AndrewF
At 07:15 AM 12/19/2003 +0000, Tabot et al (T.F.O.R.) wrote:
My understanding - open for debate.
Indeed!
b - Collages: involve cut and paste. In the digital world take two files and clone elements from one on to the other.
... My image this week was not a "collage" / "composite" under any of the dozen or so on-line / dictionary definitions of the word.
It took thirty seconds to find three "on-line" definitions of the word collage that describe your image with out mention of cut and paste or clone.
Collage - Front page Wordweb search # noun: any collection of diverse things (Example: "A collage of memories")
Collage - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A collage is the assemblage of different forms, creating a new whole.
Main Entry Wordweb: col·lage 3 : an assembly of diverse fragments
I have examined collage Art work containing differing objects unamenable to cut and paste or clone. One such, simply titled "Collage", consisted of, among other things, a license plate and a fish structure (bone) embedded in thick acrylic. Another, called "Form with Function", was made of vertical columns of differing diameter and color. They supported part of the building.
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