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Mashiko ware
Mashiko ware (益子焼, Mashiko-yaki) is Japanese pottery made in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, transformed from everyday vessels into a nationally known craft after Hamada Shoji settled there in 1924.
Mask of Tutankhamun
Mask of Tutankhamun (Carter 256a, JE 60672): solid gold funerary mask, about 10 kg, covering the pharaoh's mummy, found 1922; 2015 study rejected the reworking hypothesis; now in the Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza.
Massimo Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli (1931–2014) was an Italian-born American modernist designer whose work shaped the New York City subway map and signage, the American Airlines logo, and Bloomingdale's bags.
Master Mold
Master Mold is a Marvel Comics X-Men villain, a giant Sentinel factory robot coined by Bolivar Trask, first appearing in X-Men #15, later merging with Nimrod to become Bastion and destroying Genosha in X-Men '97.
Masterpiece
Masterpiece: originally the chef d'œuvre a guild craftsman submitted to earn master rank, now the outstanding work expressing an artist's fullest achievement; covers guild origins, canon formation, UNESCO and market uses.
Mathias Goeritz
Mathias Goeritz (1915–1990) was a German-born Mexican painter, sculptor, and architect who pioneered "Emotional Architecture," best known for the museum El Eco and the Satellite City towers with Luis Barragán.
Mathilde de Morny
Mathilde de Morny (1863–1944), marquise de Belbeuf, also Missy, Oncle Max, or Yssim, French painter, sculptor, and Belle Époque society figure; daughter of the duc de Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III, known for her masculine presentation, surgery, and affair with Colette.
Mathu Andersen
Mathu Andersen is an Australian-born makeup artist and photographer who did RuPaul's hair and makeup on Drag Race from 2009 to 2015, earning a 2015 Emmy nomination, and shows self-portraits on Instagram.
Matières Fécales
Matières Fécales (Fecal Matter) is a Paris-based avant-garde fashion house founded by Canadian duo Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran, who met at LaSalle College Montreal in 2014, rose via Depop and skin shoes, joined the Dover Street Market Paris incubator in 2024, and debuted at Paris Fashion Week in March 2025.
Matrakçı Nasuh
Matrakçı Nasuh (died 1564) was an Ottoman historian, mathematician, miniaturist, calligrapher, and swordsman who gave Ottoman miniature painting a topographic direction through illustrated city views.
Matsuda Gonroku
Matsuda Gonroku (松田権六, 1896–1986) was a Japanese lacquer artist and maki-e master, the first Living National Treasure for maki-e, who received the Order of Culture in 1976.
Matsukata Kōjirō
Matsukata Kōjirō (松方 幸次郎, 1866–1950) was a Japanese businessman and art collector who assembled about 10,000 Western and Japanese works; his collection became the founding core of Tokyo's National Museum of Western Art.
Matsumura Goshun
Matsumura Goshun, also known as Matsumura Gekkei, was a Japanese painter of the late Edo period, active 1752–1811, who founded the Shijō school of Kyoto painting.
Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney (born 1967, San Francisco) is an American artist known for the five-film Cremaster cycle (1994–2002) and the Drawing Restraint series (1987–present), whose principle of form through resistance unites his sculpture, performance, and film.
Matthew Carter
Matthew Carter, born in London in 1937, is a British type designer who created Verdana, Georgia, and Bell Centennial, co-founded Bitstream, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.
Matthias Grünewald
Matthias Grünewald, whose real name was Mathis Gothart Nithart (c. 1475–1528), was a German painter of the Northern Renaissance, best known for the Isenheim Altarpiece, painted for a monastery hospital between 1512 and 1516.
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) is Emma Sulkowicz's 2014–15 endurance performance artwork, her Columbia University senior thesis, in which she carried a 50-pound dorm mattress on campus in protest of the university's handling of her sexual assault report; it inspired the Carry That Weight movement and is now in the Smithsonian collection.
Maud Lewis
Maud Lewis (Maud Kathleen Dowley, 1901 or 1903–1970) was a Canadian folk artist of Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, who sold brightly colored small paintings of rural life for $2–10 from her one-room painted house, now displayed at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
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.
Maurice Denis
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) was a French painter and the chief theorist of the Nabis, known for defining a painting as a flat surface covered with colors.
Maurice Prendergast
Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924) was a Newfoundlander-born American painter and watercolorist known for mosaic-like, brightly colored scenes of leisure, and an early adopter of post-impressionism in America.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788), also spelled Delatour, French pastel portraitist in Paris, painter to Louis XV from 1750, rival of Perronneau; famed for Voltaire, the Rieux portraits, and 15 self-portraits.
Maurizio Calvesi (art historian, 1927–2020)
Maurizio Calvesi (1927–2020) was an Italian art historian who taught at Palermo and Rome, studied Caravaggio, Dürer, and Duchamp, and won the 2008 Balzan Prize.
Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960, Padua) is a self-taught Italian conceptual artist of hyperrealistic sculpture and satire, creator of La Nona Ora, Him, the gold toilet America, and Comedian, the duct-taped banana that sold for $6.2 million in 2024.
Mawangdui lacquered coffins
The Mawangdui lacquered coffins (马王堆漆棺) are nested painted burial coffins from three Western Han tombs at Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan, excavated 1972 to 1974, most famously the four enclosing Lady Dai.
Mawangdui silk banner
The Mawangdui silk banner (T形帛画, T-shaped silk painting) is a painted silk funerary banner from the Western Han tombs at Mawangdui, Changsha, discovered in 1972.
Mawangdui silk paintings
Mawangdui silk paintings (马王堆帛画) are Han dynasty paintings on silk excavated between 1972 and 1974 from tombs at Changsha, Hunan, China, including two T-shaped coffin banners.
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 Dupain
Max Dupain, full name Maxwell Spencer Dupain (1911–1992), was an Australian modernist photographer known for sharply lit beach and architectural images; his 1937 photograph Sunbaker became an Australian icon.