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

The night before, amid the horde at the opening of Thaddaeus Ropac’s Georg Baselitz show, actor Damian Lewis was sizing up the big canvases. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

There, the walls are festooned with shapes that seem inspired by Cubist canvases. — Tim Hornyak, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Her studio is slowly filling up with canvases of pure radiant color contrasted with big open areas of bright white. — Barbara Rose, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2026

Pollock used a barn on the property to work on his enormous canvases, while Krasner painted first in the kitchen and then in a small, upstairs bedroom. — Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026

At Deering Estate, blue canvases stretch across a waterfront lawn, others extend among mango trees, while still more create a canvas shelter large enough for visitors to step inside. — Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

With Carrie, the architect of an elaborate dollhouse, and Florine, a painter whose iconoclastic canvases have made their way into the modernist canon, Ettie hosted a salon frequented by the day’s avant garde. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

The auction includes canvases by Van Gogh and Cézanne, which are alone estimated to bring in $180 million and $120 million, respectively. — News Desk, Artforum, 30 Sep. 2026

The discs provide fittingly versatile canvases for seasonal produce. — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2026