Douglas Melini, Colossus, acrylic on canvas, overall dimensions 8 ft x 63 ft (2000-2003), white room installation views at White Columns in 2003; courtesy of the artist.
Make a new blank canvas any dimension.
Roulin sees a "man of meager volume, standing and preoccupied, incomprehensible, who doesn't even know the names of these places and in lieu of the cadastral marks [used by land surveyors] applies thick yellows and perfunctory blues to a canvas of meager dimensions".
I paint on unstretched canvas, so the dimensions can be altered at any point.
She bought used canvases while a poor art student, and was unsure how to use a canvas with these dimensions.
"Alone No. 5," its complement, features a single cranium floating at eye level on a large black canvas of the same dimensions.
It seems that this specimen was preceded by another, dating to 1859, featuring a tricolor canvas with somewhat smaller dimensions.
You can use a preset size (such as 8.5x11" if you want to make something to print on normal paper), a custom size (using the height and width controls), or choose the clipboard option (which will set the canvas size to the dimensions of whatever is currently in your computer's clipboard, useful for pasting and editing existing images).
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.
Ms. Jarrell, perhaps the most experimental of the group, writes that she "morphs plants, animals and humans" in her sewn canvas pieces to meld the dimensions of time and space.
Mr. Joseph, the author of the boldly imagined "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," seen on Broadway a couple of seasons ago, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, has shrunk his canvas here to dismayingly small dimensions.
