Word: bas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reach into the future and old enough to recall the past. Artist Boris Chaliapin reached into the past for the background of his cover painting; but in a way, it does not seem so different from the never-never land of Southeast Asia today. It is from a bas-relief in the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, and it shows gods and demons pulling on a ropelike serpent in an effort to draw the liquid of immortality from the churning Sea of Milk...
...heart of Munich was struck by a fire-bomb raid. The incendiaries that crashed through the 160-ft.-high roof of the National-theater ignited a fire that burned for three days, melting the crystal chandeliers, blackening what remained of the ornate bas-reliefs and frescoes, consuming even the ranks of ivory chairs. For nearly two decades, the ruins of the 125-year-old home of the Bavarian State Opera stood as a grim souvenir of the war, a macabre memorial to its own glorious past...
...opposite page), all signs, symbols and literary allusions vanished. Still laid tubes of red and yellow against his surface and squeezed out streaks of lightning. Then he began slathering ever larger canvases with brutal expressions of his own will, great slabs of paint laid on almost as thick as bas-relief...
Bronze Shards. Aronson, 40, chairman of Boston University's art department, is a master of many techniques His eight-foot-tall drawings of The Concert show musicians levitating through clouds of charcoal. His bronze bas-reliefs have ragged edges as if these too were shards from some ancient temple Faces peer and hands pry through the surface as if trying to poke through to heaven. Although cast in medieval garb and aglow with the epicurean colors of Rembrandt, the art of David Aronson merely stages modern problems in ancient dress. What Aronson pictures is mans effort to cast aside...
...most effective works place bas-relief figures carved in red clay on a tile background. In the "Virgin Spring," the distorted angles and sharp indentations of the man's face suggest his cruelty; the girl's expression seems both fearful and frightening. The even ridges in the forehead, beard, and robe of "The Scholar" contribute to the peaceful mood of this work...