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collage

[kuh-lahzh, koh-] / kəˈlɑʒ, koʊ- /
NOUN
mixture of pictures
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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

It offers a somewhat surreal vision of the Western U.S. and the many contradictions it contains—fame and loneliness, rural and urban, traditional and contemporary—in a sumptuous if disjointed collage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The digital collage gives way to a more familiar cooking-show fantasy.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

In the center of this collage is a giant, stern-faced Chávez.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

A dizzying collage of smells, moments, emotions, longings sped through Sierra’s entire body.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

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

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

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

He likes to cut out the cartoons and make collages.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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

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

Formats include thickly bound volumes, individual collaged sheets and framed grids that repeat the same image 20 or 30 times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

“Armstrong archives and recontextualizes his public life by hand, to be layered and collaged onto the walls of his private life,” she said.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 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

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

However, there is wine available at this Atwater Village bar, along with the main entrée of the meetup: magazine collaging.

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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