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Canvas

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Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other items for which sturdiness is required. [1]

74 relations: Acrylic paint, Aida cloth, Andrea Mantegna, Anglo-Norman language, Backpack, Berlin wool work, Brush, Cannabis, Canvas print, Clothes iron, Color Field, Converse (shoe company), Cotton, Cotton duck, Cross-stitch, Dan Christensen, Denim, Dieric Bouts, Distemper (paint), Dutch language, Eisengarn, Fat over lean, Fiberglass, Flanders, Flat spline, Flax, Francis Bacon (artist), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Gesso, Giclée, Goyard, Helen Frankenthaler, Hemp, Italy, Jackson Pollock, Judogi, Keds (shoes), Kenneth Noland, Larry Zox, Lead paint, Linen, Lyrical abstraction, Marine canvas, National Gallery, Netherlands, Offset printing, Oil painting, Old French, Paint, Panel painting, ..., Paolo Uccello, Paperboard, Pavise, Plain weave, Plastic canvas, Polyvinyl chloride, Renaissance, Ronnie Landfield, Sail, Saint George and the Dragon (Uccello), Sandro Botticelli, Stretcher bar, Study (art), Tempera, Tent, Textile, Texture (painting), The Birth of Venus, The Entombment (Bouts), Tokaido (company), Twill, United States, Vans, Vulgar Latin. Expand index (24 more) »

Acrylic paint

Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion.

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Aida cloth

Aida cloth (sometimes called Java canvas) is an open, even-weave fabric traditionally used for cross-stitch embroidery.

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Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna (September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.

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Anglo-Norman language

Anglo-Norman, also known as Anglo-Norman French, is a variety of the Norman language that was used in England and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in the British Isles during the Anglo-Norman period.

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Backpack

A backpack — also called bookbag, kitbag, knapsack, rucksack, rucksac, pack, sackpack or backsack — is, in its simplest form, a cloth sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders, but there can be variations to this basic design.

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Berlin wool work

Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint.

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Brush

A brush is a common tool with bristles, wire or other filaments.

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Cannabis

Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.

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Canvas print

A canvas print is the result of an image printed onto canvas which is stretched, or gallery-wrapped, onto a frame and displayed.

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Clothes iron

A clothes iron is a roughly triangular surface that, when heated, is used to press clothes to remove creases.

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Color Field

Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Converse (shoe company)

Converse is an American shoe company that primarily produces skating shoes and lifestyle brand footwear and apparel.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Cotton duck

Cotton duck (from doek, "linen canvas"), also simply duck, sometimes duck cloth or duck canvas, is a heavy, plain woven cotton fabric.

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Cross-stitch

Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture.

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Dan Christensen

Dan Christensen, (October 6, 1942 – January 20, 2007) was an American abstract painter He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction, Color field painting and Abstract expressionism.

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Denim

Denim is a sturdy cotton warp-faced textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads.

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Dieric Bouts

Dieric Bouts (born ca. 1415 – 6 May 1475) was an Early Netherlandish painter.

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Distemper (paint)

Distemper is a decorative paint and a historical medium for painting pictures, and contrasted with tempera.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Eisengarn

Eisengarn, meaning "iron yarn" in English, is a light-reflecting, strong, waxed-cotton thread.

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Fat over lean

Fat over lean refers to the principle in oil painting of applying paint with a higher oil to pigment ratio ('fat') over paint with a lower oil to pigment ratio ('lean') to ensure a stable paint film, since it is believed that the paint with the higher oil content remains more flexible.

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Fiberglass

Fiberglass (US) or fibreglass (UK) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.

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Flanders

Flanders (Vlaanderen, Flandre, Flandern) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, although there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics and history.

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Flat spline

A spline, or the more modern term flexible curve, consists of a long strip fixed in position at a number of points that relaxes to form and hold a smooth curve passing through those points for the purpose of transferring that curve to another material.

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Flax

Flax (Linum usitatissimum), also known as common flax or linseed, is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae.

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Francis Bacon (artist)

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery.

