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What is the difference between collage and decretage?

collage | decretage |

As nouns the difference between collage and decretage

is that collage is a picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface while decretage is (arts) a surrealist technique invented by sasha vlad in which the staples are removed from a number of pages in a staple-bound magazine, creating a number of formerly separated (front and back) "pages;" these "pages" are then analyzed for a connection between the images of the formerly separated pages, and then can be used as the basis for a collage, or left "as is," or, product of such a process.

As a verb collage

is to make into a collage.

collage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * collage film * collage novel * collagic * collagist * collagistic

    See also

    * montage

    Verb

    (collag)
  • To make into a collage.
  • See also

    * (collage) * (commonslite) ----

    decretage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (arts) A surrealist technique invented by Sasha Vlad in which the staples are removed from a number of pages in a staple-bound magazine, creating a number of formerly separated (front and back) "pages;" these "pages" are then analyzed for a connection between the images of the formerly separated pages.