collage
[kuh-lahzh, koh-]
- a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- a work of art produced by this technique.Compare assemblage(def 3).
- an assemblage or occurrence of diverse elements or fragments in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition: The experimental play is a collage of sudden scene shifts, long monologues, musical interludes, and slapstick.
- a film that presents a series of seemingly unrelated scenes or images or shifts from one scene or image to another suddenly and without transition.
- to make a collage of: The artist has collaged old photos, cartoon figures, and telephone numbers into a unique work of art.
Origin of collage
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All the walls were collaged and painted and covered in quotes.
You can just see one plane behind the collaged sculpture; Mies blacked out details of others.
collage
- an art form in which compositions are made out of pieces of paper, cloth, photographs, and other miscellaneous objects, juxtaposed and pasted on a dry ground
- a composition made in this way
- any work, such as a piece of music, created by combining unrelated styles
Word Origin
C20: French, from coller to stick, from colle glue, from Greek kolla
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Word Origin and History for collaged
collage
n.
1919, from French collage "a pasting," from Old French coller "to glue," from Greek kolla "glue." Earliest reference is in Wyndham Lewis.
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