Sentence examples for raw canvas from inspiring English sources

"Eclogue," a broad band of painterly activity in a raw canvas field, evokes a teeming bazaar.

Here he drags paint over raw canvas; there he makes impasto dollops.

Where Pollock had used enamel that rested on raw canvas like skin, Ms. Frankenthaler poured turpentine-thinned paint in watery washes onto the raw canvas so that it soaked into the fabric weave, becoming one with it.

Paintings made of wide brush strokes executed in gridded order on raw canvas exemplify tension between action and restraint.

The crude paint application, which left areas of raw canvas exposed, was appalling to viewers at the time.

"Miller takes a raw canvas and with impasto paint creates these half-inch-thick clotted photo-realist characters," Balmert says.

You could usually see all the way to the back — the raw canvas — of a Pollock drip painting, for example.

These jigsaw collages consisted of raw canvas or linen stuck like shingles to a larger canvas and then painted.

"Evening Bird Songs With Crickets and Fireflies" (1978), whose large raw-canvas surface is marked with birdlike tracks and lines punctuated with squiggles and dabs in various colors, suggests a John Cage score.

For decades he has used raw unstretched canvas of different textures and tones in a way that emphasizes portability.

Most of each picture is raw, untouched canvas on which the words and clouds drift like flotsam from a ship gone down.