Sculpture digest

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38,000 BCE – 510 BCE
500 BCE – 9 BCE
0 – 1545
1550-1799

1800-1919
1920-1989
1990-

Watch this brilliant Philip Scott Johnson© video featuring many
of the major pieces of classical sculpture here

Sculpture is three-dimensional art made by one of four basic processes: carving, modelling, casting, constructing.

Carving shapes a form by cutting or scraping away from a solid material such as stone, wood, ivory or bone.

Casting creates a mould and then a liquid material is poured into it – molten metal, plastic, rubber or fibreglass. Often the artist models form in clay, wax or plaster and the mould is made from this. Of course a mould can be cast more than onceto produce editions of the artwork.

Modelling is an additive process, a soft material is worked by the artist to build up a shape or form. The soft materials, clay and wax can be changed and reworked. Modelling a maquette is often the first step in the creation of a finished sculpture.

Constructing began in the 20th century, fabricated from gluing materials together. Constructed sculpture in various forms became a major stream in modern art. Artists have used techniques including bending, folding, stitching, welding, bolting, tying, weaving, and balancing to construct sculptures from a wide variety of materials.

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Sculpture 38,000 BCE – 510 BCE
Selected pre-historic sculptures, Ubaidians, Egypt Early Dynastic,
Egypt New Kingdom and Archaic Period
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page

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Sculpture 500 BCE – 9 BCE
Archaic Period, Classical Greece, Roman Republic
and Hellenistic Greece,
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page