Sculpture is any three-dimensional form created as an artistic expression.
Sculpting is the art of assembling or shaping an object. It may be of any size and of an almost infinite number of materials. Traditional sculpting materials are: stone (e.g. marble, limestone, granite), clay (e.g. porcelain, terra-cotta), metal (e.g. bronze, iron, aluminum), and wood,as a medium. Modern and Contemporary materials include the environment, textiles, glass, sand, water, liquid crystals, many other man-made materials, as well as any found-objects. (In his late writings Joan Miro even proposed that some day sculptures might be made of gases (see gas sculpture).)
Some of the forms of sculpture are:
- Relief - sculpture still attached to a background, standing out from that ground in "High Relief" or "Low Relief" (bas-relief)
- Free-standing sculpture
- Mobile (See also Calder's Stabiles.)
- Statue
- Bust
- Site-Specific
Famous sculptors
- Pheidias
- Claus Sluter
- Michelangelo Buonarotti
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Antonio Canova
- Auguste Rodin
- Aristide Maillol
- Per Hasselberg
- Alberto Giacometti
- Marino Marini
- Constantin Brancusi
- Henry Moore
- Kiki Smith
External links:
- http://www.sculptor.org
- http://www.sculpture.org
- Unique mediums: (Sand) http://www.teamsandtastic.com
- http://www.greenmuseum.org The online museum of environmental art.
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