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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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The early signs suggested Itauma had the measure of his opponent, with Hrgovic touching the canvas in the second round and conceding that he was "outboxed" early on.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Caland worked constantly: on stretched canvas, on fabric folded in her lap, on a children’s menu, on the wall of her kitchen, or the sleeve of her smock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Pantoja managed to take Van down to the canvas again and worked from the top for much of the round, showing that he could still trouble the champion when he managed to impose his style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Juanita put her arm out the window and waved my old canvas bag at me, taunting me from inside the car, daring me to stay behind.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

This particularly productive decade is the focus of Voena’s presentation that shows the Italian artist working with reclaimed advertising posters to create abstract décollage canvases that evolved to also include realist elements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

Using shaped canvases and also experimenting with sculpture, the artist deployed boundary-pushing techniques that are represented by works spanning the entirety of his career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

He sends Vincent more tubes of paint and canvases, and a photograph of Jo and the baby.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman




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