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collage

[kuh-lahzh, koh-] / kəˈlɑʒ, koʊ- /
NOUN
mixture of pictures
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In the center of this collage is a giant, stern-faced Chávez.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

The groundbreaking photographer and multimedia artist created a metallic blue photo collage celebrating jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 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

Then she printed up the photos and made me a collage of our day.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

In the 1970s, he became intrigued by the Polaroid camera, making hundreds of collages which played with space and perspective.

From BBC Jun. 12, 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

Using AI to generate images, Mr. Park collages these pictures together, then runs the result through CRT TVs, replicating the flickering, eerie results in photorealistic canvases.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

Why not make big printouts of the digital collages and call it a day?

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 2026

We taught the children how to make pot holders out of yarn and how to glue rice, glitter, and tinsel to paper plates to make collages for their folks.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

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

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

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

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

But taking all these layers, collaging it, and then something new rises up above it that is informed by all these layers.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2022

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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