Meaning of "sculpture" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SCULPTURE

From Latin sculptūra a carving.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SCULPTURE

sculpture  [ˈskʌlptʃə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCULPTURE

Sculpture is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb sculpture in English.

WHAT DOES SCULPTURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions and one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving and modelling, in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since modernism, shifts in sculptural process led to 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 in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost. Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.

Definition of sculpture in the English dictionary

The first definition of sculpture in the dictionary is the art of making figures or designs in relief or the round by carving wood, moulding plaster, etc, or casting metals, etc. Other definition of sculpture is works or a work made in this way. Sculpture is also ridges or indentations as on a shell, formed by natural processes.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SCULPTURE

PRESENT

Present

I sculpture

you sculpture

he/she/it sculptures

we sculpture

you sculpture

they sculpture

Present continuous

I am sculpturing

you are sculpturing

he/she/it is sculpturing

we are sculpturing

you are sculpturing

they are sculpturing

Present perfect

I have sculptured

you have sculptured

he/she/it has sculptured

we have sculptured

you have sculptured

they have sculptured

Present perfect continuous

I have been sculpturing

you have been sculpturing

he/she/it has been sculpturing

we have been sculpturing

you have been sculpturing

they have been sculpturing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I sculptured

you sculptured

he/she/it sculptured

we sculptured

you sculptured

they sculptured

Past continuous

I was sculpturing

you were sculpturing

he/she/it was sculpturing

we were sculpturing

you were sculpturing

they were sculpturing

Past perfect

I had sculptured

you had sculptured

he/she/it had sculptured

we had sculptured

you had sculptured

they had sculptured

Past perfect continuous

I had been sculpturing

you had been sculpturing

he/she/it had been sculpturing

we had been sculpturing

you had been sculpturing

they had been sculpturing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will sculpture

you will sculpture

he/she/it will sculpture

we will sculpture

you will sculpture

they will sculpture

Future continuous

I will be sculpturing

you will be sculpturing

he/she/it will be sculpturing

we will be sculpturing

you will be sculpturing

they will be sculpturing

Future perfect

I will have sculptured

you will have sculptured

he/she/it will have sculptured

we will have sculptured

you will have sculptured

they will have sculptured

Future perfect continuous

I will have been sculpturing

you will have been sculpturing

he/she/it will have been sculpturing

we will have been sculpturing

you will have been sculpturing

they will have been sculpturing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would sculpture

you would sculpture

he/she/it would sculpture

we would sculpture

you would sculpture

they would sculpture

Conditional continuous

I would be sculpturing

you would be sculpturing

he/she/it would be sculpturing

we would be sculpturing

you would be sculpturing

they would be sculpturing

Conditional perfect

I would have sculpture

you would have sculpture

he/she/it would have sculpture

we would have sculpture

you would have sculpture

they would have sculpture

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been sculpturing

you would have been sculpturing

he/she/it would have been sculpturing

we would have been sculpturing

you would have been sculpturing

they would have been sculpturing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you sculpture
we let´s sculpture
you sculpture

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to sculpture

Past participle

sculptured

Present Participle

sculpturing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SCULPTURE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sculpture» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of sculpture

bust · carve · chisel · cut · effigy · fashion · figure · figurine · form · hew · model · mould · sculp · sculpt · shape · statue · statuette

TRANSLATION OF SCULPTURE

Find out the translation of sculpture to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sculpture from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sculpture» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 雕塑
• Translator English - Spanish: escultura
• English: sculpture
• Translator English - Hindi: मूर्तिकला
• Translator English - Arabic: فَنُّ النَحْت
• Translator English - Russian: скульптура
• Translator English - Portuguese: escultura
• Translator English - Bengali: ভাস্কর্য
• Translator English - French: sculpture
• Translator English - Malay: Arca
• Translator English - German: Skulptur
• Translator English - Japanese: 彫刻
• Translator English - Korean: 조각술
• Translator English - Javanese: Patung
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tác phẩm điêu khắc
• Translator English - Tamil: சிற்பம்
• Translator English - Marathi: शिल्पकला
• Translator English - Turkish: heykel
• Translator English - Italian: scultura
• Translator English - Polish: rzeźba
• Translator English - Ukrainian: скульптура
• Translator English - Romanian: sculptură
• Translator English - Greek: γλυπτό
• Translator English - Afrikaans: beeldhouwerk
• Translator English - Swedish: skulptur
• Translator English - Norwegian: skulptur

10 QUOTES WITH «SCULPTURE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sculpture.

1

Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

2

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

3

David Bailey

The skull is nature's sculpture.

