(n.) The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
(n.) Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.
(v. t.) To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(2) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
(3) The outer coat turned to be extremely sculptured, presenting as interlaced crests of various height.
(4) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(5) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that the variant produced conidia of anomalous size, shape and surface-sculpturing.
(6) Pertinent information concerning impression making, sculpturing, coloring, and processing to insure esthetically and functionally accepted prostheses is presented.
(7) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(8) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
(9) Photographer Jennifer Pattison chose to trace the steps of her own father, who had depression in the past, by photographing objects that he made while rehabilitating, from ceramic pots to sculptures made entirely of feathers.
(10) This paper will give evidence of the exact wounds that Pizarro received in his final sword fight, as well as a facial sculpture of the skull now identified as that of the conqueror of Peru.
(11) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(12) It is the latest in a series of sculpture commissions to occupy the elegant neoclassical galleries, which stretch back 86 metres from the museum's main entrance on the banks of the Thames.
(13) The couple met at Nottingham Polytechnic in 1986, and moved to London in the early Nineties - just as the Young British Artist phenomenon gathered steam and media attention - where Noble studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art .
(14) Fay Ballard in her garden with a sculpture JG Ballard made in the early 1960s.
(15) While she works on them, the sculptures live in rooms like this for weeks until they are ready.
(16) On the contrary, an exquisite haute couture dress - like the ones that Cristóbal Balenciaga created in his 1950s heyday - can look as perfect as a beautiful painting or sculpture.
(17) European paintings and sculptures were regularly presented.
(18) In the African American neighborhood south of the Midway, Gates gutted a string of condemned buildings and then turned them into sculpture, covertly turning his collectors into patrons of urban renewal .
(19) Cleary recounted last week how he and his colleagues instead held their discussions amid the Rodins and Moores in the National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture garden and how he had taken all of the mobile phones from the group and placed them in a bag well away from the discussions.
(20) Long-term correction can be accomplished by sculpturing of the involved cusps.
Sculpturesque
Definition:
(a.) After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.