Sculpture is a type of artwork that's two or three dimensional, so you can see it from different sides. You can make sculpture from clay, marble, wood, and even mashed potatoes, though the potato kind might not make it into an art museum.
The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
Noun
creating figures or designs in three dimensions
Noun
a three-dimensional work of plastic art
Verb
shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"
Verb
create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"
n.
The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone,
metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men,
or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups,
whether in plastic or hard materials.
n.
Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal,
etc.
v. t.
To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone,
or metal; to carve; to engrave.
Sculpture
There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
Sculpture
The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
Usage Examples
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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Other Usage ExamplesWell, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
The skull is nature's sculpture.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
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