Example sentences for: collages

How can you use “collages” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Others from Heartfield to Max Ernst built their montages and collages on a classic stagelike ground, with centralized figures, a place for them to stand, and a backdrop behind them.

  • The boxes and the collages are monuments to abstract affairs with flesh-and-blood women whom Cornell's psychology required him to flatten into paper effigies so that his imagination could go to work.

  • The family resemblance among his collages and those being made concurrently by artists in Germany, France, and even the United States provides a bracing example of what is meant by a Zeitgeist --in a time of shaky and sluggish telecommunications, several dozen widely separated artists all hit at once on the idea of chopping up whatever printed ephemera lay at hand and reassembling the fragments into dynamic compositions that reassigned their meaning.

  • The occasion was Cornell's discovery of a curious box by Max Ernst, La femme cent têtes , that consists of collages made out of snipped and pasted cuttings from 19 th century engravings, fitted wickedly together to form a semipornographic narrative.

  • Guest rooms are residential and warm, with framed collages of vintage Chicago postcards on the walls."


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