Outline of sculpture

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

A sculpture – human-made three-dimensional art object.

Sculