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Martín Chambi
Martín Chambi (1891–1973) was a Peruvian photographer from Puno, the leading portrait photographer of Cuzco and one of the first major Indigenous Latin American photographers.
Martin Johnson Heade
Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904) was an American painter and a central figure of luminism, known for salt marsh landscapes and original still lifes pairing orchids with hummingbirds.
Martin Munkácsi
Martin Munkácsi (Munkácsi Márton, born Mermelstein Márton) was a Hungarian photographer who pioneered action-filled sports reportage and revolutionized fashion photography by shooting models in motion.
Martin Parr
Martin Parr (1952–2025) was a British documentary photographer known for saturated, flash-lit color images of leisure, consumption, and British life, and for the 1986 series The Last Resort.
Martin Puryear
Martin Puryear, born in Washington, D.C., in 1941, is an American sculptor known for handmade abstract works in wood that combine traditional craft with Minimalism.
Martin Schongauer
Martin Schongauer (c.1445/1450–1491), Alsatian painter and copperplate engraver of Colmar and Breisach, called Hübsch Martin; 116 signed engravings, the Madonna of the Rose Bower (1473), and major influence on Dürer, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt.
Martine Franck
Martine Franck (1938–2012) was a Belgian documentary and portrait photographer, a full member of Magnum Photos from 1983, and the second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Maruyama Ōkyo
Maruyama Ōkyo (円山応挙, 1733–1795) was a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period who worked mainly in Kyoto and founded the Maruyama school of realistic painting.
Maruyama Ōkyo's realism
Maruyama Ōkyo's realism is the painting method centered on shasei (写生, drawing from observation) that Kyoto painter Maruyama Ōkyo developed and used to found the Maruyama school.
Maruyama school
The Maruyama school (円山派) was a school of Japanese painting founded in Kyoto in the mid-18th century by Maruyama Ōkyo, making direct sketching from nature its central principle.
Maruyama-Shijō school
The Maruyama-Shijō school (円山四条派) is the combined name for two related schools of Japanese painting founded in Kyoto in the late eighteenth century: the Maruyama school of Maruyama Ōkyo and the Shijō school of Matsumura Goshun.
Marvel 1602
Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue Marvel Knights limited series (2003–2004) by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, and Richard Isanove reimagining Marvel heroes in Elizabethan England as feared "witchbreeds", spawning the Earth-311 1602 universe sequels.
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics, also known historically as Timely Comics and Atlas Comics, is the American comic publisher founded by Martin Goodman in 1939, home of Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, Disney-owned since 2009 and relocating to Burbank in 2026.
Marvel Premiere
Marvel Premiere was a Marvel Comics tryout anthology series, April 1972 to August 1981, 61 issues, distinct from the modern Marvel Premier Collection trade paperback line. It debuted Adam Warlock (#1) and Iron Fist (#15) and carried the second Doctor Strange series (#3-14).
Marvel Universe
The Marvel Universe is Marvel Comics' shared superhero world, which pioneered 1960s shared-world continuity, spans 80,000-plus characters and a multiverse, and differs from the separate Marvel Cinematic Universe film continuity begun in 2008.
Marville (comics)
Marville is a seven-issue Marvel Comics satirical series (2002-2003) written by Marvel president Bill Jemas for the U-Decide sales contest against Peter David's Captain Marvel; starring KalAOL, Ted Turner's son, it is known as one of Marvel's worst-reviewed comics.
Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844–1926), American Impressionist painter and printmaker based in Paris, the only American to exhibit with the Impressionists (1879–1886), known for mother-and-child scenes, the 1890 Set of Ten color prints, and the 1893 Modern Woman mural.
Mary Marvel
Mary Marvel (Mary Batson/Bromfield), Fawcett-created 1942 superheroine by Otto Binder and Marc Swayze, twin/foster sister of Shazam; first appeared Captain Marvel Adventures #18, had her own 1945-1948 series, later DC's Lady Shazam.
Mary McCartney
Mary McCartney (born 1969, London), British photographer, filmmaker, and food advocate, daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney; shot the 2015 Queen Elizabeth II longest-reigning portrait and directed the Abbey Road documentary If These Walls Could Sing.
Mary Pinchot Meyer
Mary Pinchot Meyer (1920-1964), also Mary Meyer, American abstract painter of the Washington Color School, ex-wife of CIA official Cord Meyer and partner of JFK; known for stained-color tondos like Half Light (SAAM) and her unsolved 1964 murder on the C&O towpath.
Mary Sibande
Mary Sibande, born 1982 in Barberton, South Africa, is a Johannesburg-based sculptor and installation artist known for Sophie, her life-size alter ego modeled on her own image.
Mary Vincent (artist)
Mary Vincent, later Mary McGriff (born circa 1962–1963), American artist and victims' advocate who created about 4,000 artworks with prosthetic hooks after a 1978 attack; distinct from painter Mary Vincent Bertrand.
Mary Worth
Mary Worth is an American newspaper comic strip debuting 1938 as Mary Worth's Family, a soap-opera strip about a widowed adviser in Santa Royale; disputed continuation of Martha Orr's 1934 Apple Mary; written by Karen Moy, drawn by June Brigman.
Marzan Sharav
Marzan Sharav (1869–1939), born Baldugiin Sharav, was a Mongolian painter whose nickname means "jester." He was the first Mongolian painter to turn to contemporary subjects and laid the foundation of modern Mongolian visual art.
Masaccio
Masaccio (Tommaso di ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai, 1401-1428), early-Renaissance Florentine painter; pioneer of linear perspective in painting (Holy Trinity) and of single-source light (Brancacci Chapel frescoes with Masolino). Died at about 27, probably of plague in Rome.
Masahisa Fukase
Masahisa Fukase (深瀬昌久, 1934–2012) was a Japanese photographer known for intensely personal work on his wife, family, and cats, and for Ravens, a celebrated photobook of crows photographed in Hokkaido.
Masamune (正宗)
Masamune (正宗), Gorō Nyūdō Masamune, late Kamakura-period swordsmith of Sagami Province, disciple of Shintōgo Kunimitsu who completed the Sōshū tradition; famed for nie-rich notare hamon, rare signed works, and the National Treasure Kanze Masamune.
Masamune Shirow (士郎 正宗)
Masamune Shirow (士郎 正宗) is a Japanese manga artist born in 1961 in Kobe, best known as the creator of Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell.
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto (山本昌男, born 1957) is a Japanese photographer from Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, who trained as a painter and is known for small, hand-toned gelatin silver prints often compared to haiku.
Masayuki Nagare
Masayuki Nagare (流政之, 1923–2018) was a Japanese sculptor known for granite monuments combining traditional craft with modern abstraction, including Cloud Fortress at the World Trade Center.