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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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“If I say ‘Here’s a blank canvas, write me such and such,’ would that just be a melange of millions of other scripts?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

We need to bring back the ugly canvas bag.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Most enigmatic, perhaps, are large, two-sided, abstract drawings from the 1970s, both used in transferring images to canvas and ends in themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

"We usually rent newer houses that are a blank canvas so we can make them our own, although this last season the accommodation was provided furnished by Argyle," she says.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Then they rigged a sea anchor, a canvas cone dragged through the water to keep the boat turned into the storm.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Although his canvases typically sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, when he completed a large mural for the Palestinian Museum, his requested fee was only a fig tree to be planted in the garden.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Early in 2024, taggers began turning Oceanwide Plaza’s skyscrapers into canvases for graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The artist’s long career swept in artworks made not only on cameras and canvases, but on such things as fax machines and photocopiers.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

There have been dozens of painters—albeit fewer and fewer now that the favored mode of contemporary art is no longer painting—who took Hofmann’s canvases and philosophy as veritable instruction manuals.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

Jamie looks through my canvases and my old sketchbooks.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman




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