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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
The look book props were also handmade and prepared by the iRi team, with shapes and palettes pulled directly from Rhee’s canvases.
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Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 16 June 2026
The shifting colors of the river could inspire a series of abstract canvases.
—Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
In the 50-plus years between the end of WWII and Spielberg's intimate drama painted on the widest of big-screen canvases, no one has captured D-Day with the same harrowing, relentless intensity.
—Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
The artist’s long career swept in artworks made not only on cameras and canvases, but on such things as fax machines and photocopiers.
—Barbara Isenberg, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
The not-yet-famous artist slept on a mattress surrounded by canvases, and his floorboards were covered in paint.
—Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
Despite being a major 20th-century modernist, Galentz’s canvases have long-evaded definitive categorization.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 12 June 2026
Across a 90-foot wall at the Orlando Museum of Art, Tommerup assembled three monumental pyramids built from canvases dragged through the ocean and Biscayne Bay, dried in flowering trees and tossed from rooftops at dusk, surrendering part of the creative process to nature itself.
—Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
VanEmburgh has been painting for five years and mainly works with acrylics on larger canvases, normally 40 inches by 70 or 80 inches and paints in several layers.
—Kansas City Star, 7 June 2026
Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 16 June 2026
The shifting colors of the river could inspire a series of abstract canvases.
—Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
In the 50-plus years between the end of WWII and Spielberg's intimate drama painted on the widest of big-screen canvases, no one has captured D-Day with the same harrowing, relentless intensity.
—Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
The artist’s long career swept in artworks made not only on cameras and canvases, but on such things as fax machines and photocopiers.
—Barbara Isenberg, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
The not-yet-famous artist slept on a mattress surrounded by canvases, and his floorboards were covered in paint.
—Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
Despite being a major 20th-century modernist, Galentz’s canvases have long-evaded definitive categorization.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 12 June 2026
Across a 90-foot wall at the Orlando Museum of Art, Tommerup assembled three monumental pyramids built from canvases dragged through the ocean and Biscayne Bay, dried in flowering trees and tossed from rooftops at dusk, surrendering part of the creative process to nature itself.
—Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
VanEmburgh has been painting for five years and mainly works with acrylics on larger canvases, normally 40 inches by 70 or 80 inches and paints in several layers.
—Kansas City Star, 7 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvases
paintings
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The walls are chockablock with paintings of former presidents in heavily ornate gold frames.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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Snider argued in the post that the similarities between the paintings could not be possibly be incidental.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
18 June 2026
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“Canvases.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canvases. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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