What is mixed material art?

Modern art is a product of Western industrial civilization, and industrial civilization is a product of Western rationalism. Everyone admits that the industrial civilization, which arose in the West and replaced the agricultural civilization, has had epoch-making significance for our entire human history. The rapid economic development brought about by this civilization has caused the traditional fine arts to change greatly in its function of social responsibility. For more and more artists and audiences, the traditional painting and sculpture can no longer combine the functions of record, plot, beautification, dissemination and expression of ideas in a multi-dimensional and diversified way, and the detailed division of labor in society caused by the high development of modern science and technology has had a significant impact on the separation of the functions of traditional fine arts. The development of science and technology is the direct cause of modern art. Photography and television have replaced the recording and plotting functions of traditional fine arts; the description and study of the rules of beauty have nourished designism and catered to the standards of mass consumption; the function of dissemination has been handed over to the advertisement and the public *** media system; after traditional fine arts have withdrawn from the most realistic imitation of color and modeling, the independent expressive power of the brushstrokes, the structure, and the materials have emerged, and the latent power of expression of ideas has been revealed. After the traditional art was withdrawn from the most realistic imitation of color and shape, the independent expressive power of brushwork, structure, and various materials emerged, and the latent expression of ideas began to recover. From then on, modern art is no longer a symbol of meaning, but an expression of ideas. Mixed material production is adapted to the development of modern art, which is adapted to the needs of the times and the artistic perception of modern life.

The difference in visual perception brought about by mixed-material art has been explored and researched by many artists. Its power lies in the fact that it has first changed our traditional aesthetic habits of art works in the past, and then impacted the art concepts we have taken for granted from the bottom up. It has won the admiration and love of artists, and at the same time, it has also satisfied people's needs in art aesthetics, bringing people diversified choices and diversified art forms. In the industrial society, although the modern industrial production attaches importance to the performance of the material, touch and so on, but for the purpose of practicality it is impossible to dig deep into all the richness of the material, however, the art practice can be conveyed through the physical form of the material a certain meaning of life. The use of ready-made materials and collage is a result of the rapid development of modern industry, which has led to the revival of people's nature of being close to nature and yearning for nature. The creative use of many composite materials expands the expressive power, imagination and infectious power of the works, and fully explores the possibilities of various materials.

The use of mixed media is a feature of much modern art. Although its exact origin needs to be further researched, a series of art movements since the 20th century, from Cubism, Dadaism to Popism, have played an extremely important role in promoting the change of artists' creative concepts and the use of composite materials. Picasso helped Western art cross the threshold of imitating reality, provided art with a new language, and led art into a world of free creation. Abstract art and many genres and styles have evolved sensationally on the fertile ground of visual formal beauty expanded by Picasso. Duchamp, on the other hand, changed the traditional conception of art, and at the same time changed the course of Western art by sending ready-made products into the exhibition halls, creating a new proposition of letting art serve ideas. He made a subversive revolution in the cultural connotation and conception of art itself. The readymade products in his life and his experiments with various materials can become his works, and the way of existence of his works breaks the boundaries of painting and sculpture in the traditional sense. A considerable number of postmodern genres and art forms have been influenced by Duchamp and have turned his artistic ideas into a powerful movement. Looking at the art movements since the 20th century, although the dominant artistic ideas behind them are different, the use and exploration of synthesized materials has been widely adopted by artists as a change in visual habits and perceptions in the creation of modern art. It is obvious that the subjectivity of materials in art works has been continuously increased. Materials can create brand new art forms and styles. The use of such means, in essence, is a breakthrough in the traditional art form, the material is in the subordinate position of the concept of bondage, which inadvertently promotes the artist to the traditional concept of art, the form of deepening the understanding. Undoubtedly, it has injected new vitality into the ancient art. All this marks the artistic language of modern art, pioneering creative thinking and free experimental characteristics of modern art and modern, post-modern art trend in the same pace, integration, emphasizing the diversity of art forms and multi-dimensional, emphasizing the material and technology of the comprehensive, multiple, reflecting the hidden in the visual form of the times.

In material art, both traditional graphic works and three-dimensional installations with avant-garde concepts take material as one of the basic elements and utilize different techniques to express concepts and ideas. With the change and influence of modern art on traditional art concepts, the study of modern mixed materials has been established in recent years in major art schools in China. Instead of simply piling up a variety of materials, artists utilize a certain characteristic of the material, change its external features and give it new forms and connotations, so that it produces new visual effects and gives people aesthetic enjoyment. Material works have many logical components of compositionism to a certain extent, but the more prominent material factor, which exceeds the general composition is that it has a strong sense of material. In addition, the cultivation of creative thinking is also one of the main purposes of teaching, and the combination of personal thinking triggered by social change and cultural impact with comprehensive materials, downplaying the difference between painting, highlighting personal understanding, and tapping the creative potential of the effect is obvious. Materials in modern art creation began to come from behind the scenes to the foreground, its own unique expressive power was found, valued and began to be widely studied.

Because of the continuous development of artistic concepts, the range of materials for artistic creation is also expanding. Certain materials are suitable for certain modeling, and the proper choice of materials has a multiplier effect on the performance of works. Artists generally choose materials through their preference for materials and familiarity with their properties, as well as the art form to be expressed and the artistic concepts to be expressed. Materials have expanded from the traditional cloth, paper, wood, stone, ceramics, lacquer, wood panels, and fibers to include metal, wax, gunpowder, chemicals, computer images, and arbitrary readymade products. Art forms have thus blurred the obvious boundaries. Therefore, we can only select, utilize, and give full play to the textural characteristics and expressive power of materials that are suitable for specific shapes from a practical point of view, so that we can show their artistic value by applying them according to the materials. In order to explore the visual arts constantly used as a new material, provides a new starting point.

With people's wisdom, discovery and creation, integrated materials will be more rich and complete the charm of the visual arts. We master more comprehensive material production performance and experience, we also mastered the means and language of modern art, artists continue to explore and efforts, modern art of comprehensive materials in the types and specific ways of expression are increasingly rich and perfect. More and more new materials are being widely used in new forms and new ways of expression. The development and comprehensive use of materials has unlimited space for development, and people are increasingly aware of the infinite charm that the plasticity and randomness of comprehensive materials and processes bring to the language of art, as well as its rich potential in expressing the complex and subtle sensory images of the aesthetic subject.

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