Mixed Media

Right now the final stop on our visit to Fine Arts

Types and the Media They Love is a less known style called

Mixed Media art.

Mixed Media art can come from pretty much

anything. I've seen mixed media figure art made from

paper maché you would swear were real people. At the end

of the day, mixed media allows an artist to create three

dimensional wall art, dynamic sculptures, and often fine art

works which cannot be easily categorized.

There's a great story, which gives a perfect example

of how deep and far reaching any artist can be when they

become a master of their chosen media:

Yousuf Karsh, a man whose work with photography

is as famous as it is breathtaking; once had the Spanish

cellist and composer Pablo Casals as a subject at his studio.

Yousuf Karsh was so moved by listening to Pablo Casals play

Bach during the photo session he could not attend to taking

pictures. Yousuf, who never had anyone pose facing away

from the camera before, was questioned about this decision

later but all he said in response was, "It just seemed

right."

Some time thereafter the photograph went on exhibit

at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. Every day, as the

story goes, an elderly gentleman would come and stand

starring at the painting without thought to the countless

minutes which would pass. A museum curator, no longer

able to restrain his curiosity, approached the elderly visitor

and politely inquired as to why he came here everyday to

stare at the same painting for so long. The curator was met