Tuesday, January 10

paper as Paint


collage [kəˈlɑːʒ kɒ- (French) kɔlaʒ]
n
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / 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. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a composition made in this way
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) any work, such as a piece of music, created by combining unrelated styles
[French, from coller to stick, from colle glue, from Greek kolla]
collagist  n
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