What does collage mean?

Definitions for collage
kəˈlɑʒcol·lage

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. collage, montagenoun

    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"

  2. collagenoun

    any collection of diverse things

    "a collage of memories"

GCIDE

  1. collagenoun

    the technique of producing a work of art that is a collage.

  2. collagenoun

    any composite object, whether abstract or concrete, created by assembling components of varied types.

  3. collagenoun

    (Cinema) a film having scenes of different types or from different locations displayed in rapid succession without transitions.

Wiktionary

  1. collagenoun

    A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.

  2. collagenoun

    A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc..

  3. collagenoun

    The technique of producing such a work of art that is a collage.

  4. collageverb

    To make into a collage.

  5. Etymology: Borrowed from collage

Wikipedia

  1. Collage

    Collage (, from the French: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pastiche, which is a "pasting" together.) A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. The origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form of novelty. The term Papier collé was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of modern art.

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  1. collage

    A collage is a piece of art created by assembling various types of materials, often different kinds of paper and photographs, onto a surface. These different materials typically form a new picture or visual outcome that may convey a different theme or narrative. It can be a combination of both physical materials or digitized images in digital art. The term is derived from the French word "coller" meaning "to glue."

Wikidata

  1. Collage

    Collage is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. A collage may sometimes include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. The origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form of novelty. The term collage derives from the French "coller" meaning "glue". This term was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of modern art.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of collage in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of collage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of collage in a Sentence

  1. Jerald Podair:

    This is the most emotion an American president has ever shown on camera, i can almost guarantee that when there is some sort of collage shown of this president's presidency, this one moment will be in there.

  2. The Swedish Academy:

    By means of her extraordinary method – a carefully composed collage of human voices – Alexievich deepens our comprehension of an entire era.

  3. Isaac Briones:

    We were just playing around, talking about jokes and stuff, he was like, one of the nicest people I knew. He was so caring. Martin's brother, Miguel,posted a photo collage to Instagramwith a caption that read.

  4. Josephine Meckseper:

    The flag is a collage of an American flag and one of my dripped paintings which resembles the contours of the United States, i divided the shape of the country in two for the flag design to reflect a deeply polarized country in which a president has openly bragged about harassing women and is withdrawing from the Kyoto protocol and UN Human Rights Council.

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