mixed-media

(adjective)

Artwork consisting of two or more different materials.

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Examples of mixed-media in the following topics:

  • Contour Line

    • More complex contours can imply shading values through interior outlines and may have line textures or be contrasted with mixed media.

  • Sculpture in Mesopotamia

    • This marble "mask" is all that remains of a mixed-media sculpture that also consisted of a wooden body, gold leaf "hair," inlaid "eyes" and "eyebrows," and jewelry.
    • Another sculpture of note is a mixed-media bull's head that once adorned a ceremonial lyre found in Puabi's tomb in Ur.

  • Contemporary Indian Art

    • Contemporary Indian art fuses multiple concepts and forms of media to express both traditional Indian and non-traditional themes.
    • First held in 2008, it is India's largest art fair and includes paintings, sculptures, photography, mixed media, prints, drawings, and video art.

  • Race and Ethnicity in Postmodernism

    • Primarily through a postmodern perspective, hooks has addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism.
    • Martin, mixed media collage on rag paper.

  • Types of Content

    • Some modern still life breaks the two-dimensional barrier and employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, computer graphics, as well as video and sound.
    • Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes.

  • Bronze Age Advancements in Metallurgy

    • Initially, bronze was made out of copper and arsenic, forming arsenic bronze, or from naturally or artificially mixed ores of copper and arsenic, with the earliest artifacts so far known coming from the Iranian plateau in the fifth millennium BCE.
    • An interesting mixed media object from this culture is the Nebra Sky Disk (c. 1600 BCE), which consists of a blue-green patina inlaid with gold symbols.

  • The Influence of Feminism

    • Chicago's masterpiece work is a mixed-media piece known as The Dinner Party, which is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum .

  • Dry Media

    • Dry media consist of pigment with no liquid carrier, and include such media as pencils, charcoal, chalk, pastels, crayons and Conte.
    • Dry media in drawing refers to media that are, obviously, not wet; that is, they consist of pigment with no liquid carrier.
    • In drawing, dry media generally refers to pencils, charcoal, ContĂ©, chalk, pastel, and crayon.
    • Most pencil cores are made of graphite mixed with a clay binder which leave grey or black marks that can easily be erased.
    • Compressed charcoal is charcoal powder mixed with a gum binder compressed into round or square sticks.

  • Color Schemes

    • A color scheme is the choice of colors that are used in range of media.
    • Color theory subdivides color into the "primary colors" of red, yellow and blue, which cannot be mixed from other pigments; and the "secondary colors" of green, orange and violet, which result from different combinations of the primary colors.
    • In color theory, a color scheme is the choice of colors that are used in range of media.

  • The Early Middle Ages

    • "Medieval Art" is a term applied to more than 1,000 years of art history in Western Europe and encompasses vast and divergent forms of media.
    • Medieval art was produced in many media, and the works that remain in large numbers include sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, metalwork, and mosaics, all of which have had a higher survival rate than fresco wall-paintings and works in precious metals or textiles such as tapestries.
    • These sources were mixed with the vigorous "Barbarian" artistic culture of Northern Europe to produce a remarkable artistic legacy.