canvases

variants also canvasses
plural of canvas

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Recent Examples of canvases Vincent Valdez’s studio in East Los Angeles is packed with large canvases, some still in progress. Steven Vargas, ARTnews.com, 26 Dec. 2024 His canvases of various sizes are stacked and leaning against the walls, at times five works deep. Steven Vargas, ARTnews.com, 26 Dec. 2024 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. 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

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