collage
Americannoun
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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.
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a work of art produced by this technique.
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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.
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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.
verb (used with object)
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to make a collage of.
The artist has collaged old photos, cartoon figures, and telephone numbers into a unique work of art.
noun
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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
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a composition made in this way
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any work, such as a piece of music, created by combining unrelated styles
Other Word Forms
- collagist noun
Etymology
Origin of collage
1915–20; < French, equivalent to colle paste, glue (< Greek kólla ) + -age -age
Example Sentences
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Man Ray also built ingenious collages, bas-relief constructions and elegant chess sets.
It is this amazing collaboration that happens, this collage that gives the impression of a character, and that’s really special.
From Los Angeles Times
Among the nearly 100 works on view are sculptures in iron, wood, alabaster and clay as well as drawings, collages and experimental works using paper.
Officials have not yet released a detailed list of the stolen works, but according to Folha de São Paulo newspaper, a collage Matisse made for the limited-edition art book Jazz is among those taken.
From BBC
The Instagram post promoting the handbag, which has a label to say it was made using AI, shows a "surreal" collage of models spliced between Valentino logos and its DeVain bag.
From BBC
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