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collage

an artwork created by pasting on a surface various materials such as magazine clippings, photographs, tickets, and other items not normally associated with each other

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college – an institution of higher learning

col·lage

(kō-läzh′, kə-)

a. An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color.

b. A work, such as a literary piece, composed of both borrowed and original material.

2. The art of creating such compositions.

3. An assemblage of diverse elements: a collage of conflicting memories.

v. col·laged, col·lag·ing, col·lag·es

v.tr.

To paste (diverse materials) over a surface, thereby creating an artistic product.

v.intr.

To create such an artistic product.

[French, from coller, to glue, from colle, glue, from Vulgar Latin *colla, from Greek kolla.]

col·lag′ist n.

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collage

(kəˈlɑːʒ; kɒ-; French kɔlaʒ)

1. (Art Terms) 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

2. (Art Terms) a composition made in this way

3. (Art Terms) any work, such as a piece of music, created by combining unrelated styles

[C20: French, from coller to stick, from colle glue, from Greek kolla]

colˈlagist n

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col•lage

(kəˈlɑʒ)

n.

1. a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings or parts of photographs.

2. a work produced by this technique.

3. a film or other work that shifts suddenly or abruptly from one scene or image to another.

[1915–20; < French, =colle paste, glue (< Greek kólla) + -age -age]

col•lag′ist, n.

collage

1. The combining of images from several photographs, usually rephotographing to provide a finished print.

2. A work of art created by attaching paper, wood, fabric, etc., onto a flat surface.

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Noun	1.	collage - a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image; "he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map" montage paste-up - a composition of flat objects pasted on a board or other backing; "they showed him a paste-up of the book jacket" photomontage - a montage that uses photographic images ikon, picture, icon, image - a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
	2.	collage - any collection of diverse things; "a collage of memories" aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Translations

كولاج: مُلْصَق مِن عِدَّةِ قِطَع

koláž

collagemontage

Collage

collage

kollázs

klippimynd

koliažas

kolāža

collage

коллаж коллажный

koláž

kolajyapıştırma resim

拼贴画

collage

[kɒˈlɑːʒ] N → collage m

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collage

[kəˈlɑːʒ kɒˈlɑːʒ] n (ART) → collage m

collage

n → Collage f

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collage

[kɒˈlɑːʒ] n (Art) → collage m inv

collage

(koˈlaːʒ) noun

a design made by pasting pieces of paper, cloth, photographs etc on to a surface.

References in periodicals archive ?

had his students create collaged Surrealist postcards.

Paper

To make this work, a collaged image had been scanned and enlarged from a small notebook page, perforated edge and all.

Jimmy Robert: Cubitt Gallery

Pavic endorses the latter variety, affirming that his goal in collaged works like Dictionary of the Khazars has been "to make literature, which is a nonreversible art, a reversible one"-one that pits itself against the deep-structure propulsion of narrative by rupturing its seemingly inflexible arc from birth to death while celebrating the strength of the human imagination (143).

Notes toward the musicality of creative disjunction, or: fiction by collage

Various photo-collage approaches were demonstrated: a cut photo collaged on top of another, two or more photos cut and collaged on black matt board, possible photo border considerations.

Expressing feelings through photo collage

What parts are collaged? Which illustrations are photomontages?

Picture books and the art of collage

Away from the troublesome business of dealing with musicians and acoustic space, sound timbre can be collaged, manipulated and looped within the environment of a PC without leaving home.

Tower of Winds

I Personally started making narrative collaged necklaces about 10 years ago, after being inspired by an artist friend, LaTrecia Raffety.