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…
