Answer: a type of sculpture that contains objects embedded in a ground surface.
A relief sculpture is __________________
Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane. What is actually performed when a relief is cut in from a flat surface of stone (relief sculpture) or wood (…
Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane. What is actually performed when a relief is cut in from a flat surface of stone (relief sculpture) or wood (relief carving) is a lowering of the field leaving the unsculpted parts seemingly raised. The technique involves considerable chiselling away of the background which is a time-consuming exercise. On the other hand a relief saves forming the rear of a subject and is less fragile and more securely fixed than a sculpture in the round especially one of a standing figure where the ankles are a potential weak point especially in stone. In other materials such as metal clay plaster stucco ceramics or papier-mâché the form can be just added to or raised up from the background and monumental bronze reliefs are made by casting. There are different degrees of relief depending on the degree of projection of the sculpted form from the field for which the Italian and French terms are still sometimes used in English. The full range includes high relief (alto-rilievo haut-relief) where more than 50% of the depth is shown and there may be undercut areas mid-relief (mezzo-rilievo) low relief (basso-rilievo or French: bas-relief (French pronunciation: [baʁlijɛf]) and shallow-relief or rilievo schiacciato where the plane is only very slightly lower than the sculpted elements. There is also sunk relief which was mainly restricted to Ancient Egypt (see below). However the distinction between high relief and low relief is the clearest and most important and these two are generally the only terms used to discuss most work. The definition of these terms is somewhat variable and many works combine areas in more than one of them sometimes sliding between them in a single figure; accordingly some writers prefer to avoid all distinctions. The opposite o… Read more on Wikipedia
The distinction between high and low relief is somewhat subjective and the two are very often combined in a single work. In particular most later “high reliefs” contain sections in low relief usually in the background. From the Parthenon Frieze onwards many single figures in large monumental sculpture have heads in high relief but their lower legs are in low relief. The slightly projecting figures created …
The distinction between high and low relief is somewhat subjective and the two are very often combined in a single work. In particular most later “high reliefs” contain sections in low relief usually in the background. From the Parthenon Frieze onwards many single figures in large monumental sculpture have heads in high relief but their lower legs are in low relief. The slightly projecting figures created in this way work well in reliefs that are seen from below and reflect that the heads of figures are usually of more interest to both artist and viewer than the legs or feet. As unfinished examples from various periods show raised reliefs whether high or low were normally “blocked out” by marking the outline of the figure and reducing the background areas to the new background level work no doubt performed by apprentices (see gallery). Low relief or bas-relief A low relief is a projecting image with a shallow overall depth for example used on coins on which all images are in low relief. In the lowest reliefs the relative depth of the elements shown is completely distorted and if seen from the side the image…
Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane. What is actually performed when a relief is cut in from a flat surface of stone (relief sculpture) or wood (…
Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane. What is actually performed when a relief is cut in from a flat surface of stone (relief sculpture) or wood (relief carving) is a lowering of the field leaving the unsculpted parts seemingly raised. The technique involves considerable chiselling away of the background which is a time-consuming exercise. On the other hand a relief saves forming the rear of a subject and is less fragile and more securely fixed than a sculpture in the round especially one of a standing figure where the ankles are a potential weak point especially in stone. In other materials such as metal clay plaster stucco ceramics or papier-mâché the form can be just added to or raised up from the background and monumental bronze reliefs are made by casting. There are different degrees of relief depending on the degree of projection of the sculpted form from the field for which the Italian and French terms are still sometimes used in English. The full range includes high relief (alto-rilievo haut-relief) where more than 50% of the depth is shown and there may be undercut areas mid-relief (mezzo-rilievo) low relief (basso-rilievo or French: bas-relief (French pronunciation: [baʁlijɛf]) and shallow-relief or rilievo schiacciato where the plane is only very slightly lower than the sculpted elements. There is also sunk relief which was mainly restricted to Ancient Egypt (see below). However the distinction between high relief and low relief is the clearest and most important and these two are generally the only terms used to discuss most work. The definition of these terms is somewhat variable and many works combine areas in more than one of them sometimes sliding between them in a single figure; accordingly some writers prefer to avoid all distinctions. The opposite o… Read more on Wikipedia
The distinction between high and low relief is somewhat subjective and the two are very often combined in a single work. In particular most later “high reliefs” contain sections in low relief usually in the background. From the Parthenon Frieze onwards many single figures in large monumental sculpture have heads in high relief but their lower legs are in low relief. The slightly projecting figures created …
The distinction between high and low relief is somewhat subjective and the two are very often combined in a single work. In particular most later “high reliefs” contain sections in low relief usually in the background. From the Parthenon Frieze onwards many single figures in large monumental sculpture have heads in high relief but their lower legs are in low relief. The slightly projecting figures created in this way work well in reliefs that are seen from below and reflect that the heads of figures are usually of more interest to both artist and viewer than the legs or feet. As unfinished examples from various periods show raised reliefs whether high or low were normally “blocked out” by marking the outline of the figure and reducing the background areas to the new background level work no doubt performed by apprentices (see gallery). Low relief or bas-relief A low relief is a projecting image with a shallow overall depth for example used on coins on which all images are in low relief. In the lowest reliefs the relative depth of the elements shown is completely distorted and if seen from the side the image…