Sculpture
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.
A tree sculpture at Bristol Zoo, Bristol, England. This has been sculpted, with a chain saw, from a standing tree. The tree was diseased and would otherwise have been felled.
Traditional sculpting materials are:
Modern and contemporary materials include:
- the environment
- textiles
- glass
- sand
- water
- ice
- snow
- liquid crystals
- many other man-made materials
- found objects
- sound
Image of a sculpture
Perhaps the least elitist of these media is sand, as it is used by young and old to create sand castles.
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
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.
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.
See: List of sculptors
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See also: sculpture basic topics
