Sentence examples for flat paintings from inspiring English sources

The supportive role of the wall in flat paintings is challenged here by five artists whose disparate works hover between the second and third dimensions.

When Michelangelo completed his sculpture of David in 1504, he probably thought it made flat paintings look ever so slightly Betamax.

[MyModernMet]....Stepped into these 3D rooms that look like flat paintings.

Trompe l'oeil, a subgenre of still life painting, embraces use of realistic imagery to create an optical illusion of depth in works that can be perceived as real, three-dimensional objects rather than flat paintings.

Who knew that the man famous for creating gorgeously flat, two-dimensional paintings could work just as well in three dimensions?

San Francisco artist Jo Jackson makes super-super-flat paintings using her favorite material, Holbein acrylic gouache.

Technical director Lisa Forsell explained that to enhance the richness and beauty of the desert landscapes surrounding Radiator Springs, the filmmakers created a department responsible for matte paintings and sky flats, saying: "Digital matte paintings are a way to get a lot of visual complexity without necessarily having to build complex geometry, and write complex shaders.

Unlike the meticulously constructed matte paintings and movable flats of the Hollywood soundstage, which so often read as stagy and wooden, this New York was incandescent, raw, dynamic.