A collage is an artwork made by sticking pieces of paper, photos, fabric, or other materials onto a surface to create a new image or design. It mixes different elements into a single composition.
“Collage” comes from French “coller,” meaning “to glue,” with the noun form “collage” meaning “gluing.” The technique became popular in modern art in the early 20th century.
The word just means “a gluing,” but artists turned that simple craft into a radical way of seeing the world—by slicing and recombining reality. Digital memes and photo mashups are basically modern collages with pixels instead of paper.
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