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The Earliest Mixed Media Artists
The term mixed media describes a work of art made with one or more material. The most popular use of mixed media was a significant trend in the development of art in the twentieth century. The most common is collage. The art critic Clement Greenberg suggested that collage, a type of mixed media where various items are combined into a single composition, was one of the most significant methods in the development of modern art. Greenberg puts the beginning of collage in the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the years between 1911 and 1913. Braque's "Fruit Dish" (1912) is identified by Greenberg as among the first genuine mixed media paintings, and Picasso's "Guitar" (1913) is actually an early collage that had significant ramifications for future years of art in the twentieth century.
The earliest mixed media artists, though they were not called mixed media artists, artists of the Byzantine Empire, 330 to 1453 A.D., frequently used gilded gold leaf on their paintings, mosaics, frescoes as well as manuscripts. The arts declined through the Dark Ages, but blossomed with the emerging of the Renaissance. In addition to working with tempera, a paint medium that dates to the ancient Egypt, oil painting became widely used. Many artists applied gold leaf to painted wood panels to achieve vibrant skies or glowing halos on religious panels.
The Cubist art movement commenced in Europe in the early years of the 20th century. It broke from hundreds of years of traditional painting by depicting objects as 3-dimensional images that may be painted from many perspectives. Space was no longer limited to the flat canvas; by using an analytical system, artists can fragment and change points of views.
Pablo Picasso along with Georges Braque are considered the fathers of Cubism. Even though they were working individually with no communication between them, both artists made works that were similar. By breaking down art to dimensional points of reference, they dealt with space and form rather than realistic images. In 1912, Picasso created his first real mixed media piece, "Still Life with Chair Caning." He pasted paper and oilcloth to canvas and combined them with painted areas. From 1912, Picasso used mixed media techniques to dimensional sculpture. The "Glass of Absinthe" done in 1914 is a vertical piece with lots of disparate things constructed together, while "Still Life" involved sticking waste of wood plus a piece of upholstery fringe together and painting them. A lot more realistic is his 1923 piece "The Lovers" which was done by using ink, watercolour paints and also charcoal on paper.
Mixed media art these days can be traced from drawing starting the work of early artists. Mixed media is now an available art form for both professional and amateur artists. Assemblage and collage can be found mixed with acrylic and watercolour painting, rubber-stamped art, sculpture as well as altered books. Fabric, ripped papers, inks, glitter and beads are discovering their way into works of fine art and also commercial items such as greeting cards and even quilts. The future of mixed media, it seems, is limited only by the creativity of artists and anything they could possibly get their hands on.
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