collage
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He liked comic books, Pop art, collage, landscape, the miniature worlds of Joseph Cornell boxes: virtually anything modest and surprising, even self-effacing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Saar’s dear friend, artist and jeweler Neil Lane, recalls how she taught him to collage: slowly layering papers with matte medium and, of course, saving every scrap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
In the center of this collage is a giant, stern-faced Chávez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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
I remember it was a kind of collage, full of cutout pictures of circus life, with clowns and acrobats and jugglers and horses, and elephants, of course, lots of elephants.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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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
The Readymade—the found object transformed into art—has its roots in the Picasso’s and Braque’s Cubist collages, which incorporated scraps of newspaper, textiles, sheet music and wall paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Portraits, politically charged tabletop collages and quiet photographs that capture the simple vibrance of daily life are strewn across Regen’s 20,000 square feet of gallery space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
"I saw them putting up posters, I saw their collages, I saw the banners."
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
“We need to get cracking on our collages today since I want to finish this project before Thanksgiving.”
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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A collaged print by Liu Shiyuan presents a dizzying array of images—fruit, bees, jellyfish, shrouded figures, fabric samples—that is more disorienting than anything else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Yet a gilded opera theater still seems an unlikely home for Holzinger, 38, whose anarchic works are collaged from new and old text and music, often with sharply contrasting styles.
From New York Times ● May 28, 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
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
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His collaging instincts are still present, but here his visions are laced with a mystery that draws us in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
Angie Franklin, 39, enjoyed regularly collaging as a kid, and a sporadic visit to the collage class with a friend was a pleasant surprise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
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
So I was painting on the walls, I was collaging.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
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