Sentence examples for virgin canvas from inspiring English sources
There are sad and lovely images of snow as a transforming, even revolutionary element, which turns a gray city into a virgin canvas.
Once she learned how to express her personality, desires and complaints, she lost her utility to Howe as a virgin canvas on which he could sketch his theories of human nature and human perfectibility.
In earlier works this included paint that pressed from behind through seemingly virgin canvas, while this show sees her expand her play with the ruptured surfaces and porous boundaries that much psychoanalytic theory hinges on.
Egyptian mummies, for example, are shown near Chris Ofili's controversial "Holy Virgin Mary", a canvas decorated with elephant dung, that was part of Charles Saatchi's "Sensation" exhibition.
Among them are virgins, housewives and goddesses: they look out from the canvas with a coy sideways glance, a challenging stare and a wistful gaze.
This vast canvas from the dawn of the Baroque — formally, the "Vespro Della Beata Vergine" ("Vespers of the Blessed Virgin") — offers such a rich ground for competing scholarly views and conjecture that performances differ radically, one shedding light on another.
It shows the Virgin squeezing one of her exposed lactating breasts as a stream of projectile mother's milk arcs across the huge canvas into the saint's waiting mouth.
("I'm your canvas, your — bare — canvas").
