variants
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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His use of magazine covers, and fashion photography from brands like Balenciaga and Prada as canvases, exploring the fusion of nostalgia and iconography, transforming pop imagery into art that resonates across generations.
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Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Because of this, the canvases are not always put front and center.
—Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
For the opening of Salon 94’s sprawling new headquarters, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn chose to feature Adams’ latest monumental canvases of strikingly colorful portraits for the inaugural exhibition.
—Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Resident associations, resident leaders and property managers collaborated to temporarily transform these structures into canvases that were reflections of the communities themselves, and a great source of pride for all involved.
—Jamie Rubin, New York Daily News, 10 Dec. 2024
The documentary takes viewers inside Kahlo’s vibrant canvases, using animation to bring them alive in ways never depicted before.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
Most of these are large canvases in which a small, single motif—a boat, a skeletal human torso—is repeated again and again, on a background of subtle, atmospheric color.
—Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Kahlo’s canvases come to life in vivid color through the filmmaker’s use of innovative animation.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2024
After another row or two, Daignault’s canvases become increasingly abstract, finally dissolving into blurred daubs of color against black fields.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Because of this, the canvases are not always put front and center.
—Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
For the opening of Salon 94’s sprawling new headquarters, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn chose to feature Adams’ latest monumental canvases of strikingly colorful portraits for the inaugural exhibition.
—Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Resident associations, resident leaders and property managers collaborated to temporarily transform these structures into canvases that were reflections of the communities themselves, and a great source of pride for all involved.
—Jamie Rubin, New York Daily News, 10 Dec. 2024
The documentary takes viewers inside Kahlo’s vibrant canvases, using animation to bring them alive in ways never depicted before.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
Most of these are large canvases in which a small, single motif—a boat, a skeletal human torso—is repeated again and again, on a background of subtle, atmospheric color.
—Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Kahlo’s canvases come to life in vivid color through the filmmaker’s use of innovative animation.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2024
After another row or two, Daignault’s canvases become increasingly abstract, finally dissolving into blurred daubs of color against black fields.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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