Sentence examples for canvas cleaning from inspiring English sources

(And if you find, in watching this, that the dramatic effects of varnish removal are particularly satisfying to witness, check out this video of a canvas cleaning from the Art Institute of Chicago).

Victor Wiener, an independent art appraiser, remembers a housekeeper who tried to "dry off" a rain-spattered multimillion-dollar canvas with a cleaning rag and smeared the image in the process.

While technical evidence had supported the theory that "Young Woman Seated at the Virginal" was by Vermeer, it was not until the process of cleaning the canvas was completed about three months ago in the Netherlands by Martin Bijl, the former head of paintings conservation at the Rijksmuseum, that experts and scholars were convinced.

They may have recommended a product suitable for cleaning the canvas furniture.

Create a clean canvas.

Figure 1 Cleaning tests on painted canvas specimens (artificially aged) by BM Protease (B, C) or by commercial Protease (E, F), both supported by 5% Klucel gel.

Rinse the dishcloth in the clean water, then dip it in the cleaning solution and keep going until you've cleaned the canvas part of both shoes.

The team, including Tate conservation scientist Bronwyn Ormsby, spent nine months figuring out what solvents and cleaning methods to use on the 1958 canvas.

An inspection showed that when the portrait had been lined, some glue had seeped through the canvas to the surface, a problem easily fixed by careful cleaning.

"And a cleaning test on the right-hand side of the canvas, where the table, hat and hand are, revealed that portions of the black had literally been scrubbed away.

The debate focused on domestic issues, especially crime, immigration, education and cleaning up politics – but rapidly spread right across the political canvas.