Content tagged with "art"
Bas Relief
“This is a sculpture style where the art is mostly two-dimensional , but the foreground is raised slightly from the background. The design is carved into a substance. ‘Relief’ originally meant ‘raised,’ and ‘bas’ means ‘low’ in French, so the art is literally ‘raised from a lower area.’ I sort of…”
Guggenheim Museums
“These are a series of museums – existing, closed, or planned – which were funded by the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim was a wealthy patron of the arts whose family made its fortune in mining and gold exploration. He died in 1949. Guggenheim created the foundation that bears his name in…”
