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Marianne von Werefkin
Marianne von Werefkin (Марианна Верёвкина, 1860–1938) was a Russian-born painter and art theorist who co-founded the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in 1909 and took part in Der Blaue Reiter exhibitions.
Marie Tussaud
Marie Tussaud, born Marie Grosholtz (1761–1850), was a French wax sculptor trained by Philippe Curtius who founded the Madame Tussauds wax museum in London after touring Britain.
Marie-Thérèse Walter
Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909–1977), French model and Picasso's lover and muse from 1927 to about 1940, mother of Maya Widmaier-Picasso; subject of Le Rêve (1932) and the Boisgeloup plaster busts.
Marilyn Diptych
Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol, 1962: two-panel silkscreen painting of Marilyn Monroe printed fifty times, color left and fading black-and-white right, from a Niagara publicity still, made weeks after her death, Tate London since 1980.
Marina Abramović (Марина Абрамовић)
Marina Abramović (Марина Абрамовић; born 1946, Belgrade) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist, pioneer of body and endurance art, known for Rhythm 0, her 1975–88 collaboration with Ulay, and The Artist Is Present at MoMA in 2010.
Marina Yee
Marina Mariette Alfons Yee (1958–2025) was a Belgian fashion designer and teacher, a member of the Antwerp Six and an early slow-fashion practitioner known for reconstructing vintage clothing.
Mario Giacomelli
Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000) was a self-taught Italian photographer from Senigallia, known for high-contrast black-and-white images of rural people and landscapes, combining documentary subjects with heavy manipulation.
Mario Merz
Mario Merz (1925–2003) was an Italian painter and sculptor, a central figure of the Arte Povera movement, known for his igloo constructions, neon tubing, and Fibonacci sequences.
Mario Miranda
Mario Miranda (2 May 1926 – 11 December 2011), Indian cartoonist and painter of Goan village and Bombay life; creator of Miss Nimbupani and Miss Fonseca; Times of India, Illustrated Weekly; Padma Vibhushan 2012.
Mário Pedrosa
Mário Pedrosa (1900–1981) was a Brazilian art critic and political militant regarded as central to Brazil's postwar modern art scene and a founder of the Workers' Party.
Mario Sironi
Mario Sironi (1885–1961) was an Italian painter and muralist who moved from Futurism to monumental classicism and led the Novecento movement, whose aesthetic became the dominant style of Italian Fascism.
Mario Testino
Mario Testino (born 1954, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer, OBE, famed for Vanity Fair portraits of Diana, Princess of Wales, campaigns for Gucci, Burberry and Versace, the Towel Series, and Museo MATE in Lima.
Mario Torelli
Mario Torelli (1937–2020) was an Italian classical archaeologist who transformed the reading of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman imagery, directed major sanctuary excavations in Italy, and won the 2014 Balzan Prize.
Marjane Satrapi (مرجان ساتراپی)
Marjane Satrapi (مرجان ساتراپی), 1969–2026, Iranian-French graphic novelist and filmmaker; author of Persepolis (2000–03) and Woman, Life, Freedom; directed the Oscar-nominated animated Persepolis film.
Marjorie Eaton
Marjorie Lee Eaton (1901–1986) was an American painter, photographer, and character actress of the Taos and California modernist circles, known for modernist portraits of Juan Mirabal, her work with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and playing the costumed Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back.
Mark Antokolsky
Mark Antokolsky, born Mordukh Matysovich Antokolsky, was a Russian realist sculptor of historical and religious figures whose Ivan the Terrible, bought by Tsar Alexander II in 1871, made his reputation.
Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford (born 1961, Los Angeles) is an American artist known for large-scale abstract paintings built from scavenged billboard paper and perm end-papers; he represented the United States at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
Mark Fiennes
Mark Fiennes (Mark Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 1933-2004), English architectural photographer and illustrator, Country Life contributor, father of Ralph and Joseph Fiennes; died Clare, Suffolk, 30 December 2004.
Mark Maggiori
Mark Maggiori (born 1977, Fontainebleau, France) is a French painter of the American West, former Pleymo lead singer, known for cloud-filled cowboy oils; auction record $1.3 million for The Prophecy at Jackson Hole Art Auction, 2026.
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko (Markus Rothkowitz, 1903–1970), Latvian-born American Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painter of luminous soft-edged rectangles; Seagram, Harvard, and Rothko Chapel commissions; died by suicide in New York in 1970.
Mark Ryden
Mark Ryden (born 1963, Medford, Oregon), American painter and pioneer of Pop Surrealism or Lowbrow Art, blending old-master oil glaze technique with pop culture; former illustrator for Michael Jackson's Dangerous, retrospectives in Seattle and Malaga, record auction price 714,000 USD.
Mark Tobey
Mark Tobey (1890–1976) was an American abstract painter known for "white writing," a technique of dense calligraphic lines developed from his study of East Asian calligraphy.
Marlboro Man
The Marlboro Man is the cowboy advertising icon created by Leo Burnett for Philip Morris's Marlboro cigarettes in 1955, repositioning a women's brand; Marlboro Country followed in 1963, and the US campaign ended in 1999.
Marlene Alraune
Marlene Alraune (Marlène Alraune), Marvel Comics supporting character and Moon Knight's principal love interest, created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin; daughter of archaeologist Dr. Peter Alraune, mother of Diatrice, never powered, replaced onscreen by Layla El-Faouly.
Marmik
Marmik (मार्मिक) is a Marathi weekly of political cartoons founded in Bombay by Bal Thackeray in 1960, which led to the Shiv Sena's founding in 1966.
Mars Attacks
Mars Attacks is a 1962 Topps trading-card series of 55 Mars-invasion cards by Len Brown, Woody Gelman, Bob Powell, and Norm Saunders, cancelled over gore, later reprinted and adapted into Tim Burton's 1996 film.
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.
Marshal Law
Marshal Law, satirical comic series and character by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill, debuted in Epic Comics' 1987 six-issue miniseries; a superpowered hero-hunter, ex-soldier Joe Gilmore of San Futuro, later published by Apocalypse, Dark Horse, and DC.
Martha Hunt
Martha Hunt (born 1989, Wilson, North Carolina) is an American model, a former Victoria's Secret Angel signed in 2012, with 96 recorded runway shows, IMG representation, and scoliosis advocacy through Enuval.
Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler (born 1943) is an American feminist artist known for the antiwar photomontage series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home and the video Semiotics of the Kitchen.