Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CANVAS

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Definitions of CANVAS

1. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
2. A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
3. A tent.
4. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
5. (painting)
6. (figuratively) A basis for creative work.
7. (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
8. Obsolete spelling of canvass. [16th–18th c.]
9. (nautical) Sails in general.
10. (Nigeria) Athletic shoes.
11. (transitive) To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
12. Obsolete spelling of canvass. [17th–18th c.]

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Examples of Using CANVAS in a Sentence

• The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, vellum, wood, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, have been used.
• It was called all-over painting and action painting, since he covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style.
• It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel or copper for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of the world.
• They are different from the visual arts, which involve the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects.
• The theory of 'En plein air' painting is credited to Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819), first expounded in a treatise entitled Reflections and Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape (1800), where he developed the concept of landscape portraiture by which the artist paints directly onto canvas in situ within the landscape.
• He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of textured objects and relief surfaces to create images—and grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath.
• It is primarily used for applying paint to the canvas, mixing paint colors, adding texture to the painted surface, paste, etc.
• Gesso is used in painting as a preparation for any number of substrates such as wood panels, canvas and sculpture as a base for paint and other materials that are applied over it.
• Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, as a support for oil painting and for other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases, and shoes.
• Matinée de Septembre (English: September Morn) is a controversial oil painting on canvas completed in 1911 by the French artist Paul Émile Chabas.
• It is typically executed with wool yarn on canvas, worked in a single stitch such as cross stitch or tent stitch, although Beeton's book of Needlework (1870) describes 15 different stitches for use in Berlin work.
• The Winsted post office contains an oil on canvas mural, Lincoln's Arbiter Settles the Winsted Post Office Controversy, painted by muralist Amy Jones in 1938.
• The Marshall post office contains an oil on canvas mural, Harvest, painted in 1938 by Miriam McKinnie.
• It contains a tempera on canvas mural titled Lewistown Milestones', painted by Ida Abelman in 1941, depicting the Lincoln–Douglas debates.
• Carmi post office has been in operation since 1817, and then a WPA oil on canvas mural called Service to the Farmer by Davenport Griffen was first displayed there in 1939.
• In 1941 artist Ethel Ashton painted on oil on canvas mural, Defenders of the Wyoming Country-1778, for the local post office.
• The Smithville post office contains an oil on canvas mural, The Law, Texas Rangers, painted in 1939 by Minette Teichmueller.
• In addition, a film fragment (" the Perth fragment ") exists, showing Aaron Sherritt being shot in front of an obviously painted canvas flat.
• They were still sail and oar boats, fitted with hoops and canvas tilts for the comfort of their passengers.
• These early hospital ships were for the care of the sick rather than the wounded, with patients quartered according to their symptoms and infectious cases quarantined from the general population behind a sheet of canvas.

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