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Example sentences for: canvases

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I remember, in art school, watching otherwise mild-mannered students hyperventilate, grimace, and lunge at their canvases, trying desperately to imitate de Kooning's slashing gestures.
Rothko's journey into literal and figurative darkness left behind a shimmering trail of canvases that mark for many people the high-water mark of spiritual beauty and emotion in modern art.
Room 21: Vittore Carpaccio depicts in nine canvases the bizarre Story of St. Ursula, a British princess, said to have led 11,000 virgins on a pilgrimage to Rome, all of whom were raped and slaughtered on their way back.
Courbet was painting his vast canvases of provincial life, and Manet his Déjeuner sur l’Herbe.
Rosenbaum does pursue this theme--Hitler as a self-styled genius who painted not on canvases but on others' minds--but in the end he favors the more recondite picture of Hitler as diabolical comedian.