Relief art

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Building on our previous project, focusing on folk art and scenes, you will create a shallow relief sculpture made entirely of cardboard and later it will be painted. You will have to think about...

Creating a new body of work that connects me to long traditions in sculpture- wall relief art- that are for some reason not widely pursued by sculptors today. It has been fun figuring out a new way of working that has immediacy, cultural resonance, flexibility and feels alive.&am

Bas Relief Sculpture, Plaster Wall Art - online and in-person classes.

This relief on canvas by our entrant Adriana Potkanska depicts a surreal tree with hands raising up amongst branches. A relief painting is carved, creating a “raised” two-dimensional surface on a canvas, which is then painted. This unique way of depicting art can show true thought and emotive language behind the work of the artist. Using sculpting as a way of portraying a 3D effect as the art protrudes off the canvas can give a whole new experience to this work.

Bas-Relief is a technique as old as humankind's very first artistic endeavors, a way of sculpting figures that are slightly raised from a flat surface. Bas-Relief sculptures could be found on the walls of all kinds of buildings and temples from ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece, and now it's making a comeback.