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frescoes

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plural of fresco

as in murals

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Talladega College Founded in 1867 by former slaves, Talladega's campus is home to celebrated murals by Hale Woodruff depicting the 1839 Amistad slave ship rebellion.

— Asia Alexander, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Her college-going daughter Sonali, who is good at art, painted murals on the walls.

— Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of murals

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Done at a large scale, at times measuring more than 8 feet wide, Urgessa begins his paintings by drawing them out on the floor before introducing oil to the canvas via a long brush.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Nothing of this reality is visible in the paintings themselves, whose facture is immaculate.

— Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of paintings

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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

Definition of canvases

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In general, seek a perch with clear panoramas—such as a hilltop or open field instead of a thick forest.

— Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026
At the top of the residence, a rooftop deck offers 360-degree panoramas stretching from the Santa Monica Pier and Catalina Island to the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 18 July 2026

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