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“Sinners” is a meditation on how the past’s crimes and terrors bleed into the present, rendered by a Black artist using a popular genre, horror, as half of his canvas.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

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 • Mar. 11, 2026

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 • Mar. 11, 2026

She points to the orange fence on the right hand picture which looks like a handle and the entire white canvas of the left hand painting which resembles the blade.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Anya screamed, clawing again at the canvas sides.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack