And just as Matisse's paeans to the tension between the three-dimensional world and the flat canvas have been dismissed as "decorative" because of their glorious color and patterning, Veronese's lush figure groups have been similarly labeled, for similar reasons.

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Rousey raised both arms in victory while flat on the canvas after the longest fight of the mixed martial artist's ascendant career.

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The structural members of the building, cool and subdued against the warm pinks and dull gold of the walls, form a warped grid that at once suggests space and reasserts the flat expanse of the canvas.

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He then painted a second version of the same image on an identically sized canvas, this time using flat color to produce a drastically different effect.

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In Jacob van Ruisdael's captivating "View of Haarlem" (c. 1670-75), a totally flat, almost totally dark landscape lies under a canvas that is two-thirds billowing, sky-broken clouds.

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You, as Monroe, begin in a blank canvas everything around you is a flat, untextured white void.

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The house made its first flat trunk in 1856 and distinguished itself by making lighter cases with waterproof canvas (the Trianon canvas).

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The Vuitton family has quite a history: Company founder Louis was the first modern trunk-maker to make trunks flat on top (the better for stacking) and lighter (thanks to canvas sides) than the traditional stagecoach trunk.

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