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 was sculpted with a chain saw from a standing tree, which was diseased and due to be felled
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2 Contemporary materials 3 Forms 4 Sculptors 5 Greenfield Products Pty Ltd v. Rover-Scott Bonnar Ltd 6 Nudity 7 Related topics 8 External links |
Traditional materials
Traditional sculpting materials are: Contemporary materials
Other materials used in modern and contemporary sculpture include:
- the environment
- polymers, and many other synthetic materials
- textiles
- metal
- glass
- sand
- water, ice, snow
- balloons
- liquid crystals
- frozen blood, dead animals
- found objects
- sound
A sculpture: "Mother with child
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:
Forms
Perhaps the majority of public art is sculpture.
Sculptors
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.
- 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.
Nude sculptures are more common and accepted than public nudity of real people.
Nudity
Related topics
External links