Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane.
Definition. A ground or primer, is the background surface on which you paint. It is usually a coating such as a gesso primer, which physically separates your painting from the support. It is the foundation of a painting, applied onto the raw canvas, paper, or other support.
In traditional pure etching, a metal (usually copper, zinc or steel) plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where he or she wants a line to appear in the finished piece, so exposing the bare metal.
Answer:
French Classicism
Explanation:
When baroque aesthetics prevailed in Europe, a peculiar classicism was reborn in France, whose moment of splendor from 1654 to 1715 occurred in the reign of Louis XIV. The painter Charles Le Brun and the writer Nicolas Boileau, author of L'art poetique (1674), a very influential work, officially imposed this style.
In the reign of Louis XIV, the desire to glorify royalty - proper to monarchical absolutism - gave way to a majestic and imposing style. Its architectural paradigm was the palace of Versailles, reformed and enlarged successively by architects like Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart.
In 1667, the construction of the Louvre façade began with the architect Claude Perrault, “La Colonnada” (1664 - 1668). The pure French classicism that will mark the entire period of regency of this king.
