A Little Of This, A Little Of That
What is 21st Century Abstract Mixed Media Painting?
Why do we artists paint like this?
Mixed Media Virtual Art Exhibition will showcase different artists in a stream of consciousness, visual style, and abstractions. Breathing new life into found objects, collaging different materials to create conversations between texture & content with abstract styles will be Open - Oct 2, 2020.
Deadline to Apply - Sept 20, 2020
Looking at the history of abstraction in Mixed Media in painting, we see the approach tackled with many veteran and famous artists through emerging and establishing artists to their canvases. Painting moved from objects recognizable to those no longer until we met our final fringe of the material canvas itself.
And, now, here we are, in the 21st century still tackling the canvas but with our intentions very different. We’re no longer advancing a theory, but are engaged in the act of painting in an emotive sense, as therapeutic release, where the artist chooses “inner journey” over outer reality. The common theme is one’s interest in taking that ‘inner journey’ in a self-conscious remove from the outside world, away from the fragmented commercial landscape and indulge in a “meditative, intimate, individual, excavating of self.”
Maybe we are still painting with the mixed media in the abstract manner to comment upon our current world of image-saturation.
Let's explore into the MIXED MEDIA.
