Is there a difference between the use of the word montage vscollage

Danny D. wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:50:35 -0400 me wrote:

The real question is why are you concerned with this? In what
context. Does you wish to create one and not the other? You probably
could also add the word mosaic to your conundrum.

Well, the rather embarrassingly mundane impetus for the word
was the conundrum of how to describe these "things" that I
recently created in order to help others clean toilet bowls.

http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671545.jpg
http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671632.png

Are those "things" (created for alt.home.repair earlier this
week), duly named collages, montages, or mosaics?

To me - an former photographer - they are montages because they form a
continuous whole.

If I printed each image individually and pasted them up they would be a
collage. It is a continuous whole but made of obviously separate elements
which could be separated into individual elements again.

If I made tiles of various sizes, shapes and colors and formed them into
your image I would call it a mosaic.

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Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:11:04 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:50:35 -0400 me wrote:

The real question is why are you concerned with this? In what
context. Does you wish to create one and not the other? You
probably could also add the word mosaic to your conundrum.

Well, the rather embarrassingly mundane impetus for the word
was the conundrum of how to describe these "things" that I
recently created in order to help others clean toilet bowls.

http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671545.jpg
http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12671632.png

Are those "things" (created for alt.home.repair earlier this
week), duly named collages, montages, or mosaics?

You could call them "composites".

That works too

Best choice IMO/

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dadiOH
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Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change?
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On 14/04/2013 21:21, Don Phillipson wrote:

(...)
tell a coherent story in a particular way. (Monter is the
French verb for getting ready, the way you mount a
horse, mount a school exhibition, mount a military
operation, etc.)

Getting ready? Ehm... no.

Monter has the following meanings: to ascend to, to climb, to reach, to
increase, to assemble.

Mounting a horse (- to ascend) is quite different from mounting a
military operation (- to assemble)

By extension, a "montage" would be an "assembly"

replying to dadiOH, Burt wrote:
A collage is a group of images (such as pieces of colored paper) arranged on a
background (such as a piece of drawing paper or a canvas). Once the collage
is made, it stays the same. Montage is a film or movie term and is a
succession of images that change over time. That's the basic difference
between collage and montage... . . .

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