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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At the Hauser & Wirth exhibition, there is a short film that shows Metzger making these works, flinging acid on sheets of material, or using a bug sprayer to deliver acid to canvases.
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Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Metzger’s Auto-Destructive art works included his Acid Action painting in which nylon canvases were sprayed with hydrochloric acid which corrodes the point of contact within 15 seconds.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
This month, the Aldrich will also host a posthumous five-decade survey of Martha Diamond’s vibrant, brushy canvases.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2024
The striking interplay of color in his large-scale canvases conveys the vividness of memory, both painful and beautiful.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 19 Oct. 2024
The traditional targets of taggers — walls, windows, street signs, lampposts, buses — remain their canvases.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Revisiting those childhood memories conjured up images that inspired him to paint canvases that became part of the movie.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2024
Big, fleshy, writhing canvases filled with body parts.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Artists paint on canvases during the voter registration event.
—Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Metzger’s Auto-Destructive art works included his Acid Action painting in which nylon canvases were sprayed with hydrochloric acid which corrodes the point of contact within 15 seconds.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
This month, the Aldrich will also host a posthumous five-decade survey of Martha Diamond’s vibrant, brushy canvases.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2024
The striking interplay of color in his large-scale canvases conveys the vividness of memory, both painful and beautiful.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 19 Oct. 2024
The traditional targets of taggers — walls, windows, street signs, lampposts, buses — remain their canvases.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Revisiting those childhood memories conjured up images that inspired him to paint canvases that became part of the movie.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2024
Big, fleshy, writhing canvases filled with body parts.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Artists paint on canvases during the voter registration event.
—Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
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“Canvases.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canvases. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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