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also canvass
as in painting
a picture created with oil paint
one canvas by Picasso is worth more money than most of us can imagine
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Too much moisture can ruin leather and suede, and cloth materials like canvas may shrink after getting wet and drying back out.
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Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025
And so the cobalt-blue splat at this canvas’s center may strike us as violent or raw but not unfamiliar—a piece of sky or sea or something else in nature rather than something the artist has invented for invention’s sake.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Ultimately, the discovery sheds greater light on how the artist worked by reusing the canvas.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 7 Feb. 2025
The seal said the canvas came from a shop that supplied artists in Montmartre in the early 1900s, but there were no clues about who made the painting.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025
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Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025
And so the cobalt-blue splat at this canvas’s center may strike us as violent or raw but not unfamiliar—a piece of sky or sea or something else in nature rather than something the artist has invented for invention’s sake.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Ultimately, the discovery sheds greater light on how the artist worked by reusing the canvas.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 7 Feb. 2025
The seal said the canvas came from a shop that supplied artists in Montmartre in the early 1900s, but there were no clues about who made the painting.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025
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