Collage vs Canvas - What's the difference?
collage | canvas |
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..
* "Richard Brautigan's novel is a collage of memories."
(uncountable) The technique of producing such a work of art that is a collage.
To make into a collage.
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 556.
A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
A basis for creative work.
(computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
(nautical) sails in general
A tent.
A painting, or a picture on canvas.
* Macaulay
A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
To cover an area or object with canvas.
As nouns the difference between collage and canvas
is that collage is while canvas is a type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.As a verb canvas is
to cover an area or object with canvas.collage
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* collage film * collage novel * collagic * collagist * collagisticSee also
* montageVerb
(collag)See also
* (collage) * (commonslite) ----canvas
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(wikipedia canvas)Noun
(en-noun) (see usage notes)- The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen. \
- The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies .
- He spent the night under canvas .
- (Goldsmith)
- Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
- (Grabb)
