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)
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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Using AI to generate images, Mr. Park collages these pictures together, then runs the result through CRT TVs, replicating the flickering, eerie results in photorealistic canvases.
Visually, “Sun Ra: Do the Impossible” strives to be a representation of its subject’s floating collage of philosophies, theologies and ecstatic musical aspirations.
Instead the effect is a visual and aural collage.
Why not make big printouts of the digital collages and call it a day?
From Los Angeles Times
"I saw them putting up posters, I saw their collages, I saw the banners."
From BBC
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