Definitions for collages

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collages col·lage

Spelling: [kuh-lahzh, koh-]

IPA: /kəˈlɑʒ, koʊ-/

Collages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in collages (acegllos).

Definitions for collages

noun

1. 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.
2. a work of art produced by this technique. Compare assemblage (def 3).
3. an assemblage or occurrence of diverse elements or fragments in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition:
4. 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)

1. to make a collage of:

Origin of collages

1915-20; French, equivalent to colle paste, glue (Greek kólla) + -age -age

Examples for collages

“This is my collage about a farm,” he said pointing out a rake, plant, and chicken.

The convention of reading is broken; the text is manipulated like an image and offered as a collage to the reader.

The artistic technique of collage is based on a logic of choices beyond those of realistic representations.

An Afghan instructor explained the concept of collage in Dari.

Galeria is a collage of quotations: columns, chrome black tables, panels with English paisley fabric.

collage, as a technique, anticipates the generalized stage of sampling and compositing.

Hartigan based it on a collage of Life magazine snippets that included ads for toothpaste and food shots.

He held in horror this shameful half-marriage that the language of slang had baptized, as with a stain: collage.

In the whiche Universite is no collage founded by eny quene of England hidertoward.

The risk with collage is that it can seem slapdash or myopic, its meaning opaque to anyone but the artist.