Sculptor
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Western sculpture was first perfected in
Greece
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. The artist who does this is called a sculptor.
Traditional materials
Traditional sculpting materials are:
Contemporary materials
A sculpture: "Mother with child"
In his late writings, Joan Miró even proposed that some day sculptures might
be made of gases; see gas sculpture.
Other materials used in modern and contemporary sculpture include:
Perhaps the least elitist of these media is sand, as it is used by young and old to create sand castles.
A tree sculpture at Bristol Zoo, Bristol, England. This was sculpted with a chain saw from a standing tree, which was diseased
and due to be felled
Forms
Some of the forms of sculpture are:
Perhaps the majority of public art is sculpture. See also sculpture garden.
Sculptors
Sculptors include the Classical Greek masters, through Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da
Vinci and the Renaissance masters, to modern sculptors such as Henry Moore, Felix de
Weldon and Alexander Ney.
- 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.
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