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Collage has been used for many years, but was officially reinvented as a form of art by Pablo Picasso in 1912.

This is an example of a collage called, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Collage. It is by Hanna Hock. The artist created this piece as an example of the Dada movement. It is an example of Dada because although it is nonsensical, it is still an interesting and engaging display.

Answer will vary but may include the following: The photograph is of a Basilica, specifically the Basilica di San Vitale. It doesn’t have any examples of paintings or murals, as we might normally think of when we think of art, but instead it has some of the oldest known examples of Byzantine mosaics, visible on the ceiling and walls.

With collage, you are taking pieces or objects that are already finished, and combining them. The art is in the arrangement, rather than in the creation of the pieces or objects.

This is a stained glass piece, found in the Chartes Cathedral in France. We can see how light coming through behind creates a colorful and illuminating image.

Stained glass is made by taking pieces of colored glass and putting leading between them, which dries and form a frame that is connected to a base-frame. They are typically found in Gothic-style cathedrals in Western Europe.

Mosaics are images made by arranging stones or tiles and embedded with a filler to connect colored shapes. This mosaic was created using dark blue tiles as the background, and then placing a variety of white tiles with other dark tiles of various colors and shades to create the images and patterns. Mosaics are usually used for floors, ceilings, or wall surfaces.

A collage is a work of art formed by pasting together fragments (parts) of printed matter, cloth, or other light weight materials on surface. In French, the word collage means, “to glue”. When creating a collage, an artist pastes, or glues, together materials, just like the terms means.

Answers may vary, but should include at least 2 examples: When creating a mosaic or a collage, the artist is combining pieces to created an arrangement, whether it be a specific image, a pattern, or some other desired combination. With both, the art is not in the components, but in the arrangement of the components. They are different however, in that collages tend to be less specific in the types of objects used to create the final piece and the surface it is placed on. Mosaic are most often created with tiles or some type of stone. They are also usually embedded in some type of concrete, rather then using a glue or other adhesive to paste the objects. mosaics are normally a part of floors, ceiling, or walls, rather than portable pieces of art.

This piece is by Gaudi, and its entitled, Serpentine Bench. It is a mosaic. Opinions will vary, but should answer each question and included reasoning.