Mixed media

Medium can refer to both to the type of art (e.g. painting, sculpture, printmaking), as well as the materials an artwork is made from

The term multi-media describes artworks made from a range of materials and include an electronic element such as audio or video

Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface

Bricolage refers to the construction or creation of an artwork from any materials that come to hand

Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought specially

The term installation art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time

A twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary

Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted

Kate Davis reflects on Eileen Agar’s Angel of Anarchy 1936–40