- "Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions." - "Sculpture is the three-dimensional artwork which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width, and depth."
The practice of creating three-dimensional artwork using various materials and techniques, which is often an essential component of installation art pieces.
The History of Sculpture: The evolution of sculpture from ancient times to contemporary works.
Sculptural Techniques: The methods and techniques used to create sculptures.
Sculpture Materials: The materials used to create sculptures, such as wood, metal, stone, clay, and more.
Tools for Sculpting: The tools required to create different sculptural forms.
Sculptural Forms and Styles: The different styles and forms of sculpture, such as representational, abstract, minimalist, and more.
Installation Art: The definition of installation art and its history, with an exploration of the use of space and the interaction between the viewer and the artwork.
Spatial Concepts: The manipulation of space and the use of scale in sculpture and installation art.
Found Objects: The use of found objects in sculpture and installation art to create meaning and context.
Conceptual Art: The role of ideas over aesthetics in installation art.
Contemporary Art Practices: The current trends and practices in contemporary sculpture and installation art, including social and environmental issues, technology, and more.
Environmental Sculpture: Environmental sculpture involves creating artworks which interact with the surrounding environment. It usually involves creating installations that fuse with nature or urban settings.
Site-specific Sculpture: Site-specific sculptures are art installations that are specifically designed for a particular location or site. These sculptures may be altered, dismantled or moved if they are moved to another location.
Light Sculpture: Light sculpture is an artwork that combines sculpture and lighting to create a unique and compelling installation. Sculptures can be made of different materials illuminated by different light sources such as neon lights, LED lights or projection.
Kinetic Sculpture: Kinetic sculptures are artworks that feature movement. These sculptures usually have moving parts that are somehow powered or moved by energy, such as wind or electricity.
Sound Sculpture: Sound sculpture is an installation art form that utilizes sound as the primary medium for creating an artwork that explores the relationship between sound vibrations, music and its audience.
Interactive Sculpture: Interactive installations are designed to engage and involve the viewers, allowing them to manipulate or participate in the artwork in some way. It can be achieved through touch, motion sensors or other tech tools.
Time-based Sculpture: Time-based installations are sculptures that evolve or change over time. For example, they may respond to the changing light or sound, or shift in response to natural forces such as wind, water, or temperature.
Land Art: Land art is an installation art form that incorporates the natural environment. This usually means creating installations with natural materials such as rocks, soil and vegetation, often in remote or natural landscapes.
Found Object Sculpture: Found object sculptures are created from objects found in daily life such as discarded objects, or household items, transformed into a new context.
Performance Sculpture: This type of art modification involves creating live performances that are sculptural in nature. Often acting out a story or theme, viewers observe the performance as a sculptural body.
Mixed-Media Sculpture: Mixed-media artworks are created by combining various materials such as glass, metal or plastic, to build a new sculpture with a specific form of unity.
- "Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay)." - "A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast."
- "Durable sculptural processes...in stone, metal, ceramics, wood, and other materials." - "Since Modernism, there has been almost complete freedom of materials and process."
- "Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials." - "Most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost."
- "Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures." - "Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in Central and South America and Africa."
- "Large sculptures were usually an expression of religion or politics."
- "The Western tradition of sculpture began in ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as producing great masterpieces in the classical period."
- "Gothic sculpture represented the agonies and passions of the Christian faith."
- "The revival of classical models in the Renaissance produced famous sculptures such as Michelangelo's statue of David."
- "Modernist sculpture moved away from traditional processes and the emphasis on the depiction of the human body." - "Modernist sculpture...the making of constructed sculpture, and the presentation of found objects as finished artworks."
- "Sculpture is the three-dimensional artwork which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width, and depth."
- "Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay)."
- "Sculpture in stone, metal, ceramics, wood, and other materials." - "A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast."
- "Most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost."
- "Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures." - "Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in Central and South America and Africa."
- "Large sculptures were usually an expression of religion or politics."
- "The Western tradition of sculpture began in ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as producing great masterpieces in the classical period."
- "Gothic sculpture represented the agonies and passions of the Christian faith."
- "The revival of classical models in the Renaissance produced famous sculptures such as Michelangelo's statue of David."
- "Modernist sculpture moved away from traditional processes and the emphasis on the depiction of the human body." - "Modernist sculpture...the making of constructed sculpture, and the presentation of found objects as finished artworks."