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Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vscollage
I looked up the difference between montage and collage
and was confused by the results. In (Am) English, is there any difference, today, between the use of montage vs collage? Here, for example, is one confusing explanation: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5705493_di...e-collage.html Yet, this one really confuses me: http://www.englishforums.com/English...xjzjx/post.htm But here's one that discerns between the two by media: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...s-collage.html Does anyone really know what the difference is between montage & collage? |
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Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vs collage
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:01:43 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote: I looked up the difference between montage and collage and was confused by the results. In (Am) English, is there any difference, today, between the use of montage vs collage? Here, for example, is one confusing explanation: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5705493_di...e-collage.html Yet, this one really confuses me: http://www.englishforums.com/English...xjzjx/post.htm But here's one that discerns between the two by media: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...s-collage.html Does anyone really know what the difference is between montage & collage? The real question is why are you concerned with this? In what context. Does you wish to create one and not the other? You probably could also add the word mosaic to your conundrum. |
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Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vscollage
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:50:35 -0400 me wrote:
The real question is why are you concerned with this? In what context. Does you wish to create one and not the other? You probably could also add the word mosaic to your conundrum. Well, the rather embarrassingly mundane impetus for the word was the conundrum of how to describe these "things" that I recently created in order to help others clean toilet bowls. http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671545.jpg http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671632.png Are those "things" (created for alt.home.repair earlier this week), duly named collages, montages, or mosaics? |
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Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vs collage
"Danny D." wrote:
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671545.jpg http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671632.png Are those "things" (created for alt.home.repair earlier this week), duly named collages, montages, or mosaics? No. What you see is the USA being flushed down the toilet. |
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Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vs collage
On 2013-04-14 12:11:04 -0700, "Danny D." said:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:50:35 -0400 me wrote: The real question is why are you concerned with this? In what context. Does you wish to create one and not the other? You probably could also add the word mosaic to your conundrum. Well, the rather embarrassingly mundane impetus for the word was the conundrum of how to describe these "things" that I recently created in order to help others clean toilet bowls. http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671545.jpg http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671632.png Are those "things" (created for alt.home.repair earlier this week), duly named collages, montages, or mosaics? I would say that those are a montage. They are individual photographs arranged on a background. They are not arranged to create another image from parts of each as I would expect in a collage. They are not laid out tile-like to form a pattern or image as one might expect with a mosaic construction. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vs collage
Danny D. wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:50:35 -0400 me wrote: The real question is why are you concerned with this? In what context. Does you wish to create one and not the other? You probably could also add the word mosaic to your conundrum. Well, the rather embarrassingly mundane impetus for the word was the conundrum of how to describe these "things" that I recently created in order to help others clean toilet bowls. http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671545.jpg http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671632.png Are those "things" (created for alt.home.repair earlier this week), duly named collages, montages, or mosaics? To me - an former photographer - they are montages because they form a continuous whole. If I printed each image individually and pasted them up they would be a collage. It is a continuous whole but made of obviously separate elements which could be separated into individual elements again. If I made tiles of various sizes, shapes and colors and formed them into your image I would call it a mosaic. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vs collage
replying to dadiOH, Burt wrote:
A collage is a group of images (such as pieces of colored paper) arranged on a background (such as a piece of drawing paper or a canvas). Once the collage is made, it stays the same. Montage is a film or movie term and is a succession of images that change over time. That's the basic difference between collage and montage... . . . -- for full context, visit https://www.homeownershub.com/mainte...vs-744654-.htm |
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Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vs collage
On 2013-04-14 07:01:43 -0700, "Danny D." said:
I looked up the difference between montage and collage and was confused by the results. In (Am) English, is there any difference, today, between the use of montage vs collage? Here, for example, is one confusing explanation: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5705493_di...e-collage.html Yet, this one really confuses me: http://www.englishforums.com/English...xjzjx/post.htm But here's one that discerns between the two by media: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...s-collage.html Does anyone really know what the difference is between montage & collage? All of the above are correct. Basically a collage is a type, or subset of a montage. A montage is an arrangement of various elements of a work on the background, or support field, that could be paper, canvas, a wall, film, etc.. A typical "Photo-montage" would be to take several whole photographs, say 6, or 8 (those are of course just random numbers) and arrange them randomly on a background surface. Here is a 12 shot photo-montage; http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s326046...00_500x400.jpg A collage is such an arrangement of elements which are typically fragments of other whole pieces. The most common type of collage is where images are cut from whole pictures, photographs, newspaper clippings, magazines, print advertisements, and other sources. They are then pasted to chosen background surface to create the finished collage. This would be described as a collage. It is a method of creating that sub-set of the montage: https://mhsartgallerymac.wikispaces....n__collage.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vs collage
"Danny D." wrote in message
... I looked up the difference between montage and collage and was confused by the results. It helps to remember how these French words entered the English language 100 years ago. Both named real activities for which there were then no words in English viz.: Collage = making a picture by sticking together various different fragments. (Colle is French for glue, hence the verb and back-formed noun collage = gluing.) Montage was used to identify film editors' methods of integrating separately filmed sequences in order to tell a coherent story in a particular way. (Monter is the French verb for getting ready, the way you mount a horse, mount a school exhibition, mount a military operation, etc.) and both entered everyday English approx. 1920-40. Half the natural occurences of these words nowadays no longer concern pictures (still or moving), i.e. are metaphorical. But some difference is preserved, viz: Collage means sticking things together Montage something subtler and less mechanical. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vscollage
On 14/04/2013 21:21, Don Phillipson wrote:
(...) tell a coherent story in a particular way. (Monter is the French verb for getting ready, the way you mount a horse, mount a school exhibition, mount a military operation, etc.) Getting ready? Ehm... no. Monter has the following meanings: to ascend to, to climb, to reach, to increase, to assemble. Mounting a horse (- to ascend) is quite different from mounting a military operation (- to assemble) By extension, a "montage" would be an "assembly" |
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