A “multiple media” artist is someone who has mastered the craft of more than one discipline; then through pre-visualization selects the media that best presents their vision to the viewing public.

The term “multiple media” should not be confused with mixed media; which is the process of using more than one type of media to complete a single visual statement.

A very good explanation is in the form of a quote from the American artist Man Ray 1890 – 1976, who was the founder of the Dada movement in New York.  He mastered and worked in photography, painting, sculpture and films. “I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.”

In general, multiple media artists are both master craftsmen and master artists whose main focus is on the finished results. (The final image)  Were as the pleasure comes from the process and the passion is derived from the results of the chosen process.

 “The process is the pleasure, the results is the passion”

Bob Orsillo ( Art Media published 2007 )

The Multiple Media Sequence:

The title of review was “The fusion art of Bob Orsillo”.  This was in response to Bob Orsillo’s “Alpha Sequence”  The Alpha Sequence  is collection of paintings, photography and sculpture exhibited together to form atmosphere and complete visual statement, however each individual work was a complete statement in it’s self.

The reviewer also wrote: “Standing in the center of the gallery, I felt the merging of different elements into a union in which nuclei combined to form more massive nuclei to create a wonderful vision for the mind.”

 The Alpha Sequence began in the 1970’s and was exhibited until the mid 1980’s when a fire destroyed a number of paintings

Multiple Media Artist

Underwater scene a mermaid with a trident reaches up to lighly touch the fingers of drownding sailor. In the distance sharks swim and his ship settles to teh sea floor. Copyright Bob Orsillo