Outline of sculpture

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sculpture:

A sculpture – human-made three-dimensional art object.

Sculpture or sculpting – activity of creating sculptures. A person who creates sculptures is called a sculptor.

What type of thing is sculpture?

Sculpture can be described as all of the following:

• Art – aesthetic expression for presentation or performance, and the work produced from this activity. The word "art" is therefore both a verb and a noun, as is the term "sculpture".
  • Work of art – aesthetic physical item or artistic creation.
  • One of the arts – as an art form, sculpture is an outlet of human expression, that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. Sculpture is a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse.
    • A branch of the visual arts – visual arts is a class of art forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, architecture and others, that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature.
  • Fine art – in Western European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics, distinguishing it from applied art that also has to serve some practical function. The word "fine" here does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question, but the purity of the discipline according to traditional Western European canons.

Types of sculpture

• Architectural sculpture –
• Assemblage –
• Bas relief –
• Bust –
• Bust –
• Earth art –
• Environmental sculpture –
• Figurine –
• Installation art –
• Kinetic sculpture –
• Mobile –
• Statue –

Short-lived forms

• Ice sculpture
• Gas sculpture
• Sand sculpture

Styles of sculpture

• Detonography –
• Modern sculpture –
• Relief –

History of sculpture

Main article: History of sculpture

Elements

• Mass –
• Volume –

General sculpture concepts

• Armature –
• Casting –
• Chisel –
• Model –
• Nude –
• Readymade –
• Relief sculpture –
• Patina –

Materials used in sculpture

Traditional Materials

• Wood –
• Marble –
• Limestone –
• Granite –
• Porphyry –
• Diorite –
• Jade –
• Ivory –
• Clay –
• Terracotta –
• Bronze –
• Gold –
• Silver –

Modern Materials

• Steel –
• Jesmonite –
• Acrylic –
• Concrete
• Plastic –
• Fiberglass –
• Glass –
• Aluminum –
• Fabric –
• Found object –

Selected sculptors

See also: List of sculptors

Antiquity to the 19th century

• Phidias –
• Myron –
• Kresilas –
• Polykleitos –
• Agesander of Rhodes –
• Nicola Pisano –
• Giovanni Pisano –
• Donatello –
• Bertoldo di Giovanni –
• Domenico Rosselli –
• Benedetto da Maiano –
• Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli –
• Baccio da Montelupo –
• Giovanni Francesco Rustici –
• Michelangelo –
• Bartolommeo Bandinelli –
• Benvenuto Cellini –
• Raffaello da Montelupo –
• Giambologna –
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini –
• Antonio Canova –
• Jean-Antoine Houdon –

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 Brâncuși –
• Julio González –
• 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 –
• Isamu Noguchi –
• David Smith –
• Pablo Serrano –
• Giacomo Manzù –

Contemporary

• Louise Bourgeois –
• Tony Rosenthal –
• James Rosati –
• Tony Smith –
• César Baldaccini –
• Joseph Beuys –
• Leonard Baskin –
• Beverly Pepper –
• Ellsworth Kelly –
• Anthony Caro –
• Eduardo Chillida –
• George Segal –
• Jean Tinguely –
• Kenneth Snelson –
• Niki de Saint Phalle –
• John Chamberlain –
• Donald Judd –
• Claes Oldenburg –
• Nam June Paik –
• Wolf Vostell –
• Clement Meadmore –
• Lyman Kipp –
• Marisol Escobar –
• Robert Morris –
• Fernando Botero –
• Dan Flavin –
• Charles Ginnever –
• Mark di Suvero –
• William G. Tucker –
• Frank Stella –
• Eva Hesse –
• Isaac Witkin –
• Robert Smithson –
• Robert H. Hudson –
• Richard Serra –
• Nancy Graves –
• Vito Acconci –
• Joel Shapiro –
• Barry Flanagan –
• Martin Puryear –
• Bruce Nauman –
• John Raymond Henry –
• Michael Heizer –
• Rebecca Horn –
• Richard Long –
• Peter Reginato –
• Alice Aycock –
• Tony Cragg –
• Bill Barrett –

Arts similar to sculpture

• Bone carving –
• Collage –
• Costuming –
• Doll making –
• Dynamic textures –
• Earth Art –
• Floral design –
  • Ikebana –
• Glassblowing –
• Hologram –
• Ice carving –
• Ivory carving –
• Mask –
• Mosaics –
• Origami –
• Pottery –
• Pumpkin carving –
• Sand sculpture –
• Sugar sculpture –
• Wood carving –
• Wrought iron –

External links

• 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