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Sculpture - What is It?
By Gerald Salazar
A sculpture is an art of designing and shaping of
figures usually done by carving, modeling, casting,
molding, wrought, sew, assembled or welded. It produces
a three dimensional art that is made up of either wax,
stone, ice, clay, wood, rubber, meta, fabric, plaster,
expensive materials such as gem stone or even other
object might do.
Sculpture was considered as representational art not
until 1900, because during these years, more
nonrepresentational sculpture was being done.
Sculpture is an art to convey message and also a mean to
express emotion. Sculptures may vary in every country
because of its culture. The ancient culture of
Mesopotamia and Egypt produces a vast amount of art work
that is usually huge and had important rites. Their
usual subject is the human form. One of its earliest
sculptures is the Venus of Willendorf. This is sculpture
of a female human body and said to be a Greek Goddess of
Love. The concept is very much idealistic and
magnificent that happens to be an inspiration for
European art and sculpture.
Great religious architectural design and sculptures were
made in Europe. A single church was incorporated by
thousands of descriptive and figural carvings. Wonderful
sculptures in cathedrals are can be found at Vezelay,
Autun, Hildensheim, Santiago de Compostela and Moissac.
The Ancient American Sculptures were sophisticated and
the styles are more enhanced and fantastic. Their art
work is more focused on nature. An Asian Sculpture was
highly developed.
Among the great sculpture in 20th century are Pablo
Picasso, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Ivan, Jacques Lipschitz,
Ossip Zadkine, Naum Gabo, Alberto Giacometti, and
Antoine Pevsner.
Due to rise of technology and modern development,
kinetic art and sculpture is developed. Huge stationary
and moving artwork in metal are normally manufactured
and assembled by machinists in factories with accordance
to the sculpture's specification and design.
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