collagist
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A person who makes art by sticking different papers, photos and fabric together
- noun
- /kəˈlɑːdʒɪst/
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collagista
- The collagist used various materials, including paper and fabric, to create a stunning artwork.
Examples
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The museum featured a display of the collagist's work, showcasing innovative techniques in assembling images.
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"Twenty years earlier and I'd have been a pop-expressionist painter, a feminist collagist, a destructivist.
Fiction book (1999) -
As a well-known collagist, she transformed discarded items into beautiful pieces of art.
Surface Forms
collagist singular
collagists plural
Morphology
Etymology
Collagist comes from collage, which comes from the French verb coller meaning 'to glue'. So a collagist is someone who 'glues' together pieces of paper, photos or fabric to make one artwork.