The phrase "a flat picture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an image or representation that lacks depth or dimension, often in a metaphorical sense to indicate a lack of interest or excitement.
Example: "The artist's latest work is just a flat picture, lacking the vibrancy and emotion of his earlier pieces."
Alternatives: "a two-dimensional image" or "a lifeless depiction".
This is a flat picture — not the two-faced changeling of advertising placards.
Everything he does is about engaging with and questioning what art is about, how can you capture the real world and time and space in a flat picture.
If this is painting, it appeals as much to the tactility of surface textures and spatial presence as it does to any eye seeking out a flat picture.
His "Bridge Over Stream, Ipswich" (1893-94) depicts a rural scene using formal devices associated with Japanese prints: an oblique point of view; a simplification of the landscape into blocky areas of color; and a flat picture plane.
William Matthew Prior charged $10 for portraits in his Boston studio, although he advertised that "persons wishing for a flat picture can have a likeness without shade or shadow at one quarter price".
Shoot video with a flat picture style, so you can make more adjustments.
The mystery of "Enigma" is how a rich historical subject, combined with so much first-rate talent -- a highly capable (if not always exciting) director, a fine English cast, a script by Tom Stoppard -- could have yielded such a flat, plodding picture.
The first abstract that he was prepared to show, Madrigal (1949), was a dark, assured performance of rectangles and triangles locked together on the flat picture plane which, in the spirit of the times, was heavily disparaged by the principal of Camberwell.
She added: "The flat picture in European markets is inevitably proving to be a drag on export demand, with manufacturing activity across the region at a 14-month low.
Its stark form, uncharged with meaning except what the viewer reads into it, and flat picture plane -- which he saw as the device that divorced his pictures from the illusory depth of perspective -- enabled him to escape the confines of "illustration" in his documentary work and progress to the "realm of ideas," he later put it.
It's driven by mobile telephony, LCDs, the flat picture screens for notebooks; and of course they're the biggest DRAM producer in the world.
