The phrase "as a canvas in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as a medium or background for creativity or expression, often in artistic contexts.
Example: "The city served as a canvas in which the artist could express her vibrant vision through murals and street art."
Alternatives: "as a backdrop in" or "as a medium in".
Several paintings from Gauguin's Tahitian period will probably be missing from a major exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington when it opens this month, as will a canvas in that museum's coming show on the Venetian painter Canaletto and his rivals.
They surpass the technology that forms the foundation of their very being, transcending medium to exist somewhere else: as art, I suppose, expression every part as pertinent as what you'll find on a canvas, in a theater, within the structure of a sentence that turns your lungs inside out with delight.
They surpass the technology that forms the foundation of their very being, transcending medium to exist somewhere else: as art, I suppose, expression every part as pertinent as what you'll find on a canvas, in a theatre, within the structure of a sentence that turns your lungs inside out with delight.
Chancing upon a father and two sons lying in their own blood in a house in Cyprus, he writes: "I felt as if I had a canvas in front of me and I was, stroke by stroke, applying the composition to a story that was telling itself.
Hyundai takes over from Unilever in sponsoring one of the most important annual events in contemporary art – using the gallery's vast Turbine Hall as a canvas for installations in a series that began with an enormous Louise Bourgeois spider in 2000.
E.C. has opened wide the Beinecke's doors to wider audiences from our region and beyond, hosting tours during New Haven's Festival of Arts & Ideas and offering the building's exterior as a canvas for the arts in an exhibit, "Lux: Ideas Through Light," held last April.
Almost 50 years after French director Henri-Georges Clouzot pioneered optical effect experimentations, São Paulo-based artist Anaísa Franco re-explores the face as a canvas for image projection in her latest project Onirical Reflections.
We're essentially going to use crowdsourcing mechanisms to coalesce people to say, "Let's come up with a process". The platform is simply going to serve as a canvas for them to do it, in accordance with our principles.
According to a press release from the car manufacturer, 11 Hyundai Genesis cars used the Delamar Dry Lake in Nevada as a canvas to recreate a note Stephanie wrote herself.
