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Motaz Azaiza (معتز هلال عزايزة)
Motaz Azaiza (معتز هلال عزايزة), born 1999 in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, is a Palestinian photojournalist whose Instagram coverage of the Gaza war reached millions of followers, earning TIME100 (2024) and GQ Middle East Man of the Year honors.
Motion blur
Motion blur is the smearing of fast-moving objects across a frame, caused physically by camera exposure and artificially simulated in games, animation, and rendered imagery.
Mountains and Sea
Mountains and Sea is a 1952 abstract painting by Helen Frankenthaler, made by pouring thinned oil paint onto raw canvas in a soak-stain technique that inspired Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Color Field painting.
Mourners of Dijon
The Mourners of Dijon (French: pleurants) are 82 alabaster statuettes in funeral procession around the tombs of the Dukes of Burgundy, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon.
Moutier-Grandval Bible
The Moutier-Grandval Bible is a ninth-century Carolingian single-volume Latin Bible written at the abbey of Saint-Martin in Tours, known for its four full-page miniatures and held in the British Library since 1836.
Movimento Armorial
The Movimento Armorial, or Armorial Movement, is a Brazilian artistic movement founded by Ariano Suassuna in Recife in 1970 to create erudite art from Northeastern popular culture.
Movses Khorenatsi Medal
The Movses Khorenatsi Medal is a state medal of Armenia, established in 1993 and awarded by the President for achievements in culture, art, literature, education, and sports.
Moyai statue
The Moyai statue is a stone sculpture at Shibuya Station, Tokyo, carved from koga stone. It was donated in 1980 by Niijima Village and named for the local dialect word moyai.
Mozambique shetani carvings
Mozambique shetani carvings are a modern Makonde sculpture style depicting spirits in distorted, abstract forms, carved in African blackwood and created in the 1950s by Samaki Likonkoa.
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy is a large 1970–1971 acrylic double portrait by David Hockney of fashion designer Ossie Clark and textile designer Celia Birtwell, with their cat, in their Notting Hill flat.
Mr. Brainwash
Mr. Brainwash, pseudonym of Thierry Guetta (born 1966, France), is a Los Angeles street-pop artist whose debut show sold $1m of derivative Warhol- and Banksy-inspired work; he was made famous by Banksy's documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Mrinalini Mukherjee
Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015) was an Indian sculptor in New Delhi known for monumental hand-knotted sculptures in dyed natural fiber, best known for Yakshi (1984), held by the Museum of Modern Art.
Mu'in Musavvir
Mu'in Musavvir (معین مصوّر) was a Persian painter of the Safavid period who worked in Isfahan as the best-known pupil of Riza-yi 'Abbasi, producing more than 300 miniatures and drawings.
Muchaku and Seshin statues
The Muchaku and Seshin statues are a pair of standing wooden portrait sculptures of the Indian scholar-monks Asanga and Vasubandhu, carved by Unkei around 1212 for Kofuku-ji in Nara, Japan.
Mudéjar
Mudéjar (from Arabic mudayyan) is the Islamic-influenced architectural style created by Muslim craftsmen for Christian patrons in Reconquest-era Spain, 12th to 17th century; UNESCO-listed in Aragon since 1986.
Mughal atelier
The Mughal atelier, known as the kitabkhana ("house of books"), was the Mughal Empire's imperial workshop of calligraphers and painters, founded under Humayun and Akbar, whose great age ran from about 1580 to 1650.
Mughal bird and flower painting
Mughal bird and flower painting is the genre of natural history studies of birds, animals, and plants made in the imperial ateliers, led by Ustad Mansur under Jahangir.
Mughal carpets
Mughal carpets are the pile carpets produced for the Mughal court of India from the mid-sixteenth century onward, chiefly in imperial workshops at Fatehpur Sikri, Agra, and Lahore.
Mughal jade wine cup
A Mughal jade wine cup is a small drinking vessel carved from nephrite jade at the Mughal imperial workshops, chiefly for emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan and often inscribed with Persian verses.
Mughal painting
Mughal painting: a court miniature painting tradition of the Mughal Empire (16th–19th centuries), founded by Humayun's Persian masters and Akbar's atelier, blending Persian, Indian, and European styles, peaking under Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
Muisca raft
The Muisca raft (Balsa muisca) is a cast gold votive figure of a chieftain and ten figures on a raft, found in 1969 near Pasca, Colombia.
Mukul Dey
Mukul Dey (1895–1989) was an Indian painter and printmaker, pioneer of drypoint etching in India and first Indian principal of the Government School of Art, Calcutta.
Multiple exposure
Multiple exposure is a photographic technique in which two or more separate exposures are recorded on one frame of film or combined digitally into a single image.
Mumuye figure sculpture
Mumuye figure sculpture is the wooden figural carving tradition of the Mumuye people of northeastern Nigeria, elongated abstract figures used in divination, healing, and rainmaking rituals.
Munakata Shikō
Munakata Shikō (棟方志功) was a Japanese woodblock print artist from Aomori who won the top print awards at the São Paulo and Venice Biennales in the mid-1950s.
Mungo Martin
Mungo Martin, also known as Nakap'ankam, was a Kwakwaka'wakw carver and hereditary chief who worked as head carver at the Royal BC Museum's Thunderbird Park from 1952.
Muqarnas
Muqarnas (Arabic مقرنصات, also called mocárabe) is a three-dimensional honeycomb-like ornamental vaulting in Islamic architecture, which transitions square plans to domes and appears in works such as the Alhambra.
Muqarnas ceiling of the Cappella Palatina
The muqarnas ceiling of the Cappella Palatina is a painted wooden honeycomb ceiling over the nave of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo, built under Roger II in the 1140s.
Muqi
Muqi (牧谿), also Muxi or Japanese Mokkei, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk and painter, monastic name Fachang, active from the late Southern Song into the early Yuan.
Mural
A mural is a painting made directly on a wall, ceiling, or other permanent architectural surface, also called wall painting. Distinguished from easel painting by immobility; principal techniques are fresco (buon, mezzo, secco), tempera, and modern acrylics.