variants
also canvasses
as in paintings
a picture created with oil paint
one canvas by Picasso is worth more money than most of us can imagine
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Recent Examples of canvases
His contribution to the Prix Marcel Duchamp comprises seven massive canvases containing surreal figures bathed in a phosphorescent green.
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News Desk, Artforum, 27 Oct. 2025
The middle frames offered dueling canvasses for the starting pitchers.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
These canvases are too strange and slippery for that.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
This year, 34 local artists were turned loose to create unique works of art with blank ceramic skulls as their canvasses.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning), desperate for an inheritance, hire Lori, an art restorer and former forger (Michaela Coel), to pose as a prospective assistant in order to access eight unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in storage.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Increasing its artistic connection to nature, throughout the day, sunlight and shadows use both interior and exterior spaces as slow-moving canvases.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
The Tang Wing, a collaboration with the architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle, will also house rotating special exhibitions, requiring blank canvases of sorts.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Other vegan protein sources like tofu and tempeh also make for great meat substitutes (and serve as blank canvases for flavor).
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 8 Oct. 2025
News Desk, Artforum, 27 Oct. 2025
The middle frames offered dueling canvasses for the starting pitchers.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
These canvases are too strange and slippery for that.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
This year, 34 local artists were turned loose to create unique works of art with blank ceramic skulls as their canvasses.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning), desperate for an inheritance, hire Lori, an art restorer and former forger (Michaela Coel), to pose as a prospective assistant in order to access eight unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in storage.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Increasing its artistic connection to nature, throughout the day, sunlight and shadows use both interior and exterior spaces as slow-moving canvases.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
The Tang Wing, a collaboration with the architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle, will also house rotating special exhibitions, requiring blank canvases of sorts.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Other vegan protein sources like tofu and tempeh also make for great meat substitutes (and serve as blank canvases for flavor).
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvases
paintings
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Others recalled seeing them in one of their vehicles with the dogs, but that was years ago too, as was their last appearance at Jinja, a restaurant Gene once partly owned with the aforementioned Doug; Gene’s paintings still brighten the walls.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The protests stretched beyond India’s borders, too, with London’s Asia House controversially canceling an exhibition of Husain’s work in 2006, citing security concerns, after Hindu groups demanded its closure and vandals defaced two of his paintings.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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