Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal.
- noun A work of art created by sculpture.
- noun Such works of art considered as a group.
- noun Ridges, indentations, or other markings, as on a shell, formed by natural processes.
- intransitive verb To fashion (stone, bronze, or wood, for example) into a three-dimensional figure.
- intransitive verb To represent in sculpture.
- intransitive verb To ornament with sculpture.
- intransitive verb To change the shape or contour of, as by erosion.
- intransitive verb To make sculptures or a sculpture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physical geography, the change of land-forms by natural erosive processes.
- To represent in sculpture; carve; grave; form with the chisel or other tool on or in wood, stone, or metal.
- To ornament or cover with sculpture or carved work; carve.
- noun The act or art of graving or carving; the art of shaping figures or other objects in the round or in relief out of or upon stone or other more or less hard substances.
- noun Carved work; any work of sculpture, as a figure or an inscription cut in wood, stone, metal, or other solid substance.
- noun An engraving; an illustration.
- noun In zoöl., markings resulting from irregularity of surface or difference in texture of a part; tracery: as, the sculpture of an insect's wing-covers; the sculpture of the plates or shields of a fish; the sculpture of a turtle's shell.
- noun See the qualifying words.
- In physical geography, to change the forms of (the land) by natural erosive processes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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 Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.
- transitive verb To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
- transitive verb (Zoöl.) a common North American wood tortoise (
Glyptemys insculpta ). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
art ofshaping figures ordesigns in theround or inrelief , professionally performed by asculptor - noun countable A
work of art created bysculpting . - noun Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
- verb To
fashion something into athree-dimensional figure . - verb To
represent something in sculpture. - verb To change the
shape of aland feature byerosion etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun creating figures or designs in three dimensions
- verb create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material
- noun a three-dimensional work of plastic art
- verb shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Two and a half centuries of classical-art scholarship have given curators an array of reliable tools with which to assess whether a sculpture is a Greek original, a Roman copy, or a latter-day forgery.
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Two and a half centuries of classical-art scholarship have given curators an array of reliable tools with which to assess whether a sculpture is a Greek original, a Roman copy, or a latter-day forgery.
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This sculpture is about twenty-seven hundred years old, and is of peculiar interest as a striking testimony from Egypt to the truth of Scripture history.
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Mr. Chamberlain felt that even the word "sculpture" was limiting in describing art that, while functioning in three dimensions, could be made from almost anything.
NYT > Home Page By RANDY KENNEDY 2011
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When we first got news of the scale of the installation, a single continuous sculpture from the gallery's front door which pierces walls, making its way through the length of the gallery all the way to the back offices, our first response was -- "Wow!"
Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery Mark Wiener 2010
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When we first got news of the scale of the installation, a single continuous sculpture from the gallery's front door which pierces walls, making its way through the length of the gallery all the way to the back offices, our first response was -- "Wow!"
Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery Mark Wiener 2010
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Mr. Waters 'work in sculpture and photography is currently the subject of an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles: REAR PROJECTION.
Boing Boing 2009
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When we first got news of the scale of the installation, a single continuous sculpture from the gallery's front door which pierces walls, making its way through the length of the gallery all the way to the back offices, our first response was -- "Wow!"
Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery Mark Wiener 2010
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This incredible sculpture is by Vancouver-based artist Dirk Staschke.
Boing Boing 2009
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When we first got news of the scale of the installation, a single continuous sculpture from the gallery's front door which pierces walls, making its way through the length of the gallery all the way to the back offices, our first response was -- "Wow!"
Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery Mark Wiener 2010
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As he put it, ‘one of my favourite definitions of the difference between architecture and sculpture is whether there is plumbing’.
Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark and Le Corbusier – Tate Papers | Tate James Attlee 2024
supbob91 commented on the word sculpture
found in Merriam Webster's Dictionary pg 72
November 15, 2010