Marianne, national personification of the French Republic since 1792: Phrygian cap, bust in every mairie, on stamps, coins and identity cards; celebrity models from Bardot (1969) to Deneuve and Casta.
Marianne Brandt
Marianne Brandt, born Marianne Liebe, was a German designer and metalworker who led the Bauhaus metal workshop from 1928; her tea infuser MT49 and Kandem lamps became Bauhaus classics.