Collage

French term which translates as pasted paper, papier collé is a specific form of collage that is closer to drawing than painting

A montage is an assembly of images that relate to each other in some way to create a single work or part of a work of art

A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs

Mixed media is a term used to describe artworks composed from a combination of different media or materials

Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature

The term neo-dada applied to the work of artists working in America in the 1950s and 1960s which was reminiscent of the art of the early twentieth century dada movement

Arte nucleare was an artist group founded in Milan in 1951 whose aim was to make art in response to the nuclear age

Nouveau réalisme was a French movement which can be seen as a European counterpart to pop art

Décollage is a French word meaning literally to unstick, generally associated with a process used by artists of the nouveau réalisme (new realism) movement that involved making art from posters ripped from walls

Merz is a nonsense word invented by the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters to describe his collage and assemblage works based on scavenged scrap materials

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s

A twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary

The Independent Group (IG) were a radical group of young artists, writers and critics who met at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London in the 1950s, and challenged the dominant modernist (and as they saw it elitist) culture dominant at that time, in order to make it more inclusive of popular culture

Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought specially

In our continuing series in which we invite an artist to focus on a work in the Tate collection, John Stezaker reveals his debt to the self-taught American artist, sculptor and filmmaker Joseph Cornell (1903–1972), who was best known for his boxed assemblages of found objects

For issue 31 of Tate Etc., we asked three contemporary artists to talk about their personal fascination with Henri Matisse. Here, Beatriz Milhazes reflects on seeing the restoration of Acanthus 1953 at Fondation Beyeler, Basel

To coincide with her forthcoming exhibition at Tate Liverpool – her first solo show in a British institution – Eleanor Clayton pays a visit to the studio of celebrated octogenarian Romanian artist Geta Brătescu