The alchemy whereby a painter will use the subtle relief of oils to express other layering – of embroidered cloth, or drapery – arouses in him a near-mystical fervour.
The Coastliner's face, with its small, sans-serif hour marker and the subtle relief design printed on the center may be my favorite part of the design, but every element comes together nicely.
He had been diffident in the opening 50 minutes, operating in the long shadow cast by his half-back partner Nikola Matawalu, but became assertive from the moment the scrum-half went off, one of the few players on the evening not interested in bashing his way through the defensive line, his subtle touches relief from the brutality of the exchanges.
Being multiple also provided subtle comic relief from an insufferable boss.
He said his name was Ramon, and there was a subtle flicker of relief on his face.
His subtle carvings and reliefs generated a calm, gentle sentiment, and he is known for many works of the Madonna, a recurrent Renaissance theme (e.g., Madonna and Child, 1478).
Nothing is subtle about Joan Giordano's relief sculpture.
It includes a large, late, lavender abstract painting by Tworkov; a depiction, by Janice Biala, of the Kunitz seasonal home in Provincetown, Mass.; one of Saul Steinberg's architectural fantasias in ink and gouache; and a small, subtle, easy-to-miss relief by Jeanne Reynal made from stone chips embedded in a sheet of concrete, like pebbles in beach sand.
It throws things into relief in a subtle way".
The stiacciato technique depends largely for its effect on the way in which pale materials, such as white marble, respond to light and show up the most delicate lines and subtle changes of texture or relief.
Bas relief allowed more subtle artistry but involved more carving than sunken relief.
