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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.
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann (1847–1935), German-Jewish painter and printmaker born and died in Berlin; pioneer of German Impressionism with Slevogt and Corinth, founder-president of the Berlin Secession, Prussian Academy president 1920–1933, banned by the Nazis in 1933.
Max Mercury
Max Mercury (Max Crandall), originally Quicksilver of Quality Comics (National Comics #5, 1940), is a DC speedster revived by Mark Waid in Flash #76 (1993); mentor to Impulse and explainer of the Speed Force.
Max Švabinský
Max Švabinský (1873–1962) was a Czech painter and printmaker regarded as the founder of Czech modern graphic art and a leading Czech artist of the early 20th century.
Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966), born Frederick Parrish, American illustrator and painter of the Cornish Art Colony, famous for Parrish blue skies, glazing technique, Edison Mazda calendars, and the mass-reproduced print Daybreak.
Maximalism
Maximalism is an aesthetic of abundance, ornament, and "more is more" opposing minimalism's "less is more." Coined in art by critic Robert Pincus-Witten for 1980s expressionism, with roots in Pattern and Decoration (New York, 1975), it spans art, architecture, music, and fashion.
Maya jadeite mosaic
A Maya jadeite mosaic is a funerary mask made of many small fitted jadeite tiles, placed over the faces of deceased Maya rulers to transform them into the maize god.
Maya Lin
Maya Lin (born 1959, Athens, Ohio) is an American artist and architect, not the Maya software or Maya Angelou, who won the 1981 Vietnam Veterans Memorial competition and created the Civil Rights Memorial, Storm King Wavefield, and What Is Missing?.
Maya stucco modeling
Maya stucco modeling is the ancient Maya practice of shaping lime-based plaster into architectural sculpture, wall coatings, and floors, used from the Middle Preclassic period to the Late Postclassic.
Maya Widmaier-Picasso
Maya Widmaier-Picasso (1935–2022), born María de la Concepción, eldest daughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter, was a French art historian, authenticator of Picasso's work, and donor in 2021 of nine works to the French state.
Mbari
Mbari is a votive art form of the Owerri Igbo of Nigeria: a mud sculpture house built as an offering to a deity, then left to decay.
Meat-shaped Stone
The Meat-shaped Stone (肉形石) is a Qing dynasty carved curio in Taipei's National Palace Museum, a layered jasper dyed to resemble braised Dongpo pork belly.
Medal
Medal: a metal disk commemorating a person, event, or achievement, with no face value or legal-tender status, unlike a coin. Originated in 15th-century Italy; made by casting, striking, or zinc die-casting.
Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Medal of Honor: Warfighter is a first-person military shooter by Danger Close and EA, released October 23, 2012 on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, using Frostbite 2, with Fire Team multiplayer and poor reception (PC Metascore 55).
Medallion carpet
A medallion carpet is a knotted-pile carpet whose field centers on a medallion (Persian toranj), typically balanced by corner quarter-medallions; it reached its classic form in 16th-century Safavid Iran.
Mediala
Mediala (Медиала) was a Serbian art group founded in 1957 in Belgrade by Leonid Šejka, Miro Glavurtić, Olja Ivanjicki, and others, pursuing fantastic figurative painting opposed to Yugoslav modernism.
Medical photography
Medical photography is the making of images of the body's surface, accessible cavities, or wounds for medical records, care, teaching, and research, distinct from diagnostic imaging.
Medieval art
Medieval art: European and Mediterranean art from the fall of Rome (476 CE) to the 15th-century Renaissance, chiefly Byzantine and Western Romanesque/Gothic traditions, mostly religious in purpose and Church-patronized.
Medivh
Medivh, the Last Guardian of Tirisfal in Blizzard's Warcraft lore, son of Aegwynn and Nielas Aran, possessed by Sargeras, opened the Dark Portal, was slain at Karazhan, and returned as the Prophet in Warcraft III.
Medu Art Ensemble
Medu Art Ensemble, meaning "roots" in SePedi, was a collective of exiled South African cultural workers in Gaborone, Botswana, producing anti-apartheid posters, music, and theater until 1985.
Meera Mukherjee
Meera Mukherjee (মীরা মুখোপাধ্যায়; 1923–1998) was an Indian sculptor and writer from Calcutta who adapted the Dhokra lost-wax casting technique to modern bronze figures of working people.
Megatokyo
Megatokyo (メガトーキョー) is a long-running English-language webcomic created in August 2000 by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston about two stranded American otaku in Tokyo; manga-styled, print-published by Ironcat, Dark Horse, and DC's CMX, and still updating.
Mehmed Esad Yesari
Mehmed Esad Yesari (Yesârî Mehmed Esad Efendi), who died in 1798, was an Ottoman calligrapher who gave the ta'lik script its Ottoman-Turkish identity and founded the Turkish ta'lik school.
Mei Qing
Mei Qing (梅清, 1623 or 1624–1697) was a Chinese landscape painter and poet of the early Qing dynasty, celebrated as a leading master of the Huangshan School.
Meindert Hobbema
Meindert Hobbema, baptized Meyndert Lubbertsz (1638–1709), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter known for wooded scenes and watermills, and for his late masterpiece The Avenue at Middelharnis.
Meisho-e
Meisho-e (名所絵, "pictures of famous places") is a Japanese genre of painting and printmaking depicting celebrated scenic spots, perfected by Hokusai and Hiroshige in the Edo period.
Meissen Monkey Band
The Meissen Monkey Band, also sold as the Monkey Orchestra (Affenkapelle), is a set of 21 porcelain monkey musician figurines first modeled at Meissen in 1753 by Johann Joachim Kändler.
Melchior Broederlam
Melchior Broederlam was a Flemish painter of Ypres who served as court painter to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, documented from 1381 to 1409.
Melchor Pérez de Holguín
Melchor Pérez de Holguín (c. 1660–c. 1732) was a Bolivian painter active in the silver-mining city of Potosí, known as the "Golden Brush" and regarded as Bolivia's greatest colonial artist.
Melencolia I
Melencolia I, also known as Melancholia I, is a 1514 copper engraving by Albrecht Dürer showing a winged female figure seated in dejection among tools of geometry and measurement.