Richard Marshall Merkin (1938 – September 5, 2009) was an American painter, illustrator and arts educator. Merkin's fascination with the 1920s and 1930s defined his art and shaped his identity as a professional dandy. Many of Merkin's works depict the interwar years, painting narrative scenes in bright colors of jazz musicians, film stars, writers, and sports heroes. Merkin was as well known for his painting and illustration work as he was for his eccentric collecting habits and his outré fashion sense.

César Augusto Martínez (born 1944 in Laredo, Texas) is an artist, prominent in the Chicano world of art. While studying at what was then called Texas A&I College, and later Texas A&I University, he became marginally involved in the Chicano movement for civil rights and became close friends with several of its leaders, among them, Carlos Guerra, a columnist with the San Antonio Express-News. Guerra died in 2010.

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Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) is an American artist and illustrator. McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany's (his first film poster assignment), Barbarella, and several James Bond and Matt Helm films.

David Lozeau is an American artist and children's book writer who has achieved media recognition principally for his paintings and exhibits relating to the Day of the Dead. Based in San Diego, California, Lozeau is part of a modern art movement that depicts skeleton characters as if they were alive. His paintings also pay tribute to cars, motorcycles, and guitars which have led to collaborations with Harley-Davidson and Fender Guitar Company. Lozeau's representations of vintage cars and motorcycles align with the Kustom Kulture movement which celebrates mid-century American design. His work has been featured in Disney Parks' Wonderground Gallery, and he has twice been a Disney Parks artist-in-residence. He is a guild member of the Spanish Village Art Center in San Diego.

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Robert Longo (born January 7, 1953) is an American artist, filmmaker, and musician. Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his "Men in the Cities" series, which depicted sharply dressed men and women writhing in contorted emotion.

James David McNitt (born 1948) is an American painter and photographer. He has worked as a news photographer for United Press International (1974), a freelance marine photojournalist (1975–1982), and as a contract photographer, writer and editor for Newsweek International Special Projects (1982–2002). Since 2002, McNitt has concentrated on digital printmaking and mixed-media paintings, especially images that advocate awareness of climate change and other environmental issues.

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Edward D. Maryon (April 5, 1931 - March 9, 2005) was an American painter and educator. He taught art at his alma mater, the University of Utah, from 1957 to 1991, and he was the dean of its College of Fine Arts from 1964 to 1981. He painted watercolors. According to Utah Art, Utah Artists: 150 Year Survey, "His paintings are representational but contemporary in that the colors are modified and intensified, as is the light and shade, and space is used in an arbitrary way. The subject matter is stylized freely to enhance the abstract quality of the work."

Jin Meyerson (born 1972, Incheon, South Korea) is an American artist previously based in Brooklyn, New York, later dividing his time between Paris and Seoul.

César Augusto Martínez (born 1944 in Laredo, Texas) is an artist, prominent in the Chicano world of art. While studying at what was then called Texas A&I College, and later Texas A&I University, he became marginally involved in the Chicano movement for civil rights and became close friends with several of its leaders, among them, Carlos Guerra, a columnist with the San Antonio Express-News. Guerra died in 2010. He was raised by his mother and her family in Laredo because his father died when he was less than one year old. He is currently based in San Antonio, Texas. Some of his more famous paintings are from his series of portraits of pachucos.

Robert Lostutter (born 1939) is a Chicago-based artist. He was a member of the Chicago Imagists, a breakaway group of surrealist iconoclasts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who showed in the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969 and later. His meticulous watercolors depict human-bird hybrids.

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Malcolm T Liepke (born October 31, 1953) is an American painter born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, but dropped out after a year and a half. He moved to New York and began studying, on his own, artists such as John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Diego Velázquez, James McNeill Whistler and Édouard Vuillard. In turn, his style has inspired others. His art has been on the covers of Time, Newsweek, Forbes and Fortune. His artworks are now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution and the Brooklyn Museum. Liepke's work has been widely shown and exhibited in the Pastel Society of America, the American Watercolor Society, National Academy of Design and the National Arts Club. Liepke's emphasis has been on figurative artworks. His paintings and drawings often focus on intimate moments of sensual pleasure and introspection. Malcolm T. Liepke has been selling out his exhibitions since his 1986 show at Eleanor Ettinger Gallery. He is represented by Pasadena's Arcadia Contemporary the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art in Telluride, Colorado Rukaj Gallery Toronto and Pontone Gallery London. An interview with Liepke appeared in the October 2006 issue of American Artist magazine.

John Lurie (born December 14, 1952) is an American musician, painter, actor, director, and producer. He co-founded The Lounge Lizards jazz ensemble, acted in 19 films, including Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law, composed and performed music for 20 television and film works, and produced, directed, and starred in the Fishing with John television series. In 1996 his soundtrack for Get Shorty was nominated for a Grammy Award, and his album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits has been praised by both critics and fellow musicians. Since 2000, Lurie has suffered from symptoms attributed to "chronic Lyme disease" and has focused his attention on painting. His art has been shown in galleries and museums around the world. His primitivist painting Bear Surprise became an internet meme in Russia in 2006.

