Sentence examples for upon a canvas from inspiring English sources

Set upon a canvas whose background is the first third of the 20th century, the River Line debate reflects an aversion to metropolitan rail systems that manifested itself in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St . Louisand elsewhere.

A particular arrangement of pigments upon a canvas or some other surface could be the vehicle of a work, but the work itself is distinct from its material component.

If you're the kind of person who'd prefer to stay far away from a contemporary art museum, or the kind who, upon seeing a canvas painted with a single monochromatic rectangle, would say, "Well, I could paint that," then maybe Enrique Vila-Matas's The Illogic of Kassel isn't for you.

The novel is a canvas upon which the director has projected many wishful things that evoke an American supremacy of yesteryear.

They offered him not only a means of establishing plantation boundaries or planning military campaigns, but also a canvas upon which to project an image of the future glory of the nation he helped create.

The Sicilians' fusion of anaglyphic projections, stop motion and interactive coding employed the Duchess Anna Amalia Library as a canvas upon which they merged art and technology, tradition and modernity.

These mesmerizing images are the work of Nigerian artist Laolu Senbanjo, who uses the body as a canvas upon which he illustrates bold geometric and swirling patterns.

The Times review concluded, "when slavery has become a surprise and a horror to everyone in the land; when the Proclamation of President Lincoln has passed into history as a splendid trophy of a sanguinary war; when the gratitude of a people that no longer knows a bondman reverts to the heroes that made them glorious, then will such a canvas be gazed upon with respectful admiration".

The work is an assembly of photographs of a deserted highway with photographs of the road and sky layered one upon the other like paint on a canvas.

Once upon a time, you could glue a cigarette butt to a canvas or haul dirty tires into a gallery and upset people's nervous systems.

It's a canvas.