Synonyms of collages

collages

noun

plural of collage

as in assortments

an unorganized collection or mixture of various things

my scrapbook is just a collage of articles, pictures, cartoons, and observations that I have deemed worth saving

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assortments
• jumbles
• varieties
• medleys
• montages
• litters
• patchworks
• pastiches
• amalgams
• salads
• mélanges
• blends
• hodgepodges
• mishmashes
• shuffles
• menageries
• clutters
• jungles
• miscellanea
• agglomerates
• agglomerations
• potpourris
• miscellanies
• ragbags
• scrambles
• smorgasbords
• hashes
• stews
• olios
• combinations
• ragouts
• grab bags
• tangles
• hotchpotches
• patchwork quilts
• mixed bags
• accumulations
• gumbos
• alphabet soups
• crazy quilts
• jambalayas
• rummages
• gallimaufries
• farragoes
• motleys
• macédoines
• botches
• notions
• composites
• omnium-gatherums
• aggregates
• olla podridas
• conglomerations
• tumbles
• detritus
• aggregations
• welters
• muddles
• conglomerates
• salmagundis
• sundries
• fusions
• compounds
• odds and ends
• messes
• oddments
• alloys
• catchalls
• admixtures
• intermixtures
• commixtures
• disorders
• chaoses
• disarrays
• mix-ups
• imbroglios
• disarrangements
• snarls
• confusions
• bollixes
• shambles
• morasses
• dog's breakfasts
• knots

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of collages

Frequently incorporating African American women as her subjects, her paintings and collages center around race, femininity, and memory. — News Desk, Artforum, 9 July 2026

Atkinson similarly makes collages, carefully weaving each phrase into the next to create unsettled atmospheres. — Vanessa Ague, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026

New designs are layered on top of old, creating accidental collages between eras. — Clio Chang, Curbed, 22 June 2026

Hockney’s paintings and drawings, as well as his later photo collages and digital works, invariably had a playful, exploratory, interrogative relationship with perspective, light, scale, framing, rendering—the basic components of picture-making. — Mark Rozzo, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026

In the 1980s, Hockney would embrace Polaroid collages and would later use an iPad to create a series of digital paintings. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 12 June 2026

In the ’80s came his extraordinary multi-image photographic collages of friends including Isherwood and Bachardy and such landmarks as the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Canyon and Pearblossom Highway. — Barbara Isenberg, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026

The exhibition’s denim collages — cacti, mountains, fences, car keys — frame AI as the latest version of an old American sales pitch. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026

There will also be talks and children’s workshops, jewelry and accessories label Le Monde Béryl, and artist Kathryn Maple, who will work on collages inspired by London’s green spaces. — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 22 May 2026