What are the famous relief works?

The famous architectural relief "1792" on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, is a masterpiece of high relief. The artist successfully combines the techniques of round carving and relief, fully showing the complex hierarchical relationship of overlapping and ups and downs of characters, giving people a strong visual impact.

Wounded lion

The representative works of Assyrian relief, with vivid and accurate lines, skillfully grasp the touching instantaneous dynamics, and fully show the superb ability of Assyrian artists to portray images and render the atmosphere. Glazed pottery relief in the new Babylonian period has also made great artistic achievements. It shapes the image in the form of high relief, and then it is decorated with glaze, which makes the modeling subject more vivid and realistic.

Riders in the parade

The understanding of perspective shortening is more perfect, and the expression technique has reached a new depth, such as appropriately reducing the farthest part of the image while keeping the prominent part highly consistent; Images interweave, snuggle and overlap with each other, constantly conveying the depth of relief, thus causing people's illusion.

Extended data:

Relief is a semi-three-dimensional sculpture, in which the image is floating on the surface of the stone (just the opposite of re-carving). According to the different degree of stone removal in image modeling, it can be divided into shallow relief and high relief. Shallow relief is a single-level statue with a single content; High relief is a multi-level sculpture with complex content. The carving technique and expression style of relief are basically the same as those of round carving.

Many large-scale memorial buildings, high-grade mansions and houses in ancient and modern times have adopted this kind of decoration, and their main works are wall blocks, flower windows and dragon columns (in the early days) and column foundations.

The thin relief is mainly line, supplemented by surface, and the line and surface are combined. 2 ~ 5 mm deep. Thin and three-dimensional, lined with sparse and dense, knife washing practice; Yin carving is generally carved on the surface 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; High relief refers to a form of decompression, great fluctuation, close to circular carving or even semi-circular carving.

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