List of basic sculpture topics

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A sculpture is a human-made three-dimensional art object. Sculpture or sculpting is the activity of creating sculptures. A person who creates sculptures is called a sculptor. The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to sculpture:

Contents 1 Essence of sculpture 2 Types of sculpture 2.1 Styles of sculpture 3 History of sculpture 4 Basic sculpture concepts 5 Materials used in Sculpture 5.1 Traditional Materials 5.2 Modern Materials 6 Selected sculptors 6.1 Antiquity to the 19th century 6.2 19th to 20th century (Modern) 6.3 Contemporary 7 External links

[edit] Essence of sculpture

Main article: Sculpture

form

[edit] Types of sculpture

Bust - Miniature figure - Statue

[edit] Styles of sculpture

In and around - Relief

[edit] History of sculpture

Main article: History of sculpture

[edit] Basic sculpture concepts

Armature - Assemblage - Bronze - Bust - Casting - Chisel - Earth art - Environmental sculpture - Found object - Installation art - Kinetic sculpture - Marble - Mass and void - mobile - model - Readymade - Relief sculpture - Sculpture - Terracotta - The Nude - Patina

[edit] Materials used in Sculpture

[edit] Traditional Materials

Wood - Marble - Limestone - Granite - Porphyry - Diorite - Jade - Ivory - Clay - Terra cotta - Bronze - Gold - Silver

[edit] Modern Materials

Steel - Jesmonite - Acrylic - Plastic - Fiberglass - Glass - Aluminum - Fabric

[edit] Selected sculptors

See also: List of sculptors

[edit] Antiquity to the 19th century

• Phidias
• Myron
• Kresilas
• Polykleitos
• Nicola Pisano
• Giovanni Pisano
• Donatello
• Michaelangelo
• Giambologna
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini
• Antonio Canova

[edit] 19th to 20th century (Modern)

Auguste Rodin Adolf von Hildebrand Antoine Bourdelle Aristide Maillol François Pompon Medardo Rosso Ernst Barlach Charles Despiau Henri Matisse Constantin Brancusi Julio González (sculptor) Jacob Epstein Pablo Picasso

Gaston Lachaise Jose de Creeft Umberto Boccioni Vladimir Tatlin Jean/Hans Arp Kurt Schwitters Naum Gabo Frederick John Kiesler Jacques Lipchitz Max Ernst Alexander Rodchenko Joan Miró Henry Moore

Alexander Calder Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Lucio Fontana Jean Dubuffet Marino Marini Alberto Giacometti Germaine Richier Barbara Hepworth Chaim Gross Giacomo Manzù Isamu Noguchi David Smith (sculptor)

[edit] Contemporary

Louise Bourgeois James Rosati Tony Smith (sculptor) César Baldaccini Joseph Beuys Leonard Baskin Beverly Pepper Ellsworth Kelly Anthony Caro Eduardo Chillida George Segal (artist) Jean Tinguely

Donald Judd John Chamberlain (sculptor) Claes Oldenburg Marisol Escobar Robert Morris (artist) Fernando Botero Dan Flavin Mark di Suvero William G. Tucker Frank Stella Eva Hesse Isaac Witkin Robert Smithson

Richard Serra Nancy Graves Vito Acconci Joel Shapiro Barry Flanagan Martin Puryear Bruce Nauman Michael Heizer Rebecca Horn Richard Long (artist) Peter Reginato Alice Aycock Tony Cragg

[edit] External links

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• 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
• Masters of 20th Century Figure Sculpture

• Essays on sculpture from Sweet Briar College, Department of Art History
• International Sculpture Center
• Sculpture artists listings from the-artists.org

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