Relief

Kelly O’Briant3D Design, Spring 2013

Often artist works into the front of a surface or form (such as a wall or ceiling), leaving the back of the surface untouched.

A bas-relief or low relief refers to the projection of an image or form with an overall shallow depth. The background is very compressed or completely flat. Example: coins

High relief refers to a composition in which the most prominent 3D elements are undercut and rendered at more than 50% in the round.

High Relief Low Relief

Lorenzo Ghiberti’s gilded bronze, “Doors of Paradise”, Florence, combine high relief figures with low relief backgrounds

The Gates of Hell, Auguste Rodin, 1917.

Girl with Doves, marble, Greek, 300 B.C.

Five Figure Plaque, Benin, 17th century bronze.

Louise Nevelson:

Cascade, 1964, wood and paint,

Louise Nevelson:

Bride and Disk and Groom and Disk, 1959-67. Wood, paint.

Early American grave stones.John Bartlett, 1773.

Unknown gravestone, Early American.

Tom Otterness, Frieze at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, N.C.

Detail of frieze in Greensboro, NC.

Tom Otterness, frieze in Cultural Council of Palm Beach County.

Arcosanti - Paolo Soleri

Arcosanti - Paolo Soleri

Earth casting

Arcosanti - Paolo SoleriEarth Casting

Arcosanti - Paolo SoleriEarth Casting

Arcosanti - Paolo SoleriBronze Casting

Arcosanti - Paolo SoleriBronze Casting

SlipCasting

Arcosanti - Slip Casting

• Making our plaster relief sculptures…..

Begin by creating a clay model…Image and piece by Dick Bohnam.

…In REVERSE of what you want in the end!

Build up walls around the piece to hold the plaster. The wall should be taller than the end thickness of the piece.

• Pour your plaster, let it set up, remove clay, clean up plaster cast.