Bowen's style progressed from large abstract expressionist canvases to figuratives and large faces, to assemblage.

The figure can refer to an armature or framework on which expressionist canvases are built:

Her abstract expressionist canvases, vertical in format, involve layers of crisscrossing brush strokes in various tones of gray applied to grounds scumbled in pink.

Mr. Goodnough's large abstract expressionist canvases and several of his sculptures will be on view, along with Miko Goodnough's complex collages and paintings.

It has been reported that a woman who police say was drunk "rubbed her butt" against a painting by Clyfford Still as well as scratching and punching the abstract expressionist canvas and trying to urinate on it - but missing.

The long, narrow, cavernous space of this former salt warehouse overlooking the Giudecca canal was recently renovated by Renzo Piano to house a collection of vast, splashy expressionist canvases by 20th-century Venetian artist Emilio Vedova.

MBDE has based a series of dances on Josyph's series of large expressionist canvases called Louie's, Key West, and another series of dances on his book of dream poetry called Collapse and Calypso.

DANNY SIMMONS isn't much interested in talking up his own paintings, which are figurative and abstract expressionist canvases that reach for themes both explicit, like racism and sexism, and delicately mystical, like those that show the process of painting itself as akin to prayer or meditation.