canvas
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They merely project modern anxieties onto the canvas of an imagined ancient Rome.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
Dubois set up a knockdown with a sharp double jab followed by a left hook, sending Harper to the canvas.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
The artist’s intimate 1929 canvas, from her first stay in New Mexico, seems to gaze up at a towering tree with awe and fascination.
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
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
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