Collage vs. Photomontage — What's the Difference?

Collage (, from the French: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pastiche, which is a "pasting" together.) 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.

Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that the final image may appear as a seamless physical print.

A piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.

The technique of making a picture by assembling pieces of photographs, often in combination with other types of graphic material.

An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color.

The composite picture produced by this technique.

A work, such as a literary piece, composed of both borrowed and original material.

(photography) A composite image combining two or more photographs.

The art of creating such compositions.

(photography) The art of constructing such images.

An assemblage of diverse elements

A montage that uses photographic images

To paste (diverse materials) over a surface, thereby creating an artistic product.

To create such an artistic product.

A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.

A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.

(uncountable) The technique of producing a work of art of this kind.

(transitive) To make into a collage.

Any picture made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs, especially in unusual or surprising ways.

The technique of producing a work of art that is a collage{1}.

Any composite object, whether abstract or concrete, created by assembling components of varied types.

A film having scenes of different types or from different locations displayed in rapid succession without transitions.

A paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image;

Any collection of diverse things;