Article: The constructed relief.

The Constructed Relief

The relief is an art form that dates back to the first inscriptions by Cro-Magnon man on cave walls. Those shallow, incised animal forms portray the essence of relief carving: the play of receding and projecting shapes on a plane in three-dimensional space. Thus the relief synthesizes the two-dimensional aspects of drawing and the three-dimensional properties of sculpture. The challenges this synthesis poses have fascinated artists throughout history; carved reliefs appear in Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Christian, Romanesque, Baroque and contemporary art.

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