canvas
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Marked by veils of heavily diluted color that are rubbed into the canvas weave to create a weightless, matte effect, its soft, evanescent surface was intended to read, Whistler said, “like breath on glass.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Figma aims to bring new capabilities to the platform “and become the canvas for full-stack creation,” Melwani told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Nokia 2210, an acrylic on canvas, depicts the comedian's favourite-ever phone, and features a message saying, Snobs?, referring to a legendary city nightspot.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
It’s also mild in flavor, making it an exceptional canvas for seasoning and aromatics.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
They had left behind many of the things they had salvaged from Endurance, including the scrap lumber that had made dry floors for their flimsy, canvas tents.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Early in 2024, taggers began turning Oceanwide Plaza’s skyscrapers into canvases for graffiti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The intimacy of life and work are everywhere in the canvases, but Vermeer’s “sea of signs,” as Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it, resists reduction to narrative certainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Early in 2024, taggers began turning its skyscrapers into canvases for graffiti.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Also looking to art history is Colette LaVette, whose canvases at Gillian Jason ape rococo stylings in swirls of impressionistic paint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
After she felt that she had painted enough of them, Catherine would pack up her canvases and bring them to either Paris or to Guadeloupe for safekeeping.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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