Knowra Collage Collage An artwork made by assembling materials such as paper, photographs, fabric, or found objects on a surface. Its joined pieces remain visible as parts of the composition.
Decoupage : A decorative technique that applies cut-out paper designs to objects or surfaces, often sealing them with varnish. It shares collage’s use of cut paper but typically decorates objects through repeated application and sealing.
Papiers collés : A Cubist technique in which pieces of paper are pasted into a composition. Braque and Picasso used this early collage method to bring printed materials into painting.
Scrapbooking : A craft practice that arranges photographs, writing, and memorabilia in decorated albums or pages. It uses collage techniques to preserve personal memories and documentary materials.
Readymade : An ordinary manufactured object presented as art with little or no alteration. Like collage, the readymade brought pre-existing material into art, but often without assembling fragments.
Photomontage : An image made by combining photographic fragments into a new composition. It is a photographic form of collage, joining images to create altered scenes or meanings.
Cubism : An early twentieth-century art movement that represented subjects through fragmented, geometric forms and multiple viewpoints. Collage emerged within Cubism as artists tested how real materials could enter a picture.
Zine : A small-circulation, self-published booklet made for personal, political, or subcultural expression. Cut-and-pasted images and text are common tools in zine page design.
Appropriation art : Art that deliberately borrows or reuses existing images, objects, or styles. Collage makes borrowing visible by placing fragments from other contexts into a new work.
Assemblage : A three-dimensional artwork composed from found or manufactured objects. It extends collage’s joining of separate materials into sculptural space.
Georges Braque : A French painter and sculptor who co-founded Cubism with Pablo Picasso. His 1912 work Fruit Dish and Glass introduced pasted paper into Cubist composition.
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