Difference between Mosaic and Collage

What is the difference between Mosaic and Collage?

Mosaic as a noun is a piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture. while Collage as a noun is a picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface

Mosaic

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Containing cells with of varying genetic constitution.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture. An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote. A viral disease of plants. A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.

Example sentence: I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

Collage

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surfacea composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of diverse things; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc..the technique of producing such a work of art that is a collage.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make into a collage.

Example sentence: I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.

We hope you now know whether to use Mosaic or Collage in your sentence.

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