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collage

[kuh-lahzh, koh-] / kəˈlɑʒ, koʊ- /
NOUN
mixture of pictures
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She arranges four painted notebook covers together on her lap, forming a collage.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

In the 1980s Hockney invented a kind of photo collage he dubbed "joiners" that used slightly different images to produce a patchwork akin to the cubist painting of his hero Pablo Picasso.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

These connections made anime and martial arts cinema’s incorporation into hip-hop, an art form built on collaboration and sonic collage, somewhat inevitable.

From Salon May 31, 2026

It’s like making a collage from magazine clippings—the only difference is that the collages are digital and easily shared with anyone, even strangers.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 2026

Mr. Carlon told us to work on a collage today.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

In the ’80s came his extraordinary multi-image photographic collages of friends including writer Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy and such landmarks as the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Canyon and Pearblossom Highway.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Ever since he began snapping Polaroids in the 1960s, Hockney maintained an intense relationship with photography, taking thousands of pictures and using some in collages and other works.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

And Shane Keisuke Berkery addresses his Irish-Japanese heritage with a painting that collages exaggerated images drawn from westerns, Irish photographic history, and his own family’s snapshots.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

"I saw them putting up posters, I saw their collages, I saw the banners."

From BBC Feb. 14, 2026

We use the same-color paper for our collages.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

A collaged flier for the meeting showed a skeleton hand clutching a butterfly above a succinct description written in gothic font: “A group discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2024

But GenAI can do more than create collaged images and help write emails -- it can also design new drugs to treat disease.

From Science Daily Feb. 7, 2024

At the diagonally opposite corner of the country, romantic notions of woodland collaged with vibrant crimson on crisp-autumn mornings are unlike almost anywhere else on earth.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2023

Davis and Klampanis’s composition, “Cavafy Ghost,” featured Davis’s virtuosic vocals across several octaves and collaged several Cavafy poems.

From New York Times May 4, 2023

Their floors were always collaged with stray bits of paper, and trapped flies waved for help from the gummy killing fields of their tabletops.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

It’s where scrapbooking, collaging and journaling come together.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 2, 2025

Questions of what people own, and control are increasingly supplanted by questions of who or what people are, replacing clashes of classes with the collaging of identities and morals.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2024

Javadi incorporates similar techniques, collaging swaths of colorfully patterned fabric with black-and-white archival images of elegantly dressed, bareheaded women.

From Washington Post Aug. 24, 2022

You’re not collaging together your creativity on the road with little fragments — I’ve been able to work with a greater sense of singularity.

From New York Times May 17, 2022

Mr Wightman said he begins each piece by imagining and painting a "cartoon" of a scene before collaging the surface with hundreds of pieces of wallpaper.

From BBC Apr. 21, 2022




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