In the early twentieth century, when Pablo Picasso was collaborat-
ing with Georges Braque, they invented the word collage, which
derives from the French verb coller Ito glue). Braque first purchased
some wallpaper with a faux wood grain and used it in of his paint-
ings. Picasso soon followed suit. But the art of gluing paper and other
objects to a surface goes back much further. There is evidence that
it all began with the invention of paper in China in 200 Be, although
it wasn't until the tenth century that Japanese calligraphers turned
it into a regular practice by gluing fragments of text to paper.
Proust in Love,
Ann Baldwin, 18" x 24"
(45.7 x 61 em), acrylic,
collage, crayon, ink on
canvas.67