Relief: relever french “to raise”, “portruding”

The relief is an artistic medium in which a figurative or abstract representation "stands out" three-dimensionally from a background. As an artform it is situated between painting, whose surface format it uses, and sculpture, whose corporeal appearance it assumes.

Students at HSRM had to choose a postcard from a selection of abstract 20th Century paintings, ranging from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism. The one day design challenge was to translate the spatial depth suggested by the color and texture of the painting into a monochrome relief of a material of choice, twice the size of the postcard.

Category: Teaching
Location: Wiesbaden
Year: 2024
Collaboration: Professor Georg Windeck

Student projects: Jackson Pollock @Sara Sawaizumi, Elsworth Kelly @Alina Scherer, Lee Krasner @Peri Thomas, Cy Twombly @Lara Rosemann, Jackson Pollock @Jessica Hess, John Cage @Katja Scheible, Cy Twombly @Chantal Volz,