Sentence examples for upon the canvas from inspiring English sources
Presently, we have become too enthralled by the notion of literature as Jackson Pollock action painting, the id flung with violence upon the canvas.
Artist Stuart Davis used color and form to wise effect, forcing upon the canvas a vibrancy that at times jumps a painting's support.
"If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaught of the cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding to the conflicting forces, following the general law of violence of the picture.
Then he throws marks upon the canvas, separating the light and dark.
These alien-looking youths depicted in fine, delicate lines take over the heavy paint structures upon the canvas.
He was praised for the vitality and naturalness of his portraits, and his subjects found his company agreeable: Stuart was known for working without the aid of sketches, beginning directly upon the canvas.
That's not the canvas upon which my generation has been asked to paint.
This, then, is the canvas upon which I am going to develop a dream garden over the next two decades.
As one group seeks dominance over the other the urban landscape often becomes the canvas upon which this power struggle finds expression.
The EU is the canvas upon which the modern Conservative party projects its most horrible nightmares and sees its most lurid dystopias made real.