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Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

The Gemäldegalerie (Picture Gallery) is an art museum in Berlin, Germany, and the museum where the main selection of paintings belonging to the Berlin State Museums (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) is displayed.

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Gesso

Gesso ("chalk", from the gypsum, from γύψος) is a white paint mixture consisting of a binder mixed with chalk, gypsum, pigment, or any combination of these.

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Giclée

Giclée is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers.

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Goyard

Goyard is a French trunk and leather goods maker.

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Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter.

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Hemp

Hemp, or industrial hemp (from Old English hænep), typically found in the northern hemisphere, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant species that is grown specifically for the industrial uses of its derived products.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

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Judogi

Judogi (柔道着 or 柔道衣) is the formal Japanese name for the traditional uniform used for Judo practice and competition.

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Keds (shoes)

Keds is an American brand of canvas shoes with rubber soles.

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Kenneth Noland

Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter.

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Larry Zox

Lawrence "Larry" Zox (May 31, 1937 – December 16, 2006) was an American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionist, Color Field painter and a Lyrical Abstractionist, although he did not readily use those categories for his work.

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Lead paint

Lead paint or lead-based paint is paint containing lead.

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Linen

Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant.

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Lyrical abstraction

Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered as a component of (Tachisme) when the name of this movement was coined in 1951 by Pierre Guéguen and Charles Estienne the author of L'Art à Paris 1945–1966, and American Lyrical Abstraction a movement described by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969.

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Marine canvas

Marine canvas refers to a varied array of materials and substrates used in the fabrication and production of awnings, covers, tarps, sunshades, signs and banners for the advertising, boating, trucking, tenting, structural and medical industries.

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National Gallery

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Offset printing

Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface.

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Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.

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Old French

Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.

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Paint

Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film.

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Panel painting

A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel made of wood, either a single piece, or a number of pieces joined together.

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Paolo Uccello

Paolo Uccello (1397 – 10 December 1475), born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian painter and mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art.

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Paperboard

Paperboard is a thick paper-based material.

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Pavise

A pavise (or pavis, pabys, or pavesen) was a oblong shield used during the late 14th to early 16th centuries.

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Plain weave

Plain weave (also called tabby weave, linen weave or taffeta weave) is the most basic of three fundamental types of textile weaves (along with satin weave and twill).

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Plastic canvas

Plastic canvas is a craft material of lightweight plastic with regularly spaced holes in imitation of embroidery canvas.

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Polyvinyl chloride

Polyvinyl chloride, also known as polyvinyl or '''vinyl''', commonly abbreviated PVC, is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic plastic polymer, after polyethylene and polypropylene.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Ronnie Landfield

Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947) is an American abstract painter.

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Sail

A sail is a tensile structure—made from fabric or other membrane materials—that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles.

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Saint George and the Dragon (Uccello)

Saint George and the Dragon is a painting by Paolo Uccello dating from around 1470.

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Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

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Stretcher bar

A stretcher bar is used to construct a wooden stretcher used by artists to mount their canvases.

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Study (art)

In art, a study is a drawing, sketch or painting done in preparation for a finished piece, or as visual notes.

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Tempera

Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium (usually glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size).

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Tent

A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope.

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Textile

A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread).

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Texture (painting)

Texture in painting refers to the look and feel of the canvas.

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The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus (Nascita di Venere) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli probably made in the mid 1480s.

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The Entombment (Bouts)

The Entombment is a glue-size painting on linen attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Dieric Bouts.

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Tokaido (company)

is a Japanese company that manufactures karate uniforms, belts, and related products.

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Twill

Twill is a type of textile weave with a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs (in contrast with a satin and plain weave).

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vans

Vans is an American manufacturer of skateboarding shoes and related apparel, based in Costa Mesa, California, owned by VF Corporation.

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Vulgar Latin

Vulgar Latin or Sermo Vulgaris ("common speech") was a nonstandard form of Latin (as opposed to Classical Latin, the standard and literary version of the language) spoken in the Mediterranean region during and after the classical period of the Roman Empire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas

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