Montage vs. Collage

Montagenoun

(countable) A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.

Collagenoun

A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.

Montagenoun

(uncountable) The art or process of doing this.

Collagenoun

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..

Montageverb

(transitive) To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

Collagenoun

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

Montagenoun

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

‘he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map’;

Collageverb

(transitive) To make into a collage.

Montagenoun

the technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole

‘montage sequences’; ‘montage was a useful device for overcoming the drawbacks of silent film’;

Collagenoun

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

Montagenoun

a sequence of film made using the technique of montage

‘a montage of excerpts from the film’;

Collagenoun

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

Montagenoun

the technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of pictures, text, or music

‘the art of montage in theatre and film’; ‘a montage of photographs’;

Collagenoun

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

Collagenoun

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

Collagenoun

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

‘he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map’;

Collagenoun

any collection of diverse things;

‘a collage of memories’;

Collagenoun

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

Collagenoun

the art of making collages.

Collagenoun

a collection or combination of various things

‘a collage of musical genres’;

Collage

Collage (, from the French: coller, or ) 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 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.

‘to glue’; ‘to stick together’; ‘pasting’;