Sentence examples for in front of a canvas from inspiring English sources

I wouldn't recommend anybody to spend 14 hours a day in front of a canvas either.

The other, complete with white sock and sneaker, stands, quite independently, in front of a canvas director's chair in the den.

What seems to be a historical thriller turns out to be something  far more profound: an exploration of the power  of lucre played out in front of a canvas of free will and determinism.

As they gradually realised, they were queuing in front of a canvas façade stretched across scaffolding in a bare field.The practical joke, which took place last summer, was so vast and baffling as to verge on surrealism.

Happy!' " He stopped in front of a canvas on which the icon was painted or drawn hundreds of times, and gave it a look that was somewhere between quizzical and perturbed.

Now I suggest friends visit it as somewhere under the radar, away from the crowds, where you can stand in front of a canvas without being surrounded by a scrum of people.

The violinist Pauline Kim, in one of the day's most breathtaking presentations, scaled the treacherous heights of "Passagen" in front of a Balthus canvas, "The Mountain".

He stood for hours on the pavement in front of a mottled canvas as the party twanged and thumped inside, painting a kaleidoscopic swirl of patrons and musicians.

The loveliest sequence in the film shows him pacing like a lion in front of a daunting canvas, taller than he is and twenty feet long.

"My brother always said that the toughest moment for a painter is having to stand in front of a blank canvas," Mr. Saura said, "which is also the kind of problem that I have repeatedly had as a film director and certainly what Picasso was facing until the news of the Guernica bombing gave him a trigger to really want to get down to work".

I was standing in front of a massive canvas, taking notes as I took in the colors, textures, and designs.