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proof that stealing scraps and gluing them down can outclass any blank canvas
means A work of art made by sticking assorted materials—paper, fabric, photographs, scraps—onto a surface to form a composite image.
from From French 'collage,' meaning 'a gluing' or 'pasting,' built on 'coller' ('to glue') from 'colle' ('glue'), which traces back to Greek 'kolla,' the word for glue. The artistic sense was popularized in the early 20th century, when modernist painters made cutting-and-pasting a deliberate technique rather than a child's craft.
- origin
- named from French coller, to glue
- art rebels
- Picasso and Braque pioneered it around 1912
- dada weapon
- used to mock and dismantle bourgeois fine art
- hannah hoch
- sliced magazines to skewer Weimar gender politics
- medium-proof
- works in paper, sound, film, and data alike
les demoiselles d'avignon — pablo picasso's 1907 painting combining fragmented female figures that helped pioneer cubism
merz picture 32 a — kurt schwitters' 1920 assemblage mixing torn tickets, wood, and found materials
untitled film stills — cindy sherman's 1977-1980 series of 69 photographs combining costume, performance, and cinema imagery