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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional artwork which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as…

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related to Gallery of modernist sculpture · 77
Sculpture → André Derain, Archipenko, Armory ShowOtto Gutfreund, Art, Art Deco, Art ModerneHenri Matisse, ArtAlexander Calder, ArtJoan Miró, ArtJoseph Csaky, Atmosphere, Barcelona, Berlin, Bird, Birth, Black Cover Flat, Brâncuși, Cellist, Chamberlain, Chicago, Chicago Picasso
related to 19th–early 20th century, early Modernism and continuing realism · 58
Sculpture → Antoine-Louis Barye, Arc, ArtPer Hasselberg, Auguste Rodin, Auguste Rodin The Burghers, Bath, Before, Calais, Camille Claudel, Copy, Day, Eros, European, FranceAlfred Gilbert, François Rude, Greater, He, His Sons, Hugo Rheinhold, Impressionist
related to Contemporary movements · 33
Sculpture → Also, American West, Andy Goldsworthy, Artists, Bruce Nauman, Christo, Chryssa, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Duane Hanson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Edward Kienholz, Eva Hesse, George Rickey, George Segal, Jackie Winsor, James Turrell, Jeanne-Claude, John DeAndrea, Keith Sonnier
related to Social status of sculptors · 31
Sculpture → Andrea, Arnolfo, Cambio, China, Even, From, Giambologna, Giovanni, Giovanni Pisano, Gislebertus, Goldsmiths, Greece, High Renaissance, In, Italy, Jacopo Sansovino, Leonardo, Leone Leoni, Many, Michelangelo
related to Ancient Near East · 27
Sculpture → Akkadian, Assyrian Black Obelisk, BCE, Copper Bull, Elam, From, It, Lyres, Many, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Ram, Royal Cemetery, Sculptures, Shalmaneser III, Stele, Stone, Sumerian, The Burney Relief
related to Modernism · 27
Sculpture → Abstract, Constructivism, Cubism, Dadaism, De Stijl, Formalism, Fountain, French, Futurism, Geometric, George, In, Installation, Kenneth Price, Land, Marcel Duchamp, Minimalism, Modernist, Ohr, Pablo Picasso
related to Ancient Egypt · 25
Sculpture → Abu Simbel, Ahkenaten, Amarna, BCE, Dynasty, Dynasty II, Dynasty IV, Dynasty XII, Early, Egypt, Egyptian, Greek, However, Ka, Most, Narmer Palette, Other, Rameses II, Small, The
related to Africa · 24
Sculpture → African, Akan, BCE, Benin Bronzes, CE, Congo, Direct, Egypt, Egyptian, European Modernist, Historically, Ife, In West Africa, Kush, Later West African, Masks, Niger, Nigeria, Nok, Sudan
related to Minimalism · 20
Sculpture → Cor-ten, Free Ride, Fulcrum, GermanyRichard Serra, Hirshhorn Museum, Ideogram, Israel Museum Art Garden, JerusalemJames Rosati, Liverpool Street, LondonDonald Judd, Modern Art, Museum, Münster, New York City, New YorkLarry Bell, Sculpture GardenDonald Judd, Tony Smith, Untitled, US, World Trade Center
related to Anti-sculpture movements · 17
Sculpture → Alhambra, Aniconism, Bamyan, Beeldenstorm, Buddhas, Buddhism, Christian Eastern Orthodoxy, Christianity, Early Christians, In Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Many, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Taliban, There

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Sculptureis abranch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions0.90text
Sculptureis athree-dimensional artwork which is physically presented in the dimensions of height0.90text
Sculptureis aequestrian statue of a rider on horse0.90text
Sculptureis aimportant form of public art0.90text
Sculptureis aancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone0.90text
Sculptureis aform of ephemeral sculpture that uses ice as the raw material0.90text
carvinginstance ofA wide variety of materials may be worked by removal0.80text
assembled by welding or modellinginstance ofA wide variety of materials may be worked by removal0.80text
or moulded or cast.Sculpture in stone survives far more frequently than sculpture made from perishable materialsinstance ofA wide variety of materials may be worked by removal0.80text
Michelangelo's statue of Davidinstance ofThe revival of classical models in the Renaissance produced famous sculptures0.80text
statuesinstance offree-standing sculpture0.80text
not attachedinstance offree-standing sculpture0.80text

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