Associations to the word «Sculpture»

Pictures for the word «Sculpture»

Wiktionary

SCULPTURE, noun. (uncountable) The art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor
SCULPTURE, noun. (countable) A work of art created by sculpting.
SCULPTURE, noun. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
SCULPTURE, noun. (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell
SCULPTURE, verb. To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
SCULPTURE, verb. To represent something in sculpture.
SCULPTURE, verb. To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.

Dictionary definition

SCULPTURE, noun. A three-dimensional work of plastic art.
SCULPTURE, noun. Creating figures or designs in three dimensions.
SCULPTURE, verb. Create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice".
SCULPTURE, verb. Shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope