canvas

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His canvas was vast and so were his themes, chief among them a clear-eyed assessment of that part of the nation so essential to the formation of America’s national identity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

There almost everything serves as a canvas, including painted trash doubling as decor and the silkscreened couch on which he’s seated.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

“Space,” he writes, “remains an open canvas of possibilities: not merely a source of wonder and strategic importance, but also a reflection of who we are, and perhaps what we may become.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

“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

It hits me as soon as I walk in—that smell of paint and canvas so strong that, for a second, I’m sure I’ll look up to see Gram sitting at her easel.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish