What is Mixed Media art?

Mixed Media art combines multiple materials or techniques in a single work-paint with collage, photography with drawing, digital elements with traditional media. The approach has roots in Dada and Surrealist experiments combining disparate materials to create unexpected juxtapositions. Mixed media allows artists to exploit different materials’ unique qualities-photographic realism, painterly texture, found object associations-within unified compositions. Contemporary artists across Pop Surrealism and other genres frequently work in mixed media, combining traditional and digital approaches. The technique’s flexibility supports the genre-blending characteristic of contemporary imaginative art. Explore mixed media artworks on Surrealism Today.