Definition of colage

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

Picasso says that he himself had already made his first collage toward the end of 1911 , when he glued a piece of imitation caning oilcloth to a painting on canvas .

It is true that his first collage looks more Analytical than Braque 's , which would confirm the date he assigns it .

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each .

( It makes no real difference that Braque 's collage is on_paper and eked_out in charcoal , while Picasso 's is on canvas and eked_out in oil . )

In their very first collages , Braque and Picasso draw or paint over and on the affixed paper or cloth , so that certain_of the principal features of their subjects as depicted seem to thrust_out into real , bas-relief space - or to be about to do so - while the rest of the subject remains imbedded in , or flat upon , the surface .