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Sculpture

Bachelor's
Language: FrenchStudies in French
Subject area: arts
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Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded, or cast.
Sculpture
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature,
That fashions all her works in high relief,
And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,
Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire;
Men, women, and all animals that breathe
Are statues, and not paintings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, Part III. 5.
Sculpture
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows.
Michelangelo, Sonnet, Mrs. Henry Roscoe's translation.
Sculpture
In general, just as painters in working from models constantly gaze at their exemplar and thus strive to transfer the expression of the original to their own artistry, so too he who is anxious to make himself perfect in all the kinds of virtue must gaze upon the lives of the saints as upon statues, so to speak, that move and act, and must make their excellence his own by imitation.
Basil of Caesarea vol. 1, p. 17, Letters as translated by R. Deferrari (1926)
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