Sentence examples for canvases turned from inspiring English sources

Mr. Thomas – who has become fairly well known for using subway maps as his canvases — turned around a few minutes later to see several Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers and a bomb dog gathering around his backpack.

By 1839 he was living on the Ile de la Cite, drawing on his stones in a studio stacked with canvases turned to the wall and occasionally submitting his work to the official Salon.

Halfway through the competition, Ron decided that he and Jon should switch canvases, turning it into a fully collaborative piece.

"It was a painting class and our canvases were turned away from the center of the room, directly opposed to one another," Ms. Gold said.

Since 1977, when the Transit Authority introduced the buff (essentially a giant chemical car wash that removes paint), many of New York's graf writers have given up using subway cars as their canvases and have turned to walls and storefront gates.

Damien Hirst once encrusted a skull with diamonds, and Takashi Murakami has turned out canvases with cartoon versions of skulls.

The canvases had been carefully turned around so that all that was visible were the backs of paintings, leaning against the walls, leaving viewers to imagine what they were.

From Brooklyn to Belfast and everywhere in between, forgotten old shit-holes have been turned into canvases and life is breathed back into them.

"We went out on canvases and you were getting canvases where 200 people just turned up.

The wordless choreography of the wheeling, turning canvases brought back the ephemeral intimacy of one artist's inner sanctum 50 years on, verifying the often profound accuracy of silence.

When the canvases he shipped from France turned out to be the wrong size, he was forced to cut La Danse into bits and reassemble its parts.