canvas的意思|canvas的解释-里氏词典

Canvas \Can"vas\, n. [OE. canvas, canevas, F. canevas, LL.
canabacius hempen cloth, canvas, L. cannabis hemp, fr. G. ?.
See {Hemp}.]
1. A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for
tents, sails, etc.

By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led.
--Tennyson.

2.
(a) A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for
working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted
work.
(b) A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been
prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in
oil.

History . . . does not bring out clearly upon
the canvas the details which were familiar. --J.
H. Newman.

3. Something for which canvas is used:
(a) A sail, or a collection of sails.
(b) A tent, or a collection of tents.
(c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.

To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see.
--Goldsmith.

Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of
Claude. --Macaulay.

4. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary
or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the
measure of the verses he is to make. --Grabb.

Canvas \Can"vas\, a.
Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse
cloth; as, a canvas tent.

For, if this magnificent exhibition at the Academy does nothing else, it demonstrates for ever the absurdity of the distinction that would make oil on canvas inherently superior to water-colour on paper, simply because it is oil on canvas.
For, if this magnificent exhibition at the Academy does nothing else, it demonstrates for ever the absurdity of the distinction that would make oil on canvas inherently superior to water-colour on paper, simply because it is oil on canvas.
It gave me a wide canvas on which to paint." After taking a master's degree in poetic drama at Queen's University, Belfast, Parker taught from 1964 at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., returning home five years later to start his writing career.
The likeness lies with a presence not closely described but known and sensed, as it blinked and, shifted, alive in every broad sweep of the brush across the surface of the canvas.
"How do you compete on canvas with a Montana sunset or wind-swept wheat fields with the shading and the shadows and shapes?
He has captured the pathos of Holocaust survivors on canvas, the panorama of tent encampments of nomadic Bedouin tries and the desert fortress of Masada.
After the gun battle the agents found 187 canvas bags stuffed with 4.5 tons of cocaine.
The record-breaking oil painting, made in 1959, is a vividly colored canvas with splotches of paint and the names of colors stenciled on the canvas.
The record-breaking oil painting, made in 1959, is a vividly colored canvas with splotches of paint and the names of colors stenciled on the canvas.
Overhead hangs an enormous semispherical canvas and scaffolding dome, which serves no identifiable purpose and creaks in the wind.
"The younger artists are very powerful in their statements, using rough colors, a lot of paint, taking a lot of liberty with the canvas.
Agents converged on an American Airlines jetliner arriving at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Wednesday after an anonymous tip led them to the baggage compartment where they found eight canvas bags filled with $25 million.
"I feel drained, like I've gone 15 rounds with Evander Holyfield." But everybody got off the canvas for Sunday, and the effort exceeded that of the night before.
But after licking the brush and acting up, Ruby gets down to business, concentrating on the canvas, applying paints then curling her trunk high above her head when she is finished with a color.
But they would have been fricasseed in an hour inside the factory-made canvas tepee that marks the village, and they didn't wear phony stainless-steel greaves and threefoot peacock plumes on their heads, as the Indian dancers here are doing.
Spadafora's headless, mutilated body was found in August 1985, stuffed in a canvas U.S. Mail bag just across the border in Costa Rica.
This man chews the gum and spits some paint-like liquid out onto a waiting canvas, creating an abstract picture. Meanwhile, the Blue Man on the right is thrown marshmallowish objects that ooze and spurt after he catches them in his mouth.
It deals with the basics - how to improve the environmental impact of waste disposal, for example - but it also paints the work of a building services engineer on a wider environmental canvas.
Douglas was counted out by the referee, and remained on the canvas for several seconds before being helped to a stool where he was examined by a ringside physician.
There are over 400 books listed in the Bibliography, and a note that the list does not include the Holy Books of the great religions. The author's canvas is global, would-be cosmic.
"The later pictures are more sophisticated; the marks look more complex, and there are more colors on one canvas," he says.
All the children got canvas sacks crammed with books, suggestions for celebrating Earth Day and other souvenirs.
Claude Monet poked about the Gare Saint-Lazare with a special permit and, judging by one wonderful painting at Orsay, stood blithely on busy tracks to brush the bluish smoke right onto his canvas.
The film would be camp if it had the energy to deserve the word. Instead it is more like a long night under soggy canvas.
Converse's reliance on the fad appeal of its canvas classics is viewed in the industry as risky, and the company says it is pushing its women's, children's and high-tech "energy-return" athletic shoes.
Converse Inc. has James Dean, fire-engine red and Greenwich Village to thank for reviving sales of canvas sneakers at the company whose reputation was built on an Indiana basketball player named Chuck Taylor.
The bugs posed no danger to other artwork because they eat other insects, not canvas or plaster, she said.
The company, based in Cambridge, Mass., said it benefited from the continuing success of its Keds division, which makes affordable canvas shoes for women and children.
Also at Thursday's sale, a record $3.96 million for an Andy Warhol painting was paid for a silkscreen canvas titled, "Marilyn Monroe (Twenty Times)," Ms. Levitt said.
Stride Rite's Keds division posted a 24% sales increase in the quarter, partly because of increased shipments of women's and children's leather products, which supplemented the growth of Keds basic canvas products, the company said.

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