December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Modern Western art has embraced many combinations of media. Edgar Degas (1834–1917), for example, combined monoprints with pastel. The twentieth century saw a broadening of this approach. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and Georges Braque (1882–1963) combined collage and painting while Paul Klee (1879–1940) often combined pen and ink, watercolor, collage, and oil in the same work. Later in the century, Pop artists Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) and Andy Warhol (1928–1987) combined silkscreen images with acrylic paint. Today, the art world will tolerate almost any combination of media.
The term “multimedia” refers to artworks that combine quite disparate disciplines. For instance, a piece might combine handwritten text ...