The term magic realism was invented by German photographer, art historian and art critic Franz Roh in 1925 to describe …

Magnum Photos is a New York based photographic co-operative founded in 1947 by four photographers, including Robert Capa and Henri …

Mail art is a movement based on the principle of sending small scale works through the postal service

Mannerist is a sixteenth century style of art and design characterised by artificiality, elegance and sensuous distortion of the human …

A maquette is model for a larger piece of sculpture, created in order to visualise how it might look and …

Founded by the documentary photographer David Goldblatt in 1989, Market Photo Workshop was originally set up to support black photographers …

Matter painting refers to the technique of using thick impasto paint into which other materials such as sand, mud, cement …

Medium can refer to both to the type of art (e.g. painting, sculpture, printmaking), as well as the materials an …

A memento mori is an artwork designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the shortness and fragility …

Merz is a nonsense word invented by the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters to describe his collage and assemblage works …

Metal is a solid, hard, opaque material that has been used by sculptors since ancient times

Metaphysical Art (the translation of the Italian Pittura Metafisica) was an early twentieth century Italian art movement typified by dream-like …

Mezzotint is an engraving technique developed in the seventeenth century which allows for the creation of prints with soft gradations …

A miniature is a small painting, usually a portrait

Minimalism is an extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s and typified by artworks composed …

Minjung art was a South Korean socio-political art movement that emerged in 1980 after the Gwangju Massacre, in which some …

Mixed media is a term used to describe artworks composed from a combination of different media or materials

A mobile is a type of sculpture that is formed of delicate components which are suspended in the air and …

Modernism refers to a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought …

The modern moral subject is a type of painting that was invented by English artist William Hogarth (1697–1764), which satirizes …

The term modern realism is applied to painting or sculpture created since the development of abstraction in modern art but …

Modular is a term used particularly in relation to minimalism, referring to a work of art with constituent parts that …

Monochrome means one colour, so in relation to art, a monochrome artwork is one that includes only one colour

Mono-ha (School of Things) was a pioneering art movement that emerged in Tokyo in the mid-1960s whose artists, instead of …

The monoprint is a form of printmaking where the image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows …

A unique image printed from a polished plate, such as glass or metal, which has been painted with a design …

A montage is an assembly of images that relate to each other in some way to create a single work …

A mosaic is a picture made up of small parts which are traditionally tiny tiles made out of terracotta, pieces …

A motif is a recurring fragment, theme or pattern that appears in a work of art

The term multi-media describes artworks made from a range of materials and include an electronic element such as audio or …