Plural of collage; artworks made by assembling and gluing together different materials like paper, photographs, and fabric onto a backing surface.
From French 'collage' (gluing), derived from 'coller' (to glue/stick), from Latin 'colla' (glue); the art form was formalized by Cubist artists in the early 1900s.
Collage became an artistic revolution when Picasso and Braque started gluing newspaper scraps and fabric onto canvas—it challenged the idea that 'real art' had to be painted or drawn by hand, opening doors to all kinds of found-object creativity.
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