What's the difference between canvasing and canvassing?
Canvasing
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It's matched by his fine-tuning of colour – there's a gorgeous interplay of blues and oranges in many of the canvases included in the show.
(2) The big ground-floor windows of his office are currently exhibiting canvases painted by an Oakland-based artist.
(3) Hallucinations induced by absinthe, the popular liqueur of the period, may explain particular canvases but not the majority of 'high yellow' paintings.
(4) Raddled and old, a self-possessed, semi-naked fool in ridiculous shoes, Lucian Freud painted himself old and mad, looming in that awful room in west London where he spent day after day, decade after decade, scrutinising the horrible walls, the thin light as it fell on his subjects, those piles of soiled rags that he used to wipe off his canvases and clean his brushes.
(5) He wrote a book on Friedrich and, as a child, used to walk beside his artist father, huge canvases strapped to his backpack.
(6) During these years in Italy, Twombly's output sometimes reflected developments in the rest of the world: for example, as minimalist artists were creating a stir in America and Europe , in the late 1960s Twombly executed six monochrome canvases, the Treatise on the Veil, which are completely blank apart from measurements written in crayon over the grey paint.
(7) If he wants to produce lovely canvases and give them to leaders of countries like the US, it’s nothing to do with me.
(8) Last Sunday, Banksy set up a table in Central Park selling small canvases with his trademark image of a rat for $60 apiece, according to his website.
(9) More recent historical artefacts – such as the obelisk inscribed with the names of more than 1,000 fallen revolutionaries that was once built and erected in Tahrir Square, or the giant concrete blocks deployed by the army to isolate protesters that were rapidly transformed by graffiti artists into towering canvases of resistance – were nowhere to be seen.
(10) Mom's an artist, and her two rooms are crammed with hundreds, maybe thousands, of drawings, sketches and canvases, chess pieces she's carved, and paintings of cheerful homeless people.
(11) He is flinging canvases around as though they were sacks of coal.
(12) These canvases are as if amplified; the chromatic volume is turned right up.
(13) In 1988, Arizona's 61 hospitals providing obstetrical services were canvased with regard to hospital routines that favor either breast-feeding or bottle-feeding.
(14) However, Spall, 57, has been painting for a decade, mostly canvases of anguished angels.
(15) The Central Park stall was authenticated the day after the sale, with a message on Banksey's website saying: "Yesterday I set up a stall in the park selling 100% authentic original signed Banksy canvases.
(16) Some canvases were extended, others abandoned while still a fragment.
(17) The second part is called In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays), a room in which dead butterflies are stuck to canvases, with a table nearby, on which sits an ashtray and cigarette ends – an early example of Hirst's use of cigarettes as a metaphor for pleasure and death.
(18) In 1962, Prince Philip, gaffe-prone then as ever, almost inevitably said of one of Scott's canvases: "Are you sure it's the right way up?"
(19) Although the journey to North Africa was Rauschenberg's idea, it profoundly affected Twombly: he brought back a sketchbook filled with motifs and studies of materials, and subsequently produced expressive abstract canvases whose titles were taken from the Moroccan towns Tiznit and Quarzazat.
(20) The Rubells showed two dozen of their Leipzig canvases at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art last year at the same time as the Cleveland Museum was showing the Ovitz family's From Leipzig, a show it described as "the 21st century's first bona fide artistic phenomenon".
Canvassing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canvass
Example Sentences:
(1) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
(2) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
(3) The legal team has spent more than 10,000 hours combing through evidence, spoken to more than 14,500 individuals, viewed more than 1,200 hours of CCTV and media footage, canvassed 250 businesses, completed 9,300 investigative notes and taken more than 1,000 statements from police officers, experts and civilian witnesses.
(4) Duncan Smith has already agreed to £11bn welfare cuts over four years, but today refused to endorse plans to lower the age of entitlement to child benefit, one of the ideas being canvassed to cut the benefits bill.
(5) It was stressed that British involvement in the US bombing campaign designed to drive back Isis in northern Iraq may be weeks away, even though Conservative whips are already canvassing Tory MPs to see if they will support a bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq.
(6) Canvasses from the UNHCR and Unicef, the children's agency, are piled haphazardly on to structures made out of wood with wicker roofs, sacking and animal skin.
(7) A series of Tory figures have canvassed the possibility of a formal or informal pact, including leading backbencher Nicholas Boles, former prime minister John Major and leader of the Lords, Lord Strathclyde.
(8) They are saying she needs to realise that she needs to build allies.” The Tory source spoke out after Kenneth Clarke blew into the open a spat between the Conservative leadership and the home secretary’s team after two of May’s special advisers declined to take part in telephone canvassing in the recent Rochester and Strood byelection.
(9) Implementation of the alcoholism policy of the U.S. Civil Service Commission could have been improved by canvassing supervisors and unit directors for their views, diffusing information more widely and providing more support to alcoholism coordinators.
(10) In May, the Ministry of Justice revealed that officials would be canvassing the opinion of judges on the matter.
(11) Door-to-door immunizations and a community canvass for susceptibles were marshalled to quell a rubeola outbreak in Norfolk, one of 25 outbreaks reported in Virginia from January through August 1977.
(12) So, too, the party must learn to turn the energy of the "word of mouth" election into Miliband's ambition of creating "the largest community organisation in the country" with as much activity on street lighting, tackling antisocial behaviour and creating community cohesion as was devoted to canvassing voters.
(13) Yet the moment we proposed the benchmarks, canvassed support for an ultimatum, there was an immediate recourse to the language of the veto.
(14) Administrators in hospitals and schools of nursing were canvassed to discover the nature of nursing administration research already in progress.
(15) But McGarry’s canvass highlights two other developments that both SNP and Labour activists in Glasgow East are detecting.
(16) And nearly everyone canvassed agreed: nobody had a bad thing to say about Our 'Enry.
(17) My own tribal affinity, for all that it often fails to pass the test of basic rationality, is still with Labour, but I have canvassed for the Lib Dems (in an attempt to keep the Tories out – I know, I know) and voted Green.
(18) At Unite Cloud, he’s planning to change strategy, moving away from community events in which like-minded people tend to show up, in favor door-to-door canvassing.
(19) While yes, you are moving to a better place and there is a good argument for it, the women would tend to worry about the practical arrangements in having to change all your accounts and do the practical bits of moving.” And both camps were using highly sophisticated marketing and consumer profiling software, based on the Mosaic system heavily used by retailers and advertising agencies, to analyse voter canvassing returns and polling data, to identify their target vote and divide up the electorate into even more detailed segments based on factors such as income, jobs, family size, age, location and likely attitudes.
(20) Matthew Cain, an active party member since his teens who lives in Hackney, east London, and opposed Gordon Brown's elevation to party leader, said he had been "moved to tears" when his wife returned from canvassing last night to discover that the work and pensions secretary James Purnell had resigned.