Canvas — is an extremely heavy duty plain woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other functions where sturdiness is required. It is also popularly used as a painting surface, typically stretched, and on fashion handbags and… … Wikipedia
Canvas print — A canvas print, also known as a stretched canvas or canvas art, is the result of an image printed onto canvas which is stretched, or gallery wrapped, onto a frame and displayed. [ [http://www.fineart.co.uk/Artframingglossary.asp Fine Art Trade… … Wikipedia
canvas — Commonly used as a support a swatch of canvasfor oil or acrylic painting, canvas is a heavy woven fabric made of flax or cotton. Its surface is typically prepared for painting by priming with a ground. Linen made of flax is the standard canvas … Glossary of Art Terms
canvas — 1. noun /ˈkæn.vəs/ a) A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings. The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers,… … Wiktionary
frame — A structure made of parts fitted together. Balkan f. an overhead f., supported on uprights attached to the bedposts or to a separate stand, from which a splinted limb is slung in the treatment of fracture or joint disease. SYN: Balkan beam,… … Medical dictionary
Art, Antiques, and Collections — ▪ 2003 Introduction In 2002 major exhibitions such as Documenta 11 reflected the diverse nature of contemporary art: artists from a variety of cultures received widespread recognition for work ranging from installation to video to painting … Universalium
The Old Man and the Sea (1999 film) — Infobox Film name = The Old Man and the Sea caption = screenshot imdb rating = director = Aleksandr Petrov producer = Bernard Lajoie Tatsuo Shimamura writer = Ernest Hemingway Aleksandr Petrov starring = music =Denis L. Chartrand Normand Roger… … Wikipedia
Shaped canvas — Shaped canvases are paintings that depart from the normal flat, rectangular configuration. Canvases may be shaped by altering their contours, while retaining their flatness. An ancient, traditional example is the tondo , a painting on a round… … Wikipedia
Metric Pixel Canvas — The Metric Pixel Canvas is a pixel based derivative of the ISO 216 standard developed by Dennis Pennekamp to unite pixel based raster graphics with vector graphics on a square root of two based metric canvas. Size Dimensions (pixels) Dimensions… … Wikipedia
Plastic canvas — is a craft material of lightweight plastic with regularly spaced holes in imitation of embroidery canvas. It is also commonly known as vinyl weave .Plastic canvas is typically used as a foundation for needlepoint or other canvas work embroidery,… … Wikipedia
