sculpture
A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
Other meanings
More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.
Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
A kind of
- plastic art
- solid figure
Kinds of sculpture
- bronze
- carving
- marble
- mobile
- mold
- relief
- statue
Related words
- anonymous sculpture
- soft sculpture
- kinetic sculpture
- living sculpture
- involuntary sculpture
- liposculpture
- macrosculpture
- microsculpture
- morphosculpture
- photosculpture
- resculpture
- sculpturable
Word history
From Latin "sculptūra".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “sculpture” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.