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''Papier collé'' (French: ''pasted paper'' or ''paper cut outs'') is a type of
collage Collage (, from the , "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assembly of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pasti ...
and collaging technique in which paper is adhered to a flat mount. The difference between collage and papier collé is that the latter refers exclusively to the use of paper, while the former may incorporate other two-dimension (non-paper) components. As the term papier collé is not commonly used, this type of work is often simply called collage. Cubist painter Georges Braque, inspired by
Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...
's collage method, invented the techniqueCooper, Philip. ''Cubism''. London: Phaidon, 1995, p. 14. and first used it in his 1912 work, '' Fruit Dish and Glass''. Braque continued to use the technique in works such as ''Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass''. Papier collé is primarily used to refer specifically to the paper collages of the Cubists.


Notable collage artists

Some of the notable collage artists are: * Georges Braque * Joseph Cornell * Juan Gris *
Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual arts, visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, ...
* Robert Motherwell * Sergei Parajanov * Pablo Picasso * Robert Rauschenberg * Kurt Schwitters *
Brian Clarke Sir Brian Clarke (born 2 July 1953) is a British Painting, painter, architectural artist, designer and Printmaking, printmaker, known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, symbolist paintings, set designs, and collaborations w ...
* Kara Walker


References

Painting techniques Cubism Georges Braque Henri Matisse Paper art {{art-technique-stub