Definition of collage

Collage is an artistic composition of often diverse elements in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition.

"Black Collage" by Robert Nickle

Collage // the exploitation of chance and deliberation

Collage is an art form and a technique in which the work of art is made by gluing pre-existing materials or objects attached as part of a two-dimensional surface, exploiting both chance and deliberation, it is used to heighten visual engagement in the presentation of an idea and, more importantly, to release hidden associations in the issues of a design project. The word collage derives its name from the French verb coller, which means to glue. Max Ernst, the author of a collage graphic novel, Une Semaine de Bonté (1934), once said: “

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.”

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