Sculpture
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Sculptor redirects here. You may also be looking for Sculptor (constellation). 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 any suitable material.
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2 Contemporary materials 3 Forms 4 Sculptors 5 Greenfield Products Pty Ltd v. Rover-Scott Bonnar Ltd 6 Nudity 7 Related topics 8 External links |
Traditional materials
Traditional sculpting materials are:
Contemporary materials
Other materials used in modern and contemporary sculpture include:
- the environment
- polymers, and many other synthetic materials
- textiles
- metal
- glass
- sand
- water, ice, snow
- liquid crystals
- frozen blood, dead animals
- found objects
- sound
Perhaps the least elitist of these media is sand, as it is used by young and old to create sand castles.
Forms
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
- Equestrian
- Jewellery
- Medallion
Sculptors
Sculptors include the Classical Greek masters, through Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance masters, to modern sculptors such as Henry Moore and Felix de Weldon.
- See also: List of sculptors
Greenfield Products Pty Ltd v. Rover-Scott Bonnar Ltd
The Australian copyright case of Greenfield Products Pty Ltd v. Rover-Scott Bonnar Ltd (1990) 17 IPR 417 is authority for the proposition that a thing not intended to be a sculpture is not a sculpture. This seems contrary to some famous examples of sculpture, including Marcel Duchamp's 1917 sculpture consisting of a porcelain urinal lying on its back, entitled "Fountain", and Carl Andre's sculpture "Equivalent III" exhibited in the Tate Gallery in 1978, consisting of bricks stacked in a rectangle.
Nudity
Nude sculptures are more common and accepted than public nudity of real people.
Related topics
- Sculpture basic topics
- Kouros
External links