From French 'collage' (gluing), from Greek 'kolla' (glue) — an art form defined by its adhesive technique.
A piece of art made by sticking various materials such as photographs, pieces of paper, and fabric onto a backing; a composition created from assembled fragments; broadly, any combination of diverse elements.
From French 'collage,' meaning gluing or pasting, from 'coller' (to glue, stick), from 'colle' (glue), from Vulgar Latin '*colla,' from Greek 'kolla' (κόλλα), meaning glue. The art term was coined or popularized in the early twentieth century to describe the technique pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in their Cubist experiments of 1912, when they began gluing paper, newspaper clippings, and other materials onto their canvases. Key roots: kolla (κόλλα) (Greek
Greek 'kolla' (glue) also produced 'collagen' (the protein that glues the body together), 'protocol' (from Greek 'prōtokollon,' the first sheet glued to a papyrus roll as a table of contents), and 'colloid' (a glue-like substance). A collage, a protocol, and your tendons are all etymologically held together by the same Greek glue.
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