1. Relief- A sculpture that projects from the background surface

1. Types of Relief Paintings

a. Low Relief (Bas)- The sculpture projects only slightly from the background surface

High Relief (Alto)

• b. High Relief (Alto)- the sculpture projects at least half of itself from the background

Sunken Relief (Itaglio)-

• c. Sunken Relief (Itaglio)- The sculpture is sunk below the level of the surrounding surface

2. Shaka

• Born in 1975

• Attracted by the counter- culture movement

Influenced by Van Gogh & German Expressionism

human excess, absurdity of our behaviors

3. Paolo Curcio

• Know for Hobo Nickles

Uses clad coins to reveal the layer beneath with etching

References Pop Culture

4. Janusz Obst

• Born in Poland on 1946

• Climbed Mount Everest

• “I want to express profound happenings in everyday life within the context of the modern world. My art is my life and passion.”

5. Relief Oil Paintings with Aluminum

Create 4 small oil paintings of an animal to create a complete painting. –Begin with the face

–Plan a theme to go with your mount and your 3 additional plates

–Create physical and suggested texture • 6. Physical texture- texture you can touch

• 7. Suggested texture- texture that is painted

– Apply an interesting pallet of colors. • Blending & mixing colors

Color

• The following are artist who used a strong pallet of colors

• Colors

Van Gogh

Monet

Monet

Using Aluminum

8. Repousse – Forming a pattern in metal by pushing up from the underside.

9. Metal Tooling (Metal-Smithing) –decoration on metal ; done with metal tools.