mixed media

noun

1. multimedia.
2. artistic media, as pen and ink, chalk, and graphite, used in combination:

   an old master drawing in mixed media.

mixed media

noun

1. 1. the integrated use of different forms of media, esp within the arts
   2. ( as modifier )

      mixed-media musical presentations

Other Words From

• mixed-medi·a adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mixed media¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

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From Popular-Science

Fellow winner Michelle Fox’s entry was a series of mixed media paintings verging on the abstract.

From Ozy

Those with a more mixed media diet were less likely to see her on the extreme end of the Democratic Party.

From Washington Post

What results is a kind of mashup concert, a virtuoso mixed-media DJ set tuned to a keen emotional pitch.

From The Daily Beast

At the age of three Taylor picked up an interest in the arts, which evolved into a passion for painting with mixed media.

From The Daily Beast

This is a time of expanding bigness in the art world, of noise, of numbers, of uber-artists, mixed-media, mega-collectors.

From The Daily Beast

This edition of Fotofest, its fifteenth, is titled View From Inside: Contemporary Arab Video, Photography and Mixed Media Art.

From The Daily Beast

The mixed-media collection evokes nostalgia for halcyon days through fragmented images of the past.

From The Daily Beast