The phrase "a canvas of a" is not standard in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could be used in artistic or metaphorical contexts to describe something that serves as a foundation or backdrop for creativity or expression.
Example: "The city was a canvas of a vibrant culture, filled with art and music at every corner."
Alternatives: "a backdrop of" or "a tapestry of".
A 1967 painting by Picasso, "Mousquetaire au Chapeau, Buste," a canvas of a musketeer, brought $4.3 million.
Yuskavage was working on a canvas of a voluptuous, kneeling nude, whose title was "Big Blonde Jerking Off," and Simmons took pictures of both girls in front of it.
Charles, scion of the fabulously rich Jewish banking family and one of the models for Proust's aesthete Charles Swann, is a collector who once bought a still life of asparagus from Manet at a price so generous the artist sent him a canvas of a further, single stalk in gratitude.
Basic shapes such as lines, triangles, rectangles and ellipses, inner/outer coloring and basic operations such as transformations, translations, scaling and rotations can be implemented in a single line of code and each shape can be drawn within a canvas of a given dimension and a given refresh rate.
Don't be one of those modern "artists" who take a canvas of a solid color then just draw one line.
One of his toughest assignments was appraising the value of a stolen Matisse--a canvas of a woman that had never been cataloged.
My favourite was the "Retro Red" room, with a canvas of an old-fashioned phone box covering the entire wardrobe door.
There was an easel with a canvas of an unfinished vista in rich, earthy tones and a Mason jar filled with water the color of mud.
Perhaps a stack of issues of the Gazette des Beaux Arts, of which he became the editor and proprietor, or the still-life of asparagus stalks that he bought from Edouard Manet at a price that prompted the painter to send him a canvas of an extra stalk in wry gratitude.
Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012 onens on 12 June and includes an empty plinth, a canvas of invisible ink and an invisible labyrinth.
Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 - 2012 opens on June 12 and includes an empty plinth, a canvas of invisible ink and an unseen labyrinth.