John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead singer of the late-1970s British punk band the Sex Pistols, which lasted from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is also the lead singer of post-punk band Public Image Ltd (PiL), which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again since 2009. Lydon's outspoken personality, rebellious image and fashion style led to his being asked to become the singer of the Sex Pistols by their manager, Malcolm McLaren. With the Sex Pistols, he penned singles including "Anarchy in the U.K.," "God Save the Queen", "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays in the Sun", the content of which precipitated what one commentator described as the "last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium" in Britain. The band scandalised much of the media, and Lydon was seen as a figurehead of the burgeoning punk movement. Because of their controversial lyrics and disrepute at the time, they are regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music. After the Sex Pistols disbanded in 1978, Lydon founded his own band, Public Image Ltd, which was far more experimental in nature and described in a 2005 NME review as "arguably the first post-rock group." The band produced eight albums and a string of singles, including "Public Image", "Death Disco", and "Rise", before they went on hiatus in 1993, reforming in 2009. In subsequent years, Lydon has hosted television shows in the UK, US, and Belgium, appeared on I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! in the UK, appeared in advertisements on UK television promoting Dairy Crest, a brand of British butter, written two autobiographies, and produced some solo musical work, such as the album Psycho's Path (1997). In 2005, he released a compilation album, The Best of British £1 Notes. In 2015, there was a revival of a 1980s movement to have Lydon knighted for his achievements with the Sex Pistols, even though he has declined efforts to award him an MBE for his services to music. Q magazine remarked that "somehow he's assumed the status of national treasure". In 2002, he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote.

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Alvin D. Loving Jr. (September 19, 1935 – June 21, 2005), better known as Al Loving, was an African-American abstract expressionist painter. His work is known for hard-edge abstraction, fabric constructions, and large paper collages, all exploring complicated color relationships.

Gary Lord (born 1952) is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based faux painting artist and teacher. He owns a decorative painting business, Gary Lord Wall Options and Associates Inc, and is the founder of Prismatic Painting Studio and ItsFauxEasy.com, a video-based faux painting teaching site. He has been teaching faux painting techniques for over 25 years via seminars, DVDs, the Internet, and best-selling books. He has also appeared on hundreds of television segments demonstrating faux painting and decorating techniques. From 2002 - 2013 Gary's work has won a total of nine National 1st Place Awards for Best Faux Finisher of the Year by the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America and by the American Painting Contractor. He also was named to the top spot by American Painting Contractor for Who's Who

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Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within a non-human animal, or of being aware of an external object or something within itself. In humans, consciousness has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, qualia, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is.

Patrick McCay (born 1952) is an Irish-born, Scottish/American painter currently residing in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He is currently Chair of the Visual Arts Department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

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Clarence Major is an American poet, painter, and novelist; winner of the 2015 "Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts," presented by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. He was awarded the 2016 PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award.

Stanley Meltzoff (March 27, 1917 - November 9, 2006) was an American painter and was most known for his marine paintings Stanley Meltzoff is also known for his grand classic paintings portraying science and history. His work is full of illusion, lending a surreal air to his consummately researched images. Web site reveals his process.

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Ken Marschall (born October 28, 1950) is an American painter and illustrator notable for his paintings of famous ocean liners, such as the RMS Titanic, RMS Lusitania, and the HMHS Britannic, and other transportation vessels including the Bismarck, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg. His paintings have been used in many books about the Titanic, most notably his depictions of the sinking, of which no photographs that could be used were taken. Marschall has served as consultant to many works about the Titanic, including James Cameron's Ghosts of the Abyss, as well as Cameron's film of the same name, the two-part A&E television specials Death of a Dream and The Legend Lives On, and the upcoming video game Titanic: Honor and Glory.

David Lund (born 1925 in New York City) is identified with the abstract expressionist painters of the New York School. His landscape oils done in the 1950s are exemplary of the bold combination of form, color and texture for which this group is celebrated. Lund taught at Cooper Union, Parsons, New York University, Fashion Institute of Technology, the Metropolitan Museum, the 92nd Street Y, the National Academy School of Fine Arts, and Columbia University. Some of his more recent exhibitions include the Turtle Gallery, Maine; HHAR Gallery, New York; Wingspread Gallery, Maine; Allport Associates Gallery, San Francisco; Bixby Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis; Sehwig Gallery, St. Louis; numerous shows at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery; Maine State Museum; Colby College, Maine; Worcester Art Museum; Butler Institute of American Art; Mid-America Arts Alliance; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; numerous shows at the National Academy Museum; New York Studio School; and the Toledo Museum of Art. His work is included in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas; Delaware Art Museum; Johnson Museum, Cornell University; Fort Worth Art Center; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, Rome; the Hassam Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts & Letters; and the Benjamin Altman Prize, National Academy

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Tim Lowly (born 1958 in Hendersonville, North Carolina) is a Chicago artist, musician, and teacher. He is known for compassionate egg tempera pictures of children in mysterious circumstances.

Danny Malboeuf (born 1960) is a visual artist and musician from Statesville, North Carolina. As kolaboy he is a member of the collective and a Senior Member of DeviantArt, where four of his paintings have received the site's top award. His musical project is Cowgirl in the Snow.

David Lund (born 1925 in New York City) is identified with the abstract expressionist painters of the New York School. His landscape oils done in the 1950s are exemplary of the bold combination of form, color and texture for which this group is celebrated. Lund taught at Cooper Union, Parsons, New York University, Fashion Institute of Technology, the Metropolitan Museum, the 92nd Street Y, the National Academy School of Fine Arts, and Columbia University.

Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

John Mascaro is a painter and self-taught architect working between New York and Los Angeles. Mascaro graduated with an MFA from the Slade School of Art in 2004. In 2008 he co-founded with Eleonore Morand after meeting at Acconci Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Mut's projects blur the division between painting and architecture, as seen most specifically in their "Restaurant 51" project at the [Cinémathèque Française] in Paris, France, and the "South Bronx Igloo project" in which a large cardboard igloo was fabricated atop a roof in the South Bronx section of New York.

Tom McGrath (born 1978 in New Milford, Connecticut, United States), is an artist based in New York City, USA. He received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2000 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2002. McGrath's painterly subjects often imply a moving vantage point and a windshield-like analogy between painting, surface and picture. His imagery evokes romantic road-trip, scenic overlooks, optical blind-spots, landscapes of "fly-over" country, nocturnes of Los Angeles and urban sprawl. The work seems to be depicted from the viewpoint of a car passenger, a tourist, a commuter, or a pedestrian. His work uses contradictory painting mannerisms filtered through landscape images of both an iconic cultural origin and a generic naturalism. His work is included in the public collections including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Yale Gallery of Art, New Haven, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, The Art Bank Program, U.S. Department of State, Washington D.C., The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, and The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY. He is represented by in New York.

Tony Martin (born 1937) is an American painter and new media artist known for his groundbreaking light and viewer interactive sculptures and installations,and the paintings associated with those works. His six decade painting career includes expressionistic figural work and abstraction developed from his life and environs.

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Don H. Marr is an American artist. His paintings reflect the romantic realism and seriocomic surrealism (or humorous satirical) genres, while using materials such as acrylic, oil pastels and gold leaf. His pieces frequently incorporate calligraphy. His realist paintings are housed in the permanent collections of the Arkansas Arts Center, the Arkansas Historical Society, and the Biedenharn Museum in Monroe, Louisiana. In the 1960s he was commissioned to do several large public works, including "Pine Bluff Pine" for the Pine Bluff, Arkansas public library. A native of Missouri, Marr received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953 from the University of Tennessee. He received his master's degree in fine art from the University of Arkansas in 1958. He taught art and art history at Hendrix College from 1959 to 2000. In 1991 he was named the Louis and Charlotte Cabe Distinguished Professor of Art.

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Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an American artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he previously taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a 1978 graduate of Otis College of Art and Design. An exhibition of his work, Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, was assembled by the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016.

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Arnold Mesches (August 11, 1923 – November 5, 2016) was an American visual artist.

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Ryan Joseph McGinness (born January 9th, 1972) is an American artist, living and working in Manhattan, New York. Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments. McGinness is interested in assuming the power of this anonymous aesthetic in order to share personal expressions. His work is in the permanent public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Cincinnati Art Museum, MUSAC in Spain, and the Misumi Collection in Japan.

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James David McNitt (born 1948) is an American painter and photographer. He has worked as a news photographer for United Press International (1974), a freelance marine photojournalist (1975–1982), and as a contract photographer, writer and editor for Newsweek International Special Projects (1982–2002). Since 2002, McNitt has concentrated on digital printmaking and mixed-media paintings, especially images that advocate awareness of climate change and other environmental issues. McNitt has contributed articles to Newsweek International, People and other periodicals and is the author of two books: “The Art of Computer Management,” and “The Home Video Sourcebook,”. He is also a member of the faculty at the Silvermine Guild Art Center in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he teaches digital imaging and printmaking.

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John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead singer of the late-1970s British punk band the Sex Pistols, which lasted from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is also the lead singer of post-punk band Public Image Ltd (PiL), which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again since 2009.

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Alan Leitner is an American abstract artist. He was born in 1947 in an ethnically diverse section of Los Angeles. Alan was the middle of three children in a Jewish family. He received his B.S. in art in 1971 from Woodbury University in Los Angeles, where he met his first wife who wanted to move to Hawaii. Also in 1971, he acquired an art foundry that produced blown glass, sculpture, ceramics and paintings, which contributed greatly to his understanding of art. In 1987, he received a M.F.A. in painting from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The graduate program required students to do some teaching, and through this teaching he met Alyn Brownley who at the time headed the art program at Leeward Community College. Brownley requested Alan to teach her art class for one semester while she pursued a move to University of Hawaii at Manoa. After graduation, Dr. John Conner, the department associate dean, offered Alan a full-time teaching position at Leeward Community College, where he is currently a professor. Alan has also taught at Honolulu Community College and University of Hawaii at Manoa. Leitner's art is abstract, utilizing muted earth tones as the main colors. He often affixes various objects to his canvases. Untitled #4, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is typical of his later work.

Benjamin Donald McCready (born August 14, 1951) is an American portrait painter. Ben McCready was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has painted more than 600 commissioned portraits. Notable portrait clients include President Gerald R. Ford, President Ronald W. Reagan, President George H. W. Bush, President James Earl Carter, Robert Redford, George Clooney, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Douglas, US Open/Wimbledon tennis champion Lleyton Hewitt, Mark McCormack (founder/chairman, IMG), Wayne Gretzky, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, U.S. Congressman Robert Kastenmeier, J. Peter Grace, John Dorrance, President Robben Fleming (University of Michigan), President Derek Bok (Harvard University), and President Harlan Hatcher (University of Michigan).

Jonathan Lerman (born 1987) is an American autistic savant outsider artist. He was born in Queens, NY, and currently resides in the upstate New York suburb of Vestal. He began to lapse into long silences at the age of two, and the next year he was diagnosed with autism. His IQ is purported to be 53. His artistic bent appeared at the age of 10 years in the form of charcoal-drawn faces—both people he knows and those he imagines. In 1999, he had his own solo exhibition at the gallery in New York City.

Francisco Alonzo "Frank" Martínez (August 9, 1924 – August 17, 2013) was an American artist. He painted murals of his Mexican American heritage.

Jay McCafferty (born February 21, 1948) is a California painter, video artist, and filmmaker.

David Ligare is an American contemporary realist painter. Contemporary Realism is an approach that uses straightforward representation but is different from photorealism in that it does not exaggerate and is non-ironic in nature.

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David Lozeau is an American artist and children's book writer who has achieved media recognition principally for his paintings and exhibits relating to the Day of the Dead. Based in San Diego, California, Lozeau is part of a modern art movement that depicts skeleton characters as if they were alive. His paintings also pay tribute to cars, motorcycles, and guitars which have led to collaborations with Harley-Davidson and Fender Guitar Company.

Terrance Lindall (born 1944) is an American artist and the co-director and chief administrator of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Lindall's illustrations have been published in Heavy Metal, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, among others.

Damian Loeb (born 1970) is an American artist. Loeb had his first solo show in 1999 at Mary Boone Gallery in New York and is currently represented by Acquavella Galleries. He has also exhibited at White Cube in London, the Jablonka Galerie in Cologne, and the Kunsthalle in Hamburg. A 2006 retrospective of his work was held at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut.

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Alan Leitner is an American abstract artist. He was born in 1947 in an ethnically diverse section of Los Angeles. Alan was the middle of three children in a Jewish family. He received his B.S. in art in 1971 from Woodbury University in Los Angeles, where he met his first wife who wanted to move to Hawaii. Also in 1971, he acquired an art foundry that produced blown glass, sculpture, ceramics and paintings, which contributed greatly to his understanding of art. In 1987, he received a M.F.A. in painting from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The graduate program required students to do some teaching, and through this teaching he met Alyn Brownley who at the time headed the art program at Leeward Community College. Brownley requested Alan to teach her art class for one semester while she pur

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John Miller (born 1954) is an artist, writer, and musician based in New York and Berlin. He received a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1977. He attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 1978 and received an M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in 1979. Miller worked as a gallery attendant at Dia:Chelsea. He is currently Professor of Professional Practice in Art History at Barnard College

Arthur Lerner (born 1929) is an American artist, known for his atmospheric figurative paintings and drawings, landscapes, and still lifes. He is sometimes described as a realist, but most critics observe that his work is more subjective than descriptive or literal. Associated with Chicago's influential "Monster Roster" artists early in his career, he shared their enthusiasm for expressive figuration, fantasy and mythology, and their existential outlook, but diverged increasingly in his classical formal concerns and more detached temperament. Critics frequently note in Lerner's art a sense of light that evokes Impressionism, delicate color and modelling that "flirts with dematerialization," and the draftsmanship that serves as a foundation for all of his work. The Chicago Tribune's Alan Artner lamented Lerner's comparative lack of recognition in relation to the Chicago Imagists as the fate of "an aesthete in a town dominated by tenpenny fantasts." Lerner's work has been extensively covered in publications, featured in books such as Monster Roster: Existential Art in Postwar Chicago, and acquired by public and private collections, including those of the Smithsonian Institution, Art Institute of Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, and Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, among many.

Edward Meneeley (born December 17, 1927 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States - d. December 29, 2012 in Weatherly, Pennsylvania) was an American artist who created paintings, sculptures and prints.

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Ken Marschall (born October 28, 1950) is an American painter and illustrator notable for his paintings of famous ocean liners, such as the RMS Titanic, RMS Lusitania, and the HMHS Britannic, and other transportation vessels including the Bismarck, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg. His paintings have been used in many books about the Titanic, most notably his depictions of the sinking, of which no photographs that could be used were taken.

David Ligare

Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within a non-human animal, or of being aware of an external object or something within itself. In humans, consciousness has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, qualia, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is. The topic of animal consciousness is beset with a number of difficulties. It poses the problem of other minds in an especially severe form because animals, lacking the ability to use human language, cannot tell us about their experiences. Also, it is difficult to reason objectively about the question, because a denial that an animal is conscious is often taken to imply that it does not feel, its life has no value, and that harming it is not morally wrong. The 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes, for example, has sometimes been blamed for mistreatment of animals because he argued that only humans are conscious. Philosophers who consider subjective experience the essence of consciousness also generally believe, as a correlate, that the existence and nature of animal consciousness can never rigorously be known. The American philosopher Thomas Nagel spelled out this point of view in an influential essay titled What Is it Like to Be a Bat?. He said that an organism is conscious "if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism"; and he argued that no matter how much we know about an animal's brain and behavior, we can never really put ourselves into the mind of the animal and experience its world in the way it does itself. Other thinkers, such as the cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, dismiss this argument as incoherent. Several psychologists and ethologists have argued for the existence of animal consciousness by describing a range of behaviors that appear to show animals holding beliefs about things they cannot directly perceive—Donald Griffin's 2001 book Animal Minds reviews a substantial portion of the evidence. Animal consciousness has been actively researched for over one hundred years. In 1927 the American functional psychologist Harvey Carr argued that any valid measure or understanding of awareness in animals depends on "an accurate and complete knowledge of its essential conditions in man". A more recent review concluded in 1985 that "the best approach is to use experiment (especially psychophysics) and observation to trace the dawning and ontogeny of self-consciousness, perception, communication, intention, beliefs, and reflection in normal human fetuses, infants, and children". In 2012, a group of neuroscientists signed the , which "unequivocally" asserted that "humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neural substrates."

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Ryan Mendoza (born October 29, 1971, in New York City) is an American painter. He works and lives between Naples and Berlin. In his paintings, he counterbalances old master techniques with contemporary themes. In 2012, Ryan and his then 8-month-pregnant wife Fabia were briefly arrested in Naples after an art performance in solidarity with the Russian punk-rock band Pussy Riot in front of their studio in Rione Sanità. His intimate diary Everything is Mine (Tutto è mio), curated by Simona Vinci, was released by the Italian publisher Bompiani in 2015.

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Daniel Merriam is a contemporary surrealist and is best known for his dry brush technique and imaginative style.

Robert Lentz (born 1946), is an American Franciscan friar and religious icon painter. He is particularly known for incorporating contemporary social themes into his icon work. He belongs to the Order of Friars Minor, and is currently stationed in Holy Name Province.

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Don Leicht (born 1946) is a visual artist who has worked as a painter and sculptor in the Bronx, New York City for over forty years. Leicht has had one person exhibitions in New York, Sweden and (Germany) and is an early figure in the New York City downtown scene in the 1970s, and in the subsequent Street Art and Graffiti movements.

William MacKendree is an American artist. He was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1948. He studied Philosophy and Visual Arts at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Following the completion of his university degrees, he left the U.S. to live and work in Greece between 1975 and 1982.

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Allan Linder (born 1966) is an American artist living in New York. He is a painter, sculptor, illustrator and writer. He uses a variety of media, but mostly acrylic paint on canvas.

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Harry McCormick (Bayonne, New Jersey, 1942) is a contemporary American painter noted for his closely observed renderings of shadow, light, and reflections in interior spaces. His paintings often capture one or two solitary individuals in moments of introspection. He was born in New Jersey on June 12, 1942 and is primarily self-taught as an artist.

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Roy Lerner

Benjamin Donald McCready (born August 14, 1951) is an American portrait painter. Ben McCready was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has painted more than 600 commissioned portraits. Notable portrait clients include President Gerald R. Ford, President Ronald W. Reagan, President George H. W. Bush, President James Earl Carter, Robert Redford, George Clooney, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Douglas, US Open/Wimbledon tennis champion Lleyton Hewitt, Mark McCormack (founder/chairman, IMG), Wayne Gretzky, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, U.S. Congressman Robert Kastenmeier, J. Peter Grace, John Dorrance, President Robben Fleming (University of Michigan), President Derek Bok (Harvard University), and President Harlan Hatcher (University of Michigan). McCready has been married to Anne Gray since 1985. They live in Madison, Wisconsin.

Robert Liberace (born January 2, 1967 in Pomona, New York) is an American realist artist. He attended the George Washington University, from which he received both his bachelor of liberal arts and masters of fine arts degrees. There he was also a recipient of a Morris Louis scholarship. Among his teachers was the painter Frank Wright, who he credits with having instilled into him a love of the old masters. Accomplished in both sculpture and painting, as a portraitist his commissioned subjects have included the 41st President of the United States George H.W Bush, ambassador Sol Linowitz, former United States National Portrait Gallery director Marc Pachter, the National Symphony Orchestra cellist Steven Honigberg, the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital patron Farid Srour and General Wallace M. Greene, the last of which resides in the Vermont State House. His sculptural commissions include the Our Lady of Vailankanni in marble, and the terracotta rendering of Mother Teresa for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in Washington, DC. He has been proclaimed by the Art Renewal Center to be one of several score of current "accredited", "living masters". In 2003 the National Portrait Society awarded him their grand prize. Liberace's work has been written about extensively by M. Stephen Dougherty, the executive editor of American Artist magazine. He is represented by the Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA and Charleston, South Carolina, the John Pence gallery in San Francisco, and the Legacy gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona He teaches at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, which was founded and headed by the late renowned painter Nelson Shanks, and the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia. He also holds painting and sculpture workshops in locations throughout the United States and abroad. Robert Liberace resides in Vienna, Virginia with his wife, the illustrator and artist Lina Liberace, and their two daughters. He is distantly related to the famed pianist Liberace. His mother is the poet Maire Liberace whose second book of verse "Lament in a Minor Key" was named "Book of the Year" by the Rockland County Library Associatoon for 2019.

Cesar Martinez

John Lees (born February 3, 1943) is an American contemporary expressionist artist who works primarily in painting. Lees received the 2005 Francis J. Greenburger Award and has also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symonds Art Purchase Award in 2010, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant in 1993 and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1989. His paintings are included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Fogg Art Museum, The New Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Arkansas Art Center, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Tucson Museum of Art.

John Mascaro is a painter and self-taught architect working between New York and Los Angeles. Mascaro graduated with an MFA from the Slade School of Art in 2004. In 2008 he co-founded with Eleonore Morand after meeting at Acconci Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Mut's projects blur the division between painting and architecture, as seen most specifically in their "Restaurant 51" project at the [Cinémathèque Française] in Paris, France, and the "South Bronx Igloo project" in which a large cardboard igloo was fabricated atop a roof in the South Bronx section of New York. Mascaro's paintings and structural experiments have been exhibited at Haven Arts in the South Bronx, New York, and Le Carré Noir in France.

Malcolm T. Liepke

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Environmental law in New Jersey

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César Martínez (artist)

John Lees (artist)

Arthur Lerner (born 1929) is an American artist, known for his atmospheric figurative paintings and drawings, landscapes, and still lifes. He is sometimes described as a realist, but most critics observe that his work is more subjective than descriptive or literal. Associated with Chicago's influential "Monster Roster" artists early in his career, he shared their enthusiasm for expressive figuration, fantasy and mythology, and their existential outlook, but diverged increasingly in his classical formal concerns and more detached temperament. Critics frequently note in Lerner's art a sense of light that evokes Impressionism, delicate color and modelling that "flirts with dematerialization," and the draftsmanship that serves as a foundation for all of his work. The Chicago Tribune's Alan Art

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Arnold Mesches

Jack Levine (January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010) was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.

Henry McDaniel

Robert A. Maguire (August 3, 1921 – February 26, 2005), or R. A. Maguire, was a twentieth-century American illustrator and fine artist. Known primarily for his crime noir paperback cover art, he has produced artwork for over 1,200 covers since 1950. Maguire is a Member Emeritus of The Society of Illustrators.

Jonathan Lerman

David Lund

James Michalopoulos (born 1951) is an American painter and sculptor. He is best known for his colorful interpretations of New Orleans. He has painted the landscape surrounding his home in Burgundy, France; cityscapes and street life in San Francisco and Boston; and anthropomorphically rendered animals.

Roy Lerner (born 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is an internationally exhibited American painter. He is a member of the New New Painters a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Kenworth Moffett in 1978 contemporaneously with the further development of acrylic gel paint as developed by the paint chemist Sam Golden. Lerner is also considered a trailblazer in the visual genre of hypertexture. Lerner is currently represented by Gallery Sam in Berkeley, California.

Tim Lowly

Cliff McReynolds is an American visionary painter from California. Active since the 1950s and popularly known from the 1970s on, his work has been seen in one man shows and group exhibits in New York City, Chicago, Washington D.C., Minneapolis, Milwaukee, San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oslo, Norway, New Delhi, India, and Tokyo, Japan. Since 1976, Pomegranate Publications has produced and distributed his work worldwide on posters, prints, cards, calendars, books and as picture puzzles. He has been listed in "Who's Who in American Art" since 1978.

Harry McCormick

Fred Machetanz (February 20, 1908 – October 6, 2002) was an Alaskan painter and illustrator who specialized in depictions of Alaskan scenes, people and wildlife. He first came to the territory in 1935, when he traveled to Unalakleet to visit his uncle, Charles Traeger, who ran a trading post there and spent 2 years developing a portfolio of Alaskan scenes. After leaving Alaska, he spent some time as an illustrator in New York, but longed to return to Alaska. He returned in 1942 after volunteering with the U.S. Navy and requesting a posting to the Aleutian Islands during World War II. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and was responsible for intelligence for the North Pacific Command. After the war, he trained for a short time at the Art Students League in New York, studying litho

John Lurie (born December 14, 1952) is an American musician, painter, actor, director, and producer. He co-founded The Lounge Lizards jazz ensemble, acted in 19 films, including Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law, composed and performed music for 20 television and film works, and produced, directed, and starred in the Fishing with John television series. In 1996 his soundtrack for Get Shorty was nominated for a Grammy Award, and his album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits has been praised by both critics and fellow musicians.

Johannes Michalski (c. 1936 – November 4, 2019) was a Belgian-born American painter. A double amputee, he painted by holding the brush with his mouth.

Benjamin McCready

Frank Martínez (artist)

John Levee (April 10, 1924 - January 18, 2017) was an American abstract expressionist painter who had worked in Paris since 1949. His father was M. C. Levee.

James Mitchell

Tom McGrath (born 1978 in New Milford, Connecticut, United States), is an artist based in New York City, USA. He received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2000 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2002. He is represented by in New York.

Cliff McReynolds

Henry Edison McDaniel (October 2, 1906 − March 2, 2008) was a watercolor artist of landscapes, trout and salmon fishing scenes.

Malcolm T Liepke (born October 31, 1953) is an American painter born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, but dropped out after a year and a half. He moved to New York and began studying, on his own, artists such as John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Diego Velázquez, James McNeill Whistler and Édouard Vuillard. In turn, his style has inspired others.

John Mascaro

Jim McNitt

Jonathan Lerman (born 1987) is an American autistic savant outsider artist. He was born in Queens, NY, and currently resides in the upstate New York suburb of Vestal. He began to lapse into long silences at the age of two, and the next year he was diagnosed with autism. His IQ is purported to be 53. His artistic bent appeared at the age of 10 years in the form of charcoal-drawn faces—both people he knows and those he imagines. In 1999, he had his own solo exhibition at the gallery in New York City. He has had personal exhibitions, and has also exhibited his work alongside others. He was also the subject of the MTV television program True Life in the episode "True Life: I Have Autism" to describe his life as an autistic savant.

English singer and songwriter Jess Glynne has released two studio albums, 18 singles (including six as a featured artist) and 17 music videos. Glynne made her debut on Clean Bandit's single "Rather Be" in January 2014, which peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart. The following month, she was featured on Route 94's single "My Love", which also topped the charts in the UK. Her debut solo single "Right Here" was released in July 2014 as the lead single from her debut album I Cry When I Laugh. The song peaked at number six in the UK. She again collaborated with Clean Bandit later that year on "Real Love". Further singles "Hold My Hand", "Don't Be So Hard on Yourself" and the Tinie Tempah track "Not Letting Go" also topped the UK charts, giving Glynne five number-one singles in the space

Fred Machetanz (February 20, 1908 – October 6, 2002) was an Alaskan painter and illustrator who specialized in depictions of Alaskan scenes, people and wildlife. He first came to the territory in 1935, when he traveled to Unalakleet to visit his uncle, Charles Traeger, who ran a trading post there and spent 2 years developing a portfolio of Alaskan scenes. After leaving Alaska, he spent some time as an illustrator in New York, but longed to return to Alaska. He returned in 1942 after volunteering with the U.S. Navy and requesting a posting to the Aleutian Islands during World War II. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and was responsible for intelligence for the North Pacific Command. After the war, he trained for a short time at the Art Students League in New York, studying lithography under Will Barnet, and then returned to Unalakleet in 1946. Machetanz married Sara Dunn, a writer, in 1947, and the two settled near Palmer, Alaska in 1951. They published several books together and collaborated on films for Walt Disney, the Territory of Alaska, and Encyclopædia Britannica. They also made many promotional and lecture tours through the lower 48 states from 1948 through 1960. The turning point in Fred's painting career came on April 21, 1962, when Bob Atwood, editor and publisher of the Anchorage Times, arranged for a one-man show of his paintings. The works at the show sold quickly, and the success allowed Fred to pursue painting full-time.

