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- noun US Plural form of
canvas . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
canvas .
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Examples
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Paul Gauguin could lay claim to being a truly global artist – partly raised in Peru, itinerant in Europe, sending home canvases from the South Seas and beyond – so there seems something appropriate about standing in a gallery filled with packing cases and crates that have brought his paintings from the world's four corners.
Gauguin at Tate Modern: the making of a blockbuster show Tim Adams 2010
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Murakami's genius, on both large and small canvases, is to create worlds both utterly alien and disconcertingly familiar.
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The artist’s transformation from painter of blithe society portraits to creator of agonized, fantastical, existentially profound canvases is one of art history’s great stories; and the mordant, brilliant Robert Hughes is a writer to read whenever possible.
Summer Reading 2006
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The artist’s transformation from painter of blithe society portraits to creator of agonized, fantastical, existentially profound canvases is one of art history’s great stories; and the mordant, brilliant Robert Hughes is a writer to read whenever possible.
Summer Reading 2006
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And, he wants us to work on large canvases, which is a whole additional storage problem.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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The canvases are a fabulous way to treasure your memories, surprise family and friends and liven up your home with a beautiful work of art – people lead such hectic lives nowadays and we provide modern and innovative ways for people to capture the true essence of life, she added.
Truprint.co.uk introduce two trendy new sizes to their Canvas range Thatsnews 2008
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The canvases are a fabulous way to treasure your memories, surprise family and friends and liven up your home with a beautiful work of art – people lead such hectic lives nowadays and we provide modern and innovative ways for people to capture the true essence of life, she added.
Archive 2008-06-01 Thatsnews 2008
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In one of Nazar Yahya's untitled canvases, brown shades smother black silhouettes of buildings like bomb dust while orange blotches of fire contribute to the chaos.
Post-Saddam Art 2007
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His canvases will be the pride of the best arranged galleries.
The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908
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Her dress recalled the canvases of Boucher, Van Loo, and Watteau, which she loved.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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