What types of reliefs are there?

Relief mainly includes niche, high relief, shallow relief, line carving, hollowing out and other forms.

1. China ancient grotto sculptures can be summarized as shrine sculptures, which can be divided into realism, decoration and abstraction according to different modelling technique.

2. The thin relief is dominated by lines, supplemented by surfaces, and the lines and surfaces are combined. 2 ~ 5 mm deep. Thin and three-dimensional, lined with sparse and dense, knife washing practice;

3. The intaglio carvings are generally carved on the surfaces of boxes, cabinets, beds and cabinets. Instead of drawing a manuscript, use a knife instead of a pen to carve Wen Yin patterns with a lively knife method;

4. High relief refers to a form of decompression, large fluctuation, close to circular carving or even semi-circular carving. This relief has a strong contrast between light and shade, and the visual effect is outstanding;

5. The bas-relief has large compression and small fluctuation, which not only maintains the straightness of a building, but also has a certain sense of volume and fluctuation;

6. Line engraving is a combination of painting and sculpture. It is produced by light and shadow, taking light as a ghost, and even has some subtle ups and downs, giving people an elegant and subtle feeling;

7. Hollow carving is to remove the so-called embossed bottom plate, thus creating a changeable negative space, so that the contours of negative space and positive space have a rhythm of mutual transformation. This technology used to be used in doors and windows railing furniture, and some can look at both sides.