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Example sentences for: canvas

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Experts scrubbed it of grime but also removed layers of retouching, leaving blank spots on the canvas.
His best-known painting is a giant canvas of the Ecuadorian mountains called Heart of the Andes (1859) , which he displayed as if it were a theater of the real unto itself.
These "breakthrough" paintings, as Rothko himself called them, with their thick layers of paint laid on with big brushes purchased at a hardware store, give the lie to the critic Clement Greenberg's influential claim that Rothko "seems to soak his paint into the canvas to get a dyer's effect and avoid the connotations of a discrete layer of paint on top of the surface."
His dance around the canvas looks like its own hidden language.
When a graduate student on a field trip writes about Kinsey's "prick nibblin tent," Jones suggests that "it is not hard to suspect that oral sex was going on under canvas tops," because "Berland was a man who usually meant what he said."