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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The documentary takes viewers inside Kahlo’s vibrant canvases, using animation to bring them alive in ways never depicted before.
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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
Thus Andy Dixon paints Day-Glo takes on Rococo romances, with sculptural nudes draped in loose tunics cavorting around pleasure gardens dotted with classical statuary; these same motifs are distilled into dainty arabesques and diaphanous whorls in the abstract canvases of Michaela Yearwood-Dan.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2024
On Kawara, for example, recording the date in white blocky letters and numbers over a black background, or Ann Craven painting the birds and moons in her tender canvases.
—Ann Binlot, ARTnews.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Suter, born in Argentina to Swiss parents, fills a room with gargantuan unstretched canvases hung one in front of the other, like clothes on a rack.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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
Thus Andy Dixon paints Day-Glo takes on Rococo romances, with sculptural nudes draped in loose tunics cavorting around pleasure gardens dotted with classical statuary; these same motifs are distilled into dainty arabesques and diaphanous whorls in the abstract canvases of Michaela Yearwood-Dan.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2024
On Kawara, for example, recording the date in white blocky letters and numbers over a black background, or Ann Craven painting the birds and moons in her tender canvases.
—Ann Binlot, ARTnews.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Suter, born in Argentina to Swiss parents, fills a room with gargantuan unstretched canvases hung one in front of the other, like clothes on a rack.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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