Bas Relief / Low Relief Sculpture

 Paul Day contemporary Sculptor who has produced a series of monumental sculptural pieces sited in London

Meeting Point sited on the upper level at St Pancras Station in London

The main section of the sculpture is the pair of figures

Beneath the figures is a circular frieze that goes around the base, Made in clay and cast into metal this is a Bas Relief with elements of high relief on a sculptural mural of scenes that relate to the station.

The level of detail is incredible but look at how he has suggested a photographic or paintly sense of distance in what is bas relief or almost flat sculpture

Battle Of Britain Memorial Thames Embankment London

https://www.military-history.org/feature/victoria-embankments-battle-of-britain-monument.htm

Article that explains the difference between high and low relief

Podules - Textiles Natural Forms - Jan Niedojadlo

 

Jan uses Textiles and Plastics over wire framework to construct these large scale abstract pieces based on natural forms. Unlike many large sculptural pieces they are also environments that viewers can get inside to experience different kinds of spaces.

https://www.podules.org/

https://www.instagram.com/pod_sensory_sculptures

Showing reflection and thought through pose and body language

 Auguste Rodin The Thinker (1904)

Rodin's Sculpture has been cast a number of times and there are multiple versions in different locations

Kathe Kollwitz

German Artist who depicted the struggle of life in Germany in the late Nineteenth Century and the first half of the 20th Century. Kollwitz and her family lived and grew up in an overcrowded district of Berlin full of cramped apartments with poor unsanitary conditions. Look at how she uses body language to communicate feelings and emotions

Blog Article on Kollwitz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Kollwitz

Thomas Eakins

The Thinker ;  Portrait of Louis N Kerton

Gustave Courbet -  Despair 1845

Vincent Van Gogh Old Man in Sorrow ( At Eternity's Gate) 1890

Reflections 'Audrey Flack' Still Life Using Mirrors and Reflections

 

Rich Art 1973 Painting

Jolie Madame 1972 Painting

World War 2 Vanitas 1976 - 1977 Painting

Chanel 1974 Painting

Spitfire Painting 

Smithsonian Museum Article on Audrey Flack

Year Ten GCSE Portrait Project - Vincent Van Gogh

 Vincent Van Gogh painted a number of self portraits between  1886 and 1889

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portraits_of_Vincent_van_Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh alo produced a large number of portraits of others

John Henry Lorimer Interiors and Windows

 Anna in Y12 found John Henry Lorimer an Artist and Painter I did not know. John Henry painted interiors that often showed family members of people using the room. He painted Portraits but I think his interiors including a window where he is capturing light and the difference between interior and exterior light are particularly fine

John Henry Lorimier (1856 - 1936)

A Room at Twilight : Kellie Castle

John Henry Lorimier (1856 - 1936)

Sunlight in the South Room : Kellie

John Henry Lorimier (1856 - 1936)

Spring Moonlight

John Henry Lorimier (1856 - 1936)

Grandmother's Birthday

John Henry Lorimier (1856 - 1936)

Flight Of The Swallows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Lorimer