Sentence examples for half of the canvas from inspiring English sources

Several vertical works that relegate the pencil work to half of the canvas or limit color, or both, are especially effective, like expanded doodles unafraid to take on Pollock.

She wears a blue and white checked kerchief, which forms a large, brightly lighted triangle in the upper half of the canvas and shadows her sensuously unruly red hair below.

It was a news report as much as a history painting, a protest but also a glorification, in which fully half of the canvas holds nothing but a kind of beatific twilight, turning the pale corpse into a secular pietà.

This reminds me of one of Caravaggio's greatest paintings, "The Burial of St. Lucy," where the top half of the canvas is entirely dark and only the bottom center shows the work's subject.

Velázquez presents nine figures eleven if the king and queen's reflected images are included yet they occupy only the lower half of the canvas.

He portrays himself sitting calmly on one half of the raw canvas, a white-haired gentleman in a white suit whose hand is raised, as if holding a brush.

In half of the paintings the canvas has been elaborately folded and pressed, retaining a loosely geometric pattern of ridges and wrinkles that is accented by two or three spray-painted colors and pulled taut by a stretcher.

The sky, often ominously cloudy and filling half or more of the canvas, played a central role in setting the tone of a scene.

There is the flat application of color, particularly in "The Red Smile" (1963), in which a field of red occupies half the canvas and Ada the other half.

Here, mirroring swaths of pink (achieved by folding the bare half of a canvas onto its painted half) are each pierced by a large trompe-l'oeil nose ring.

For "George Washington Melted 2," Valerie Hegarty created a convincing simulation of a Gilbert Stuart-type portrait of the first president and, at the same time, made it appear as if a fire had burned through the upper edge of the canvas and turned half the subject's face into an sagging, oozy mess.