Sentence examples for tall canvas from inspiring English sources

In other words, the appearance of transparency is an illusion; there is something between us and the world beyond the spinning wheel, something solid and real; as tangible as the pigment that, in Las Meninas, is on the brush Velázquez wields as he works on the tall canvas with its back turned towards us, painting, we presume, a double portrait of the royal couple, ourselves.

He stops admiring his flock only to push his hand into a tall canvas bag and scoop up a handful of freshly milled chicken feed.

An arty crowd recently braved January's Siberia-like winter weather to assemble at the Park Hyatt Chicago in celebration of the installation of Sigmar Polke's 10-foot tall canvas entitled Siberian Meteorites.

Romain Dagonet wheels in a couple of tall, canvas-covered bins of boxed clean laundry, weaving through fans toward the far end of Court Philippe Chatrier.

A five-foot-tall canvas of a half-nude nymph, the oil paint cracked with age, stands on the floor.

That seemed modest compared to "Dustheads," Basquiat's seven-foot-tall canvas from 1982, depicting a pair of masklike faces punctuated with the artist's signature graffitilike scrawls.

Another big-ticket painting is "Dustheads," a 1982 seven-foot-tall canvas depicting a pair of figures by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

"Abstraction" (1958), a seven-foot-tall canvas with long, slender, vertical bands of richly harmonized color, shows the influence of painters like Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.

While there are no images of goats or coyotes, the show does include one ten-foot-tall canvas of a lion.

It's a nearly nine-foot-tall canvas in three sections: a harlequin pattern that cascades down on the right, a series of colored circles on the left, and a montage of gray encaustic brush strokes in the center.

"It's a painting designed to be hung very high up, at an angle," she explains, instinctively drifting to one side to avoid spoiling our appreciation of the near 3m-tall canvas.