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Mixed media
Mixed media: artworks made with two or more materials or techniques in one object, from Cubist collage (Picasso and Braque, circa 1912) to assemblage with found objects. Distinct from multimedia (electronic media) and collage (flat surface); composite structures pose special conservation challenges.
Mixtec goldwork
Mixtec goldwork is the pre-Hispanic goldworking tradition of the Mixtec people of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, which flourished during the Postclassic period and produced most surviving Mesoamerican gold objects.
Moa Romanova
Moa Romanova, Swedish cartoonist and painter born 1992, debut graphic memoir Alltid fucka upp (Goblin Girl, 2018), Eisner Award 2021; later On Tour, På glid, and Buff Soul (2025).
Mobile (sculpture)
A mobile is a kinetic sculpture of balanced parts that move, especially in air currents, invented by American sculptor Alexander Calder and named by Marcel Duchamp in 1931.
Mobius M. Mobius
Mobius M. Mobius is a Marvel Comics TVA bureaucrat created by Walt Simonson, debuting in Fantastic Four #353 (1991) and modeled on editor Mark Gruenwald; Owen Wilson plays a TV-series version who is a variant of jet-ski salesman Don.
Moche fineline painting
Moche fineline painting is a ceramic style of the Moche culture of Peru's north coast, with narrative scenes in fine red or brown slip lines on cream grounds.
Moche portrait vessels
Moche portrait vessels, or huacos retrato, are ceramic vessels shaped as human heads, made by the Moche culture of Peru's north coast between about AD 100 and 800.
Model (person)
Model (person): a person who poses to advertise products in fashion, runway, editorial, commercial, and fit work. Covers casting standards, pay, history from Worth's live models, contractor status, AI replicas, and runway size data.
Modern art
Modern art, also called Modernist art, is the art of Western Europe and North America from roughly the 1860s to the 1970s, rejecting academic tradition for experimentation.
Modern Painters
Modern Painters is a five-volume work of art criticism by John Ruskin, published from 1843 to 1860, defending J.M.W. Turner as the greatest landscape painter.
Modulor
The Modulor is Le Corbusier's anthropometric proportion system, developed 1943–1950 around a 1.83 m figure, the golden section, and red (113 cm) and blue (226 cm) series, published in Le Modulor (1950) and Modulor 2 (1955) and applied in his post-war buildings.
Mogao Cave 112 Musicians Mural
The Mogao Cave 112 musicians mural is a mid-Tang dynasty (766–840) wall painting in the Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang, China, best known for its back-playing pipa dancer.
Mogao Cave 156 Murals
The Mogao Cave 156 murals are Late Tang wall paintings in a cave near Dunhuang, China, built around 864 as the merit cave of general Zhang Yichao.
Mogao Cave 158 Parinirvana Murals
The Mogao Cave 158 parinirvana murals are Middle Tang murals, painted around 781 to 848 under Tibetan rule, surrounding the 15.6-meter reclining Buddha at the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang.
Mogao Cave 172 Amitabha Paradise Murals
The Mogao Cave 172 Amitabha Paradise murals are two High Tang wall paintings, painted 713 to 766, illustrating the Contemplation Sutra and Amitayus Buddha's Western Pure Land at Dunhuang.
Mogao Cave 217 Murals
The Mogao Cave 217 murals are High Tang wall paintings at Dunhuang, funded by the Yin family around 705 to 710, famed for sutra illustrations and blue-green landscapes.
Mogao Cave 285 Murals
The Mogao Cave 285 murals are wall and ceiling paintings at the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang, China, dated by inscriptions to 538 and 539 CE and notable for blending Buddhist, Chinese mythological, and Hindu deities.
Mogao Cave 61 Murals
The Mogao Cave 61 murals are mid-10th-century wall paintings at the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang, sponsored by governor Cao Yuanzhong and famous for its Mount Wutai map.
Mohamed Amin
Mohamed Amin (محمد أمين), known as "Mo", was a Kenyan photojournalist and cameraman whose 1984 Ethiopian famine report prompted the global relief effort behind Band Aid and Live Aid.
Mohamed Melehi
Mohamed Melehi (محمد المليحي) was a Moroccan painter and designer, a leading Moroccan modernist whose hard-edged abstractions center on a recurring wave motif, and co-founder of the Casablanca School.
Mohamed Racim
Mohamed Racim (محمد راسم, 1896–1975) was an Algerian painter born in the Casbah of Algiers who, with his brother Omar, founded the Algerian school of miniature painting, introducing depth into Islamic miniatures.
Mohammed Omer Khalil
Mohammed Omer Khalil (محمد عمر خليل, born 1936) is a Sudanese painter, collagist, and master printmaker who has lived in New York City since 1967, celebrated as the first printmaker to emerge from the Arab world.
Mold Gold Cape
The Mold Gold Cape is a Bronze Age ceremonial cape of beaten sheet gold found near Mold, Wales, in 1833 and now held by the British Museum.
Moldavian school of mural painting
The Moldavian school of mural painting is a 15th- and 16th-century church fresco tradition in Moldavia, known for covering church exteriors entirely with painted religious scenes.
MoMA Department of Photography
The MoMA Department of Photography, established in 1940 as the first curatorial department devoted to photography at any museum, grew from a 1937 survey into a collection of more than 35,000 works.
Mon (紋) (emblem)
Mon (紋), or kamon (家紋), are Japanese hereditary family emblems: simplified monochrome designs in circular or geometric frames. Originated in Heian ox-carriage marks, spread to samurai and then commoners; over 30,000 designs exist, with no European-style coats of arms.
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), Leonardo da Vinci's c. 1503–1519 oil portrait of Lisa Gherardini on poplar, 77 × 53 cm, in the Louvre's Salle des États; famous for sfumato and the 1911 Peruggia theft.
Monica Rambeau
Monica Rambeau, also known as Captain Marvel, Photon, Pulsar, and Spectrum, is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Roger Stern and John Romita Jr. in 1982 who can transform into any electromagnetic energy form and led the Avengers.
Monika Dannemann
Monika Charlotte Dannemann (1945 or 1946–1996), German figure skater and painter, last girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix, author of The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix, lyricist of We'll Burn the Sky, died in Seaford in 1996.
Monochrome
Monochrome in art: painting in a single color, from grisaille underpainting and Haarlem landscapes to Malevich's 1915 Suprematist monochromes, Rodchenko's 1921 canvases, Yves Klein's blue epoch, Dansaekhwa, and modern conservation challenges.