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Sculpture
Sculpture Sculp"ture (?; 135), n. [L. sculptura: cf. F.
sculpture.]
1. 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.
2. Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal,
etc.
There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen The
mad affection of the Cretan queen. --Dryden.
SculptureSculpture Sculp"ture (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Sculptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Sculpturing.]
To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or
metal; to carve; to engrave.
Sculptured tortoise (Zo["o]l.), a common North American
wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked
with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured
figures.
Meaning of Sculpture from wikipedia
- Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used...
- Fountain, or the Thompson Elk, is a historic outdoor fountain and bronze sculpture by American artist Roland Hinton Perry. The statue was donated to the...
- sculptures: Spider or Crouching Spider Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture by the artist Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture,...
- Marble sculpture is the art of creating three-dimensional forms from marble. Sculpture is among the oldest of the arts. Even before painting cave walls...
- Chryselephantine sculpture (from Gr**** χρυσός, chrysós, 'gold', and ελεφάντινος, elephántinos, 'ivory') is sculpture made with gold and ivory. Chryselephantine...
- Cl****ical sculpture (usually with a small "c") refers generally to sculpture from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, as well as the ****enized and Romanized...
- Johnson, Jr. in 1980 as part of Washington, DC's 11th annual Sculpture Conference, and the sculpture was originally installed at Hains Point in East Potomac...
- Bronze is the most po****r metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply a "bronze". It can be used for statues, singly...
- A mobile (UK: /ˈmoʊbaɪl/,US: /ˈmoʊbiːl/) is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of equilibrium. It consists of...
- A Stone sculpture is an object made of stone which has been shaped, usually by carving, or ****embled to form a visually interesting three-dimensional...
