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Memphis Group
Memphis Group, or Memphis Milano, a Milan-based postmodern design collective founded by Ettore Sottsass in December 1980, debuted at Milan's Arc '74 gallery in 1981 with 55 pieces, disbanded by 1988, and remains commercially produced today.
Menologion of Basil II
The Menologion of Basil II is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript made in Constantinople around 1000 for Emperor Basil II, with 430 gold-ground miniatures of saints and feasts.
Menri style
The Menri style (Tibetan: sman ris) is a classical tradition of Tibetan thangka painting founded in the fifteenth century by Menla Dondrup, becoming central Tibet's standard.
Meow Wolf
Meow Wolf is a Santa Fe-founded immersive art company (started 2008 as an art collective) operating five permanent interactive exhibitions: House of Eternal Return, Omega Mart, Convergence Station, The Real Unreal, and Radio Tave, with LA and NYC planned.
Mestre Didi
Mestre Didi was the popular name of Deoscóredes Maximiliano dos Santos (1917–2013), a Brazilian sculptor and Candomblé priest from Salvador, Bahia, known for sculptures reimagining ritual objects as art.
Met Gala
The Met Gala (Costume Institute Benefit, Met Ball) is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual first-Monday-in-May fundraiser for its Costume Institute, founded by Eleanor Lambert in 1948, themed to the spring exhibition, co-chaired by Anna Wintour since 1995, and famous for its celebrity red carpet.
Metabarons
Metabarons (La Caste des Méta-Barons), also The Metabarons First Cycle, is a space-opera comic by Jodorowsky and Giménez (1992-2003, Les Humanoïdes Associés), a spin-off of The Incal about a warrior dynasty whose heirs kill their fathers.
Metamorphosis II
Metamorphosis II (Metamorphose II) is M.C. Escher's 1939-1940 color woodcut, printed from twenty blocks on three sheets, a four-meter cycle beginning and ending with the word metamorphose.
Metaphysical painting
Metaphysical painting (Italian: Pittura metafisica) is an Italian style of the early twentieth century, founded by Giorgio de Chirico around 1910, that depicts enigmatic dreamlike scenes.
Mewar painting
Mewar painting is a school of Rajasthani miniature painting that emerged in the seventeenth century under the Sisodia dynasty of Mewar, known for bold lines, bright colors, and devotional themes.
Mewar Ramayana
The Mewar Ramayana is a lavishly illustrated Sanskrit manuscript of the Ramayana, made at the Udaipur court of Maharana Jagat Singh of Mewar between 1649 and 1653.
Mexican muralism
Mexican muralism is a state-sponsored movement of large-scale public wall painting that began in Mexico in the early 1920s, led by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
México en el Arte
México en el Arte was an official arts magazine published by Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, running quarterly from 1948 to 1952 and reissued in facsimile in 2019.
Meyyan bint Shihab
Meyyan bint Shihab Al Said (ميّان بنت شهاب آل سعيد), Omani royal, photographer, digital artist, interior designer, and Chairwoman of the Oman Design Association; first solo exhibition Fragments of Imagination (2021), Arab Women Award 2025.
Mezzotint
Mezzotint is an intaglio printmaking technique, invented by Ludwig von Siegen in 1642, in which images are scraped out of roughened plates that print a uniform black.
Michael Armitage
Michael Armitage (born 1984, Nairobi) is a Kenyan British painter known for oil paintings on lubugo bark cloth that combine East African subjects with European art history.
Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut is an American graphic designer, a Pentagram partner from 1990, known for the Mastercard mark, the Saks Fifth Avenue identity, and Hillary Clinton's 2016 "H" logo.
Michael Blümelhuber
Michael Blümelhuber (1865–1936) was an Austrian steel cutter and sculptor in Steyr who turned steel cutting into an art form, best known for the 1924 Linzer Domschlüssel.
Michael Damaskinos
Michael Damaskinos (Μιχαήλ Δαμασκηνός, c. 1530/35–1592/93) was a Greek painter of the Cretan School, born in Candia on Venetian-ruled Crete, who fused Byzantine icon painting with Venetian Renaissance art.
Michael Pacher
Michael Pacher (c. 1430/35–1498) was a South Tyrolean painter, sculptor, and woodcarver based in Bruneck, known for combining Gothic carved altarpieces with Italian Renaissance perspective.
Michael Parekowhai
Michael Parekowhai, born in Porirua, New Zealand, in 1968, is a sculptor and installation artist of Māori and European descent known for meticulously finished, large-scale works.
Michael Sittow
Michael Sittow, also spelled Michel Sittow (c. 1468/9–1525), was an Estonian painter from Reval, now Tallinn, who worked as a court portraitist for Isabella of Castile.
Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan (born 1950) is an American imaginative realist painter, the science fiction and fantasy field's most honored cover artist, with 15 Hugo Awards, 3 World Fantasy Awards, and 2009 Science Fiction Hall of Fame induction; he retired from illustration in 2024.
Michel Colombe
Michel Colombe (c. 1430 – c. 1512) was a French sculptor of the late Gothic Loire Valley style, known for the tomb of François II of Brittany in Nantes Cathedral.
Michel Vaillant
Michel Vaillant is a long-running French motor-racing comic series created by Jean Graton in 1957 for Tintin, chronicling champion driver Michel Vaillant and the family Vaillante firm; rebooted in 2012 under Philippe Graton.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), Italian High Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. Created the Pietà, David, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Last Judgment, and the dome of St. Peter's; first artist called a genius in his lifetime.
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933 in Biella, Italy) is an Italian painter, sculptor, and conceptual artist, a leading figure of Arte Povera known for his Mirror Paintings and Venus of the Rags.
Michele Singer Reiner
Michele Singer Reiner (Michele Singer), American photographer, producer, and LGBTQ+ and early-childhood activist; wife of Rob Reiner; shot The Art of the Deal cover (1987), inspired When Harry Met Sally's ending; killed December 14, 2025.
Michelin Man
The Michelin Man, officially Bibendum, is Michelin's white tire-built mascot created in 1898 by André and Édouard Michelin with artist O'Galop, named from Horace's "Nunc est Bibendum."
Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas (born 1971, Camden, New Jersey) is an American painter and collagist known for elaborate mixed-media portraits of Black women composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel.