Mixed Media Arts

Today's topic is: Mixed Media Arts

Mixed Media Arts is artwork made using a combination of different types of materials. It does not require any software or application; it just requires a canvas, paintbrush, and other physical forms of art. You could have a canvas with a splatter of paint, a newspaper clipping, a few stickers, a piece of ribbons, a half-gone picture, and a piece of fabric and call that a Mixed Media Arts. So, as you can guess from its name, Mixed Media Arts does not have to be a specific thing; it can be any piece of art full of other types of art. But then again, it can also be a specific art drawn using a combination of stuff. For example, you could make a scenery using paint and scraps of paper.

Mixed Media Arts gained popularity in 1912, after the first Mixed Media Artist Pablo Picasso created his first collage, Still Life with Chair. He used many things in his collage, including paper, cloth, paint and rope. It quickly gained popularity among artists then, and later on many famous artists followed his way of art, including Georges Braque. 

Mixed Media Arts is a really nice form of Art. It gives artists the freedom of taking their imagination to another level. Mixed Media Arts is my favorite type of art.

Which type of Mixed Media Arts do you prefer: A piece of mixed art that has no literate meaning, or a piece of a mixed art that uses a combination of things to make a meaningful picture? Let us know in the comments! 

Davis, Kate. “Mixed media – Art Term.” Tate, ?, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/mixed-media. Accessed 3 February 2022.