collage
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Over the course of the next half-century, she produced more than 5,000 works in crayon, oil and collage: landscapes and masklike images—amalgams of abstraction, figuration, flora and fauna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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
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
And two ballpoint pens—the top halves filled with water in which a cut-out collage of a London streetscape was suspended.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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
Among the nearly 100 works on view are sculptures in iron, wood, alabaster and clay as well as drawings, collages and experimental works using paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
He likes to cut out the cartoons and make collages.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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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
We collaged and put in our own boxes as care packages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
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
“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
I continue to turn the pages of my mother's beauty book, devouring everything: ink drawings, rouge-stick color smudges, flower petals, and collaged petit-paintings; beauty pamphlets, spintria prices, diagrams of women's bodies.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
Certainly, if you're at home collaging a vision board for fun with your friends, that sounds like a blast.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024
Victoria Lopez, 20, describes the collaging meetups as feeling like a balm for “the collective trauma and grief that’s been held over us these last three years.”
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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