Outline of sculpture

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A sculpture is a human-made three-dimensional art object. Sculpture or sculpting is the activity of creating sculptures. A person who creates sculptures is called a sculptor.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sculpture:

Contents 1 Types of sculpture 1.1 Styles of sculpture 2 History of sculpture 3 General sculpture concepts 4 Materials used in Sculpture 4.1 Traditional Materials 4.2 Modern Materials 5 Selected sculptors 5.1 Antiquity to the 19th century 5.2 19th to 20th century (Modern) 5.3 Contemporary 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Types of sculpture

Bust - Miniature figure - Statue - architectural sculpture

[edit] Styles of sculpture

In and around - Relief

[edit] History of sculpture

[edit] General sculpture concepts

Armature - Assemblage - Bronze - Bust - Casting - Chisel - Earth art - Environmental sculpture - Found object - Installation art - Kinetic sculpture - Marble - Mass, Volume and void - mobile - model - Readymade - Relief sculpture - Sculpture - Terracotta - The Nude - Patina

[edit] Materials used in Sculpture

[edit] Traditional Materials

Wood - Marble - Limestone - Granite - Porphyry - Diorite - Jade - Ivory - Clay - Terracotta - Bronze - Gold - Silver

[edit] Modern Materials

Steel - Jesmonite - Acrylic - Plastic - Fiberglass - Glass - Aluminum - Fabric

[edit] Selected sculptors

[edit] Antiquity to the 19th century

Phidias Myron Kresilas Polykleitos Agesander of Rhodes Nicola Pisano Giovanni Pisano Donatello Bertoldo di Giovanni Domenico Rosselli Benedetto da Maiano

Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli Baccio da Montelupo Giovanni Francesco Rustici Michelangelo Bartolommeo Bandinelli Benvenuto Cellini Raffaello da Montelupo Giambologna Gian Lorenzo Bernini Antonio Canova Jean-Antoine Houdon

[edit] 19th to 20th century (Modern)

Auguste Rodin Adolf von Hildebrand Antoine Bourdelle Aristide Maillol François Pompon Medardo Rosso Ernst Barlach Charles Despiau Henri Matisse Constantin Brancusi Julio González Jacob Epstein Pablo Picasso

Gaston Lachaise Jose de Creeft Umberto Boccioni Vladimir Tatlin Jean/Hans Arp Kurt Schwitters Naum Gabo Frederick John Kiesler Jacques Lipchitz Max Ernst Alexander Rodchenko Joan Miró Henry Moore

Alexander Calder Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Lucio Fontana Jean Dubuffet Marino Marini Alberto Giacometti Germaine Richier Barbara Hepworth Chaim Gross Giacomo Manzù Isamu Noguchi David Smith

[edit] Contemporary

Louise Bourgeois James Rosati Tony Smith César Baldaccini Joseph Beuys Leonard Baskin Beverly Pepper Ellsworth Kelly Anthony Caro Eduardo Chillida George Segal Jean Tinguely Kenneth Snelson John Chamberlain

Donald Judd Claes Oldenburg Clement Meadmore Lyman Kipp Marisol Escobar Robert Morris Fernando Botero Dan Flavin Charles Ginnever Mark di Suvero William G. Tucker Frank Stella Eva Hesse Isaac Witkin Robert Smithson

Robert H. Hudson Richard Serra Nancy Graves Vito Acconci Joel Shapiro Barry Flanagan Martin Puryear Bruce Nauman John Raymond Henry Michael Heizer Rebecca Horn Richard Long Peter Reginato Alice Aycock Tony Cragg

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

• 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
• Masters of 20th Century Figure Sculpture

• Essays on sculpture from Sweet Briar College, Department of Art History
• International Sculpture Center
• Sculpture artists listings from the-artists.org

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