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Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs,
fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface.
Collage in painting
Pablo Picasso, 1913–14, Head (Tête), cut and pasted colored paper, gouache and charcoal on paperboard,

43.5 x 33 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Collage in the modernist sense began with Cubist painters Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Snippets and
fragments of different and unrelated subject matter made up Cubism collages, or papier collé, which gave
them a deconstructed form and appearance.[9] According to some sources, Picasso was the first to use the
collage technique in oil paintings. According to the Guggenheim Museum's online article about collage,

Braque took up the concept of collage itself before Picasso, applying it to charcoal drawings. Picasso adopted
collage immediately after (and could be the first to use collage in paintings, as opposed to drawings): "It was
Braque who purchased a roll of simulated oak-grain wallpaper and began cutting out pieces of the paper and
attaching them to his charcoal drawings. Picasso immediately began to make his own experiments in the new
medium."[8]

In 1912 for his Still Life with Chair Caning (Nature-morte à la chaise cannée),[10] Picasso pasted a patch of

oilcloth with a chair-cane design onto the canvas of the piece.