Word: bas-relief
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Twenty years ago, San Francisco landscape architect Lawrence Halprin took over the enterprise and began to orchestrate an open gallery depicting F.D.R.'s four terms with 10 sculptures, both free-standing and bas-relief, and 23 slabs inscribed with the President's words. Progress was steady but tortured. A proposed statue of Eleanor Roosevelt, F.D.R.'s peripatetic wife, showed her in the New Deal period wearing her famous traveling fur piece. But to head off the animal-rights people, Eleanor was moved from the mid-1930s gallery to the time after F.D.R.'s death when she was a delegate...
...Wednesday afternoon, if current plans hold, the little known Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission will gather yet again on Capitol Hill and, in nervous reverence, study secret photos of a 1-ft. by 3-ft. model for a bas-relief sculpture. The finished artwork, by California sculptor Robert Graham, would be three times that size and grace the entrance to the memorial. It is a work showing a triumphant Roosevelt riding in an open car down Pennsylvania Avenue after his 1933 Inauguration...
...suppose that Cro-Magnon cave art was rare and exceptional. But wrongly; as New York University anthropologist Randall White points out, more than 200 late-Stone Age caves bearing wall paintings, engravings, bas-relief decorations and sculptures have been found in southwestern Europe alone. Since the discovery of Lascaux in 1940, French archaeologists have been finding an average of a cave a year-and, says professor Denis Vialou of Paris' Institute of Human Paleontology, "there are certainly many, many more to be discovered, and while many might not prove as spectacular as Lascaux or Chauvet, I'd bet that some...
...shut again. The only relief from the close churning of forms is a curious "window" at the middle of the painting -- red, white and blue -- that looks like a blurred American flag. The work's space is not deep, as the title might suggest, but shallow, like a bas-relief. You keep expecting the image to fly apart into formal incoherence, but it never does: it has the kind of control you see in great drivers or skaters, a supple rigor that seems to exist only on the edge of its own dissolution. One is tempted to say that Excavation...
Underneath that is a bas-relief gold representation of Ashe's book about the history of Black athletes in American culture, "A Hard Road to Glory." It sits atop two crossed gold tennis rackets, representing Ashe's well-known career, Counter said...