Fine Art Glossary
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Mixed Media PaintingA mixed media painting employs multiple media to create a final piece. For example, a work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage is considered a mixed media painting. |
Modern (1880-1945):all media. The term Modernism generally refers to new forms of art that are more appropriate to the present time. Modern art has been identified as the succession of art movements by critics since Realism and culminating in abstract art up to 1945. By that time, Modernism had become a dominant idea of art and the Modernist viewpoint was theorized by the American art critic Clement Greenberg. |
Mono-Ha (1960s-1970s):Mono-Ha (1960s-1970s): sculpture. Mono-ha refers to the Japanese group of artists working in the 1960s and 1970s, who used both natural and man-made materials in their work. They are best known for actually rearranged materials to achieve a final product instead of creating works from scratch. |
Monochrome/ MonochromaticMonochrome or monochromatic refers to any work done in gradations of a single color. |
MonolithA monolith is a sculpture or piece of architecture created from a single block of stone. |
MontageThis term refers to a design created by overlapping materials creating the final image. |
Montage / PhotomontageThis term refers to a single image formed from assembling many existing images such as photographs or prints. |
Mosaic A mosaic is a design created by affixing small pieces of color, or tesserae, made of marble, glass or ceramic to a base. |
MotifThis term refers to the subject of a painting or a distinct element found in a work of art. |
MuralA mural is any type of painting created directly on a wall surface. |