montage
A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together…A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
» Montage is a language unique to cinematography.
Монтаж - это уникальный язык кинематографа.
Meaning
3 senses(countable)A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage
Montage
монта́жmontáž, фотомонта́жfotomontáž
монта́жmontáž
(uncountable)The art or process of doing this.
Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage
монта́жmontáž
(countable)A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.
- a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
Examples
4 sentencesMontage is a language unique to cinematography.
ruМонтаж - это уникальный язык кинематографа.
It's a photo montage.
ruЭто фотомонтаж.
deDas ist eine Fotomontage.
The video portion of the review mostly consisted of a montage of miscellaneous in-game footage.
We're making a montage of Tom's college years.
Translations
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Origin
, La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), fr, La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.
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Forms
plural: montagesSynonyms
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