How was he to record any fragment of this language of eternity on his poor flat canvas?

The panorama competed for audiences most frequently with the diorama, a slightly curved or flat canvas extending 22 by 14 metres.

In a few of the largest pieces, the artist abandons the multi-part format for flat canvas and simplifies her forms.

It can give the illusion of depth to a flat canvas; conversely, it can flatten a building into an abstract arrangement of geometric planes.

In 1863, Manet extended his study of movement on flat canvas with Le déjeuner sur l'herbe.

I never understood what they were talking about because a painting is a flat canvas.

But it reiterates the idea that painting's medium is the flat canvas.

The room before him was a flat canvas.

She had once thought him colorless, like all the other featureless men who walk past you on a city street, outlines sketched on a flat canvas.

The man who is to be punished, or who is to be tortured for confession, is told to lie face- downward on the flat canvas.