Degas's painting "Absinthe" (1875-76) or Van Gogh's "Corner in Montmartre" (1887) depict the territory and atmosphere of 19th-century Bohemia in Paris in oil on canvas.

WSJ: Bohemia in Paris | 'Around the Chat Noir' at the Mus��e de Montmartre and 'Bohemias' at the Grand Palais

While these were only oil on canvas, cast in bronze or forged in steel, not living people, the tragedy is minimized but their destruction is almost as sad, because it was equally needless and equally barbaric.

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Both our art and our literature go to great pains to destroy our illusions and remind us that they are merely ink on paper or oil paint on canvas.

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In the years leading up to independence, Indian artists often rejected the styles, techniques and even the oil-on-canvas medium taught by the country's British-bred art schools.

WSJ: Modernist Art From India: The Body Unbound at Rubin Museum

The use of oil-based paints on canvas made art accessible as never before.

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Known for his oil paintings, he also works on printed canvas, photography and film.

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Since most are on paper, which allows oil paint more physical autonomy than absorptive canvas, the results are distinguished by fresh color and light, a palpable sense of immediacy and spontaneity, and a suggestion of transient moments captured and prolonged.

WSJ: Appealing to Modern Eyes | The Path of Nature | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Karen Wilkin

Titian was famed for painting directly on to the canvas from life and very few drawings or oil sketches by him remain.

ECONOMIST: Portrait of a lady and her daughter