collage (redirected from collaging)

col·lage  (k-läzh, k-)

n.

1.

a. An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color.

b. A work, such as a literary piece, composed of both borrowed and original material.

2. The art of creating such compositions.

3. An assemblage of diverse elements: a collage of conflicting memories.

v. col·laged, col·lag·ing, col·lages

v.tr.

To paste (diverse materials) over a surface, thereby creating an artistic product.

v.intr.

To create such an artistic product.

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[French, from coller, to glue, from colle, glue, from Vulgar Latin *colla, from Greek kolla.]

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col·lagist n.

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collage [kəˈlɑːʒ kɒ- (French) kɔlaʒ]

n

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) an art form in which compositions are made out of pieces of paper, cloth, photographs, and other miscellaneous objects, juxtaposed and pasted on a dry ground

2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a composition made in this way

3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) any work, such as a piece of music, created by combining unrelated styles

[French, from coller to stick, from colle glue, from Greek kolla]

collagist  n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	collage - a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image; "he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map" montage paste-up - a composition of flat objects pasted on a board or other backing; "they showed him a paste-up of the book jacket" photomontage - a montage that uses photographic images ikon, picture, icon, image - a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
	2.	collage - any collection of diverse things; "a collage of memories" aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Translations

collage [kɒˈlɑːʒ] N → collage m

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collage [kəˈlɑːʒ kɒˈlɑːʒ] n (ART) → collage m

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collage

n → Collage f

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collage [kɒˈlɑːʒ] n (Art) → collage m inv

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collage [kɒˈlɑːʒ] n (Art) → collage m inv

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collage

n collage [koˈlaːʒ]

a design made by pasting pieces of paper, cloth, photographs etc on to a surface. plakskildery كولاج: مُلْصَق مِن عِدَّةِ قِطَع колаж koláž collage; montage die Collage κολάζ collage kollaaž کولاژ؛ تکه چسبانی kollaasi collage קוֹלָאג' कोलाज, कागज कपड़े इत्यादि के टुकड़ों से चित्र बनाने की कला kolaž kollázs kolase klippimynd collage コラージュ 콜라주 koliažas kolāža kolaj collage collage kolaż colagem colaj коллаж koláž lepljenka kolaž collage ศิลปการสร้างภาพจากชิ้นส่วนเล็กๆ ที่นำมาปะติดปะต่อกัน yapıştırma resim, kolaj 拼貼畫 колаж کولاژ ، نمونہ nghệ thuật cắt dán 抽象派的拼贴画