1A piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.

1. 1.1mass noun The art of making collages.
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   • One of my walls was covered in a collage of random pictures and photos.
   • He has exhibited all over the world with creations that range from collages and sketches to stone rubbings and oil paintings of such richness and depth that the canvas takes one year to dry.
   • Subsequently I cleaned up the images in PhotoShop, printed the collage on canvas art paper, and had the work framed as Christmas gifts for my mother and sister.
   • Invite the students to create a collage that incorporates the pictures into their compositions.
   • The artist has approached the large open space of the gallery as more than just a venue to display her paintings, collages and other works done in various media.
   • Exhibiting artist, David Soul, is pictured with his A4 sized artwork, Energy, which is a collage made from paintings, drawings and clippings from The Other Echo.
   • This exhibition includes videos, photographs, drawings and collages along with the suits worn by the team.
   • This was an aluminum, plywood, and corrugated-plastic shed decorated with a grisly paper collage and urban junk.
   • Gabriel Orozco usually installs his photos interspersed with other works - drawings, collages, and sculpture.
   • Students hike, sketch from desert wildlife, take photos, make collages and abstract compositions.
   • In the President Elect collage, the photograph of Kennedy is in black and white; in the painting it's depicted hi color.
   • About 50 children took part in the Down My Street competition, creating drawings, collages and photographs of where they live.
   • I'm especially proud of the cover, a photo collage illustrating important moments in the lives of our members.
   • There were sketches and paintings and collages and images of the tsunami disaster.
   • The art work is fascinating, a collage of drawings, odd pictures, and mostly white text on black background.
   • At the end of this month, your team will present your report with the facts and a poster, a diagram, a collage, or something creative that will represent your country.
   • Braque created his first collage using only paper in the summer of 1912.
   • The morning session was called working with emotions, and enabled youngsters to make collages and drawings from toys or photographs special to them.
   • In these works a few loose curlicue shapes and drips in midnight blue are painted on the cream-colored paper collage.
   • Drawings, paintings, projects, models and collages from individuals and groups of all ages are welcomed.
2. 1.2 A collection or combination of various things.
   a collage of musical genres

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   • Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse).
   • For its first UK tour, the company performs Event, a collage devised for each venue and combining repertory dance with elements of a new piece, Views on Stage, which will be premiered in Edinburgh.
   • The album features a vast array of sonic collages, bringing together disjointed excerpts of conversations and found sounds over a patchwork of musical elements.
   • Walcott's Creole drama is an assemblage of fragments, a collage that calls into question the ostensible purity of linguistic and racial roots.
   • The zine was a collection of random findings, blatant appropriation and collages.
   • The dialectic narrative took the form of a collage, crafted with an uncommon conceptual and cinematographic rigour.
   • This is, after all, someone who unselfconsciously assembled an article complaining about bad writing from a collage of clichés.
   • Unlike these other works, however, this work is less an organized musical collection than a sound collage that works at a frenzied pace.
   • It's the actual shape of the words printed on the sound portion of the film that creates the soundtrack when run through a projector, while the visuals are a collage of pages from the same magazine combined with hand painting on film.
   • Fluid beats and loosely assembled sound collages colour the third album by Holland's Elisabeth Esselink.
   • Performed to a collage of composers ranging from Kurt Weill to Bela Bartok, Sorrow's Sister reveals women bent on survival, even finding a few laughs in the worst of times.
   • Suddenly, hip-hop was a happy and goofy collage of neo-psychedelic colours and a collage of musical genres put together by a trio of Long Island school boys.
   • For some, ambient and electro-acoustic music is nothing more than a loose collage of bleeps and loops combined with the omnipresence of a fuzzy wave of harmonic noise filling the background.
   • All of these stories combine to form a narrative collage of the author's development as an artist and individual.
   • Rather than developing a complex but coherent mythology that expounds upon specific ideas, Tarantino has simply created a collage of exploitation cinema.
   • Some of Ives' works are like scrap books which give shape to a sort of collective American nostalgia, a sound collage for the vanished ‘good old days’.
   • Developing the link between sound and image is critical to Cinematic Orchestra's sound collages.
   • Similarly, the autumnal, whimsical ‘Drool Collection’ closes out the album with a dense collage of thick guitar and complementing keys.
   • One consists of assembling a collage of quotations from diaries, letters, and newspapers to examine the soldiers' opinions.
   • It is learnt that the forthcoming releases will have at least one fast number, which would be a collage of words sans any sense.