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 (MetalSmithing) –decoration
on metal ; done with
metal tools.