collage

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col·lage /ˈkɒlɑːʒ $ kəˈlɑːʒ/ noun  1. [countable]AVP a picture made by sticking other pictures, photographs, cloth etc onto a surface 〔用图画、照片、布块等粘贴而成的〕拼贴画2. [uncountable]AVP the art of making pictures in this way 拼贴艺术

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collage• It's a collage of delirious sound things you understand.• The effect is often more of a complex aural collage than a medley of covers and originals.• Scrap materials can be used for three-dimensional collage as well as model making.• The importance of this kind of collage to Surrealist art was stressed by Ernst.• Make a spring collage with pictures from magazines of animals and flowers.• For all of them, collage is the most direct way of disrupting the ordered world of published images.• Despite the disputed authorship of photomontage, its source, as with collage, was undeniably in the popular arts.• Its decor is magical, the walls covered with photos of artists, actors and musicians, and tables covered with collages.Origin collage (1900-2000) French coller “to glue”, from colle “glue”, from Greek kolla

col·lage nounChineseSyllable  

by made a picture etc other pictures, photographs, cloth sticking Corpus

collage
col‧lage /ˈkɒlɑːʒ $ kəˈlɑːʒ/ noun1. [countable] a picture made by sticking other pictures, photographs, cloth etc onto a surface
2. [uncountable] the art of making pictures in this way

col·lageBrE /ˈkɒlɑːʒ/ 🔊NAmE /kəˈlɑːʒ/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, countable] the art of making a picture by sticking pieces of coloured paper, cloth, or photographs onto a surface; a picture that you make by doing this 拼贴艺术；拼贴画 [countable] a collection of things, which may be similar or different 收集品；收藏品◆an interesting collage of 1960s songs有趣的 20 世纪 60 年代歌曲的收藏集