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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...
- The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture...
- A sculpture garden or sculpture park is an outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently sited works in durable...
- Ancient Gr**** sculpture is the sculpture of ancient Greece. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture. At all periods there...
- currents. In 2012, the sculpture was repainted using the historic "Calder Red" color. Calder was commissioned to design the sculpture because of his well-established...
- 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...
- A stone sculpture is an object made of stone which has been carved or ****embled to form a visually interesting three-dimensional shape. Stone carving...
- 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...
- soon graced a po****r US postage stamp. Love's original rendering in sculpture was made in 1970 and is displa**** in Indiana at the Indianapolis Museum...
