variants
also canvass
as in painting
a picture created with oil paint
one canvas by Picasso is worth more money than most of us can imagine
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After the presentation outside the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on North Franklin Street, community members were invited to add their own touches to the canvas.
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Laura Fay, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
On the east side of the Statehouse, people were layering tissue paper on a large canvas to create multi-colored flowers.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Mar. 2026
On rare occasions, after a heavy bout of winter rains, the landscape in spring will burst with Mexican poppies — droplets of sunshine splattered on a canvas of golf-course green.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Another late work, Color Wheel, 2018–19, comprises a group of thirty massive canvases arranged in a circle, each a vivid, monochromatic shade atop which has been painted a single, dripping bar of complementary hue.
—News Desk, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
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Laura Fay, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
On the east side of the Statehouse, people were layering tissue paper on a large canvas to create multi-colored flowers.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Mar. 2026
On rare occasions, after a heavy bout of winter rains, the landscape in spring will burst with Mexican poppies — droplets of sunshine splattered on a canvas of golf-course green.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Another late work, Color Wheel, 2018–19, comprises a group of thirty massive canvases arranged in a circle, each a vivid, monochromatic shade atop which has been painted a single, dripping bar of complementary hue.
—News Desk, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvas
painting
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The first piece inside the galleries, a 1967 painting by the German artist Maina-Miriam Munsky, depicts a schematic outline of a cube struggling to contain a mass of dreamy flesh.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2026
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The reason to visit this church next to the Pantheon are for the three Caravaggio paintings in its Contarelli chapel.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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