Sculpture

Sculpture

The practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief - such as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal - in order to create a work of art.

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Sculpture

The process whereby a sculptor adds wet clay or other soft medium such as wet plaster or cement or other media to build up or construct his or her original artwork - often using an armature. It is ...

Mould

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

A hollow, or negative container used in the process of casting to give its form to a substance placed within (wax for the bronze lost-wax process, or plaster, cement, resin loaded or not with slate, ...

Multimedia sculpture

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

Multimedia is media that uses multiple forms of information content and information processing (e.g. text, audio, graphics, animation, video, interactivity). Similarly to mixed media art, the artist ...

Marble

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

In its entire form, one of the hardest stones to carve; in fact a hard type of limestone (more or less crystallised by metamorphism), often with streaks. Takes a high polish if desired. Also one of ...

Medium

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

Referred to as the material used for a given sculpture. Bronze, terra cotta, plaster and steel are all examples of media.

Metal

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

1. A chemical element that is more or less shiny, can be hammered, welded or stretched, as iron, gold, aluminum, lead and magnesium. Distinguished from an alloy. In wire or wire mesh form (of varying ...

Mixed media

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

The term is generally used when two or more media are used in a single work of art, e.g. metal and wood, or metal, wood and stone. Mixed media include plastics, fibres, and any man-made or natural ...