Sculptor

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A sculptor is an artist who creates three-dimensional works by carving, modeling, casting, or assembling materials like stone, metal, clay, or wood.

The term applies whether someone chisels marble in the classical tradition or welds scrap metal into modern abstractions: Rodin was perhaps the greatest sculptor of the nineteenth century.

craft

chisel

Edged carving implement

  • marbleRecrystallized limestone rock
  • clayMoldable earth for ceramics
  • carvingShaping by cutting away

modeling · stone · bronze · studio · tools · hammer · armature · maquette · plaster · wax

process

shaping

Giving something its form

fabrication · welding · assemblage · construction · installation · monumental · relief · freestanding · kinetic · abstract

artist

Michelangelo

Florentine sculptor and painter

Bernini · Bourgeois · visionary · masterpiece · commission · retrospective · gallery · exhibition · atelier · apprentice

body

hands

Gripping limbs' extremities

posture · physicality · endurance · precision · grip · dexterity · calluses · dust · goggles · apron

Categories
Opposites
creative role

Sculptordestroyer

One that ruins completely

iconoclast · demolisher · vandal · wrecker · dismantler

relationship to physical objects

Sculptordestroyer

One that ruins completely

dismantler · salvager · recycler

artistic medium dimensionality

Sculptorpainter

One who applies pigment

writer · composer · poet · photographer · musician

Phrases
Family

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