{"id":2080,"date":"2018-04-19T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2021-04-23T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:34:12","slug":"the-story-of-canvas-in-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/the-story-of-canvas-in-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Canvas in Art: How Canvas Became the Standard for Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At iCanvas, we\u2019ve been experimenting with various canvas materials since 2009 to see what would produce the most beautiful prints possible. We originally started using 100% cotton, but ultimately switched to a polycotton blend after realizing how much more consistent our reproductions were, and saw their quality drastically improve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recognize that the difference in cost has been the biggest difference maker: polycotton canvases are long-lasting, produce authentic-looking art prints for nearly all works of art, and are affordable to almost anyone today. &nbsp; Read on to learn how the art world adopted canvas as the preferred painter\u2019s medium, and how our canvas material choices have shifted dramatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"3867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/The-Story-of-Canvas-In-Art.png\" alt=\"The history of how canvas became the standard material used for paintings\" class=\"wp-image-6598\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get to know the history behind how the preferred painter\u2019s medium became the foundation of our art prints. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1463],"tags":[73,90,2683,2684,2685],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-101","tag-icanvas","tag-canvas","tag-hemp","tag-poycotton","tag-giclee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14358,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/14358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}