Collage & Mixed Media

Collage (from the French:  coller, "to glue", is a technique of an art production, primarily 

used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, 

thus creating a new whole.  

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A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits

of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other 

found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas.  The origins of collage can be traced 

back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th 

century as an art form of novelty.

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The term collage was coined by both George Braque and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of 

the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of modern art.  

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From Wikipedia