Synonyms of canvases

canvases

noun

variants also canvasses

plural of canvas

as in paintings

a picture created with oil paint

one canvas by Picasso is worth more money than most of us can imagine

Synonyms & Similar Words

• paintings
• oils
• murals
• watercolors
• oil paintings
• frescoes
• panoramas
• drawings
• masterpieces
• etchings
• acrylics
• gouaches
• diptychs
• sketches
• pastels
• aquarelles
• triptychs
• finger paintings
• distempers
• temperas
• showpieces
• pièces de résistance

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of canvases

Few works in the show are titled, boxes filled with objects remain closed (one is even tightly wrapped in cellophane), and canvases are stacked one atop the other like pizza boxes—content and images concealed. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026

The open-air rock shelters and towering sandstone cliffs are living canvases of ancient paintings from the Upper Paleolithic Period to the Neolithic (50,000–8,000 bce). — Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026

Every day that the weather allows, Jose David Morales-Ortiz, 65, will hang around a dozen canvases on his fence and sit outside for hours, selling original paintings and other handmade trinkets to passersby. — Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 10 Aug. 2026

At the Whitney Biennial, Carmen de Monteflores’s long-unseen shaped canvases of colorful overlapping figures hung alongside her daughter Andrea Fraser’s wax sculptures of sleeping toddlers. — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026

Her own method is to paint directly onto wild-cotton canvases, without any preliminary drawings. — Gabriella Angeleti, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026

Broadhurst also was a painter who created more than 2,000 canvases, some of which have been exhibited at the Broadhurst Art Gallery (named for him) at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains, New York. — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026

Early in 2024, taggers began turning Oceanwide Plaza’s skyscrapers into canvases for graffiti. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

Use canvases to build diagrams for planning, documenting, and improving your workflow. — Ruben Circelli, PC Magazine, 23 July 2026