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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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Sometimes it is the details that best illustrate the broader canvas.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

This year’s abstract dress code, “Fashion Is Art,” encourages guests to treat the body as a canvas and “to express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

“This piece of canvas is your creation, and you can do anything on here that you want to do,” he said in the 1985 episode titled “Blue River.”

From Salon • May 2, 2026

Rubens was one of the last Baroque artists to paint on wood as well as canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Olka gestured to my grandmother, who held her paintbrush between her teeth as she scrutinized the canvas.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman




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