Sculpture
From Conservapedia
Sculpture is a form of art. It also means a three-dimensional work of plastic art. Sculpture as an art form goes back to Prehistoric times. Sculptor is who creates sculptures.
Sculpture, painting, architecture, music, literature, poetry, drama, dance, and cinema are some of the forms of Fine Arts.
Sculptures are made of stone, marble, wood, glass, bronze, iron or any other hard or plastic material that could be transformed into a three-dimensional object. The shaping figures could be in the round or in relief.
The main types of sculpture are bust, miniature figure and statue.
Sculptures are also categorized by the process into four categories:
- Carving - Cutting away material from an existing piece of material.
- Modeling - Shaping of a pliable material.
- Casting - Using a mold to shape a molten substance.
- Assembling - Creating a sculpture by connecting or unifying in some way objects.
Famous Sculptors
Michaelangelo is one of the most famous sculptors artists. Leonardo da Vinci worked as a sculptor from his youth on. He started a bronze horse at Milan, Italy that could not be finished by war. It was going to be the largest equine statue ever built. The full-scale model of the horse in clay was unveiled in November 1493. Sculptures and studies to sculptures by LEONARDO da Vinci
Sculpture masterpieces are all over the world. Many different forms were used in the many different regions (China, India, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Italy, etc.). Sculpture in the ancient Americas developed in Mexico and Peru.
Auguste-René Rodin (1840 - 1917) is considered one of the greatest and most prolific sculptors of the 19th and 20th centuries; several of his most famous sculptures, such as The Thinker, The Kiss and The Three Shades, were derived from smaller reliefs contained within The Gates of Hell... He modeled portrait busts and large scale versions of well known people, such as the Monument to Victor Hugo. [1]
More recently Henry Moore (1898 – 1986), British artist, became well known for his larger-scale abstract cast bronze and carved marble sculptures.
Sculptors - Chronological Listing
See also
External links
- Leonardo da Vinci Sculpture
- August Rodin
- Sculpture Numerous examples.
- The Sculpture Center Art of Ohio.
- Andrew Dunn web site With Henry Moore work.
- Mary Ann Sullivan web site Bluffton University.
- History of sculpture From ancient China, Greece and India to Gothic France and Victorian England.
- Andrea del Verrocchio
Draped Reclining Woman, Henry Moore. Mary Ann Sullivan photographer.
