mixed median.
/ˌmɪks(t) ˈmiːdɪə/, U.S. /ˌmɪks(t) ˈmidiə/ With singular and plural agreement: the use of more than one medium, as a painting technique; (more generally) the use of a variety of media in any creative work, entertainment, etc. Frequently attributive. Cf. multimedia adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other performances > [noun]
jest1592
entremet1766
parlour trick1866
quête1903
Gesamtkunstwerk1939
mixed media1945
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > oil medium with distemper
mixed technique1935
mixed media1945
1916 Los Angeles Times 16 Jan. iii. 4/5 Throughout the month of January, a series of recent portraits,..the most of them being in the mixed medium of charcoal touched up with colored chalks, will be shown.]
1945 N.Y. Times 23 Dec. x. 4/4 The current spirited group exhibition at Macbeth's includes a truly remarkable large drawing of crows, in mixed media.
1969 Jrnl. Health & Social Behavior 10 85/2 Today's young and avant-guarde [sic] artists—film-makers, poets, painters, musicians, novelists, photographers, mixed media specialists.
1972 G. F. Brommer Drawing iv. 49 Paul Klee experimented freely with mixed media, as did his contemporaries in the German Bauhaus.
1992 ARTfocus Fall 10/1 A huge, mixed-media construction composed of ventilator shafts, mirrors, and glass panes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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