English singer and songwriter Jess Glynne has released two studio albums, 18 singles (including six as a featured artist) and 17 music videos. Glynne made her debut on Clean Bandit's single "Rather Be" in January 2014, which peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart. The following month, she was featured on Route 94's single "My Love", which also topped the charts in the UK. Her debut solo single "Right Here" was released in July 2014 as the lead single from her debut album I Cry When I Laugh. The song peaked at number six in the UK. She again collaborated with Clean Bandit later that year on "Real Love". Further singles "Hold My Hand", "Don't Be So Hard on Yourself" and the Tinie Tempah track "Not Letting Go" also topped the UK charts, giving Glynne five number-one singles in the space of one year and making her the second British female solo artist to achieve the tally after Cheryl. The album charted atop the UK Albums Chart and has since been certified triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for sales exceeding 900,000 copies. In January 2018, Glynne featured on the Rudimental-headed single "These Days" with Macklemore and Dan Caplen. With the single reaching number one in the UK, Glynne surpassed Cheryl to become the British female solo artist with the most chart-toppers in UK chart history. Glynne extended this lead further with the release of her second studio album's lead single "I'll Be There", which became her seventh number-one single, while additional singles "All I Am" and "Thursday" reached the top ten in the UK. Glynne released her second studio album Always In Between on 12 October 2018.

Tony Martin (artist)

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Johnny Rotten

John Lees

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John Lees (born February 3, 1943) is an American contemporary expressionist artist who works primarily in painting. Lees received the 2005 Francis J. Greenburger Award and has also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symonds Art Purchase Award in 2010, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant in 1993 and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1989. His paintings are included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Fogg Art Museum, The New Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Arkansas Art Center, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Tucson Museum of Art. Lees also served as an art professor for 40 years at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (1988–2011), the School of Visual Arts (1987–2005), Sarah Lawrence College (2000–2003), State University of New York at New Paltz (1996–2000), and Mt. San Antonio College (1971–1981).

Stanley Meltzoff

Edward Deloy Maryon

John Joseph Lydon

Ryan Mendoza (born October 29, 1971, in New York City) is an American painter. He works and lives between Naples and Berlin. In his paintings, he counterbalances old master techniques with contemporary themes. In 2012, Ryan and his then 8-month-pregnant wife Fabia were briefly arrested in Naples after an art performance in solidarity with the Russian punk-rock band Pussy Riot in front of their studio in Rione Sanità. His intimate diary Everything is Mine (Tutto è mio), curated by Simona Vinci, was released by the Italian publisher Bompiani in 2015. In 2016, Mendoza was ranked number 147 of the 500 most successful US artists born after 1966 by Artnet.

Don H. Marr is an American artist. His paintings reflect the romantic realism and seriocomic surrealism (or humorous satirical) genres, while using materials such as acrylic, oil pastels and gold leaf. His pieces frequently incorporate calligraphy. His realist paintings are housed in the permanent collections of the Arkansas Arts Center, the Arkansas Historical Society, and the Biedenharn Museum in Monroe, Louisiana. In the 1960s he was commissioned to do several large public works, including "Pine Bluff Pine" for the Pine Bluff, Arkansas public library.

Tom McGrath (artist)

Robert Liberace (born January 2, 1967 in Pomona, New York) is an American realist artist. He attended the George Washington University, from which he received both his bachelor of liberal arts and masters of fine arts degrees. There he was also a recipient of a Morris Louis scholarship. Among his teachers was the painter Frank Wright, who he credits with having instilled into him a love of the old masters. Robert Liberace resides in Vienna, Virginia with his wife, the illustrator and artist Lina Liberace, and their two daughters. He is distantly related to the famed pianist Liberace.

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Gary Lord (born 1952) is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based faux painting artist and teacher. He owns a decorative painting business, Gary Lord Wall Options and Associates Inc, and is the founder of Prismatic Painting Studio and ItsFauxEasy.com, a video-based faux painting teaching site. He has been teaching faux painting techniques for over 25 years via seminars, DVDs, the Internet, and best-selling books. He has also appeared on hundreds of television segments demonstrating faux painting and decorating techniques. From 2002 - 2013 Gary's work has won a total of nine National 1st Place Awards for Best Faux Finisher of the Year by the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America and by the American Painting Contractor. He also was named to the top spot by American Painting Contractor for Who's Who in Decorative Painting in America in 2007.