High Relief

A relief scul--pture is a sculpture where the figures are carved out from and are still attached to a surface. High relief is a type of relief where the figures poke out a lot.

Jason deCaires Taylor

James deCaires Taylor makes beautiful underwater sculptures like these ones.They are calm and mysterious.

Balloons

Here are some balloon sculptures made by the artist Masayoshi Matsumoto:

   I like this Fish because of the contrast made between its graceful buoyancy and it fragile, poppable nature

The artist is able to convey many different textures in the animals: slimy, squishy, or scaly.

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder was a sculptor who made  hanging abstract sculptures called "mobiles"

He was influenced by Piet Mondrian, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Arp

Shoes

These are "reverse heels". They are very disturbing.

These heels are also strange, but less frightening

This "inversion" of typical shoe design is quite common

These are called "armadillo shoes"

No heel!

More armadillos