4

Roy Blount, Jr.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

5

Constantin Brancusi

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

6

David Josiah Brewer

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

7

Cathy Marie Buchanan

I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

8

Cathy Marie Buchanan

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn.

9

Basil Bunting

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

10

Alexander Calder

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCULPTURE»

Discover the use of sculpture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sculpture and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Sculpture: Principles and Practice

Offers advice on using tools and constructing armatures as well as shaping human figures, portrait heads, and bas reliefs from clay, plaster, wood, stone, and metal

Louis Slobodkin, 1973

Sculpture: Three Dimensions in Art

Looks at different types of sculpture, explains how sculptures are made, and shows examples of sculptures created from various materials.

Anne Civardi, 2005

Passages in Modern Sculpture

The text is rigorously formalistic and analytical and organized around specific sculptural considerations such as the treatment of narrative time, the handling of space, and the game strategies of surrealist sculpture.

Rosalind E. Krauss, 1981

Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from ...

In this landmark essay, Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources—from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible—to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture.

Johann Gottfried Herder, Jason Gaiger, 2002

Sculpture and Enlightenment

This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France.

Erika Naginski, 2009

Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens

With more than 700 photographs, this is a stunning visual record of art from the ancient world.

Nikolaos Kaltsas, 2002

Sculpture

Mega Square Sculpture spans over 23,000 years and over 120 examples of the most beautiful sculptures in the world: from prehistoric art and Egyptian statues to the works of Michelangelo, Henry Moore and Niki de Saint-Phalle.

Victoria Charles, 2011

Hellenistic Sculpture: The styles of ca. 100-31 B.C

This is the final volume in Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway's series of books covering the entire range of Greek sculpture, from its inception to its virtual end as it merged into the production of the Roman Imperial world.

Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, 2002

Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture

From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity --among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, ...

Ian Jenkins, 2006

The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today

Photographs reproduced in this richly illustrated volume range in subject from inanimate objects to performing bodies, and include major works by mediums most influential artists, from early modernism to the present.

Roxana Marcoci, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCULPTURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sculpture is used in the context of the following news items.

Workers clean up, repair Joe Louis 'Fist' sculpture

Photo by Maria Esquinca Erik Locker, employee of Precision Installations and Services Inc., holds "The Fist" while the cables that sustain it are being replaced. «Crain's Detroit Business, Jun 15»

Seward Johnson's sculptures take over NYC pedestrian plaza

Seward Johnson's life-like and life-size sculptures of iconic figures like Marilyn Monroe and ordinary people doing everyday things are making an appearance ... «Yahoo News UK, Jun 15»

Anish Kapoor 'vagina' sculpture vandalised

Vandals have sprayed-painted a controversial Anish Kapoor sculpture on display in the gardens of France's Palace of Versailles. The 60-metre steel tube was ... «BBC News, Jun 15»

Art installation for outdoor sculpture event dismantled and thrown in …

A maintenance worker used a hammer to take down a bench art installation assuming that it was not allowed on the plaza. He threw the piece in a dumpster. «The Guardian, Jun 15»

Artist doesn't see why his 'vagina' sculpture at Versailles is a problem

The Palace of Versailles, the opulent home of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, now houses a sculpture that has been deemed by some as offensive. «Washington Post, Jun 15»

Giacometti Sculpture Sells for $141.3 Million at Christie's

Alberto Giacometti's human-scale bronze sculpture of a pointing man sold for $141.3 million. Source: Christie's Images/Alberto Giacometti Estate/VAGA and ARS ... «Bloomberg, May 15»

Go inside Chris Burden's kinetic sculpture 'Metropolis II'

Chris Burden's sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Metropolis II," is one giant sensory overload — bright cars whiz past on an oversized Hot ... «89.3 KPCC, May 15»

Cleveland Museum of Art returns Hanuman sculpture to Cambodia …

A favorite with generations of schoolchildren who imitated its distinctive, kneeling pose during tours with docents, the sculpture has been on nearly constant ... «cleveland.com, May 15»

Floating sculpture rises over the Greenway

Is it a giant jellyfish? A spaceship? An outsized butterfly net? Whatever it is, Brookline artist Janet Echelman's light-as-air sculpture, which turned heads as it ... «Boston Globe, May 15»

Giacometti sculpture expected to sell for auction-record $130M

While Giacometti's sculptures look to the uninitiated like tall, rough stick figures from second-grade art classes, they are considered masterpieces and even ... «New York Post, Apr 15»