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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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The Morgan Library & Museum puts the Baroque master’s early canvas in the context of his contemporaries and precursors, emphasizing his extraordinary naturalism.

From The Wall Street Journal

Caravaggio’s “Boy With a Basket of Fruit,” one of his most dazzlingly beautiful juvenilia, bears the sumptuous hallmarks of his bold style and technique, in which he eschewed drawing to paint directly on canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Musselman told the Arenas family from the beginning that he would give Alijah a blank canvas on which to create and the space to make mistakes, to grow.

From Los Angeles Times

His canvas art, full of fast-moving brush work, is often rooted in the past while urgently seeking to draw links to the present.

From Los Angeles Times

Ancient mosaics, Chinese scrolls, contemporary canvases, photographs and more offer a lush trip through millennia of landscaping.

From The Wall Street Journal