Word: bas-relief
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Counter said the structure is approximately 5 ft. by 4 ft. "It's very large, done in jet-black granite and gold," Counter said. "It has his face in bas-relief in gold with 'Arthur Robert Jr. Ashe,' then 'Distinguished Athlete. Scholar and Humanitarian...
...French naturalist Henri Mouhot came upon an enchanting temple buried in the jungle of western Cambodia. It thrust spires of finely carved sandstone into the sky, and its open galleries held an artistic treasure: more than a mile of delicate bas-relief stone panels. "It is grander than anything left us by Greece and Rome," wrote Mouhot in his diary...
...bridges need not be ugly, but with very few exceptions (Detroit's, for instance) they are. At their best, skywalks are bland modernist modules. At their worst, they are like the one that smashes headlong into Minneapolis' quirky turn-of-the-century Egyptian Building, nearly obliterating a carved bas-relief frieze. But aesthetics is not the biggest problem. Skywalks are, in most places most of the time, pseudo-sensible amenities. They are artifacts of an earlier, 1964 World's Fair era, when convenience -- insulation from nature and from the urban hurly-burly -- was the great American goal, neurotically pursued. Skywalks...
...frame also has its uses for artists looking to make abstract work more articulate. Two years ago, Robert Morris began showing a series of white bas-relief works that seemed to vent nuclear anxieties in a visual language of medieval fatalism. Embedded in an infernal slurry of plaster, human faces and fractured skeletons held the poses of apocalyptic death agony. This year Morris returned to painting with a series of more ambiguous abstractions. But a skeletal frieze has been retained along the frame to specify the note of mortal dread. Similarly, in 1979 Jasper Johns embedded a train of cutlery...
...Alain Delon and a planned film this spring with Burt Lancaster. Renoir just visited New York City to preview a limited edition of 318 bronzes (initial asking price: $15,000 each) that went on sale last week after being cast from great-granddad's newly found terra-cotta bas-relief Woman with Tambourine HI. It is the final sculpture he is known to have done before his death in 1919. Renoir, who does not want to emulate the half-dressed woman posing in the bronzes, limits her movie roles to those that do not call for nudity. In France...