Meaning of canvasful | Babel Free

Definitions

The contents of a canvas; the content of a painting on a canvas.

Examples

“When I see⟳ him at his easel, so neat and quiet, so unpretending and modest in himself, with such a composed expression on his attentive face⟳, with such a weak white hand to guide⟳ such bold, big brushes, and when I look⟳ at the frightful canvasful of terrors which he is serenely aggravating in fierceness and intensity with every successive touch⟳, I find⟳ it difficult to realize⟳ the connection between my brother and his work⟳, though I see⟳ them before me not six inches apart.”

“How could one man's brush and hand, with his personal vision behind them, color a canvasful of sea and sky and human forms, and make⟳ of it but a decoration, beautiful, vibrant, shallow . . . while another's brush flung three heavy indignant-looking apples on a gray plate, with a napkin underneath, and behold, he had painted a deep and significant little corner of a majestic universe!”

“She gave the painting, a vigorous canvasful of amorphous shapes in blues and blue greens, a moment's impartial inspection.”

“On Martha's Vineyard, Summer 1962 is a canvasful of brushstrokes and scumblings, some wet⟳ into wet⟳, some dry-brushed, with accidental runs of thinned paint⟳ allowed to remain⟳.”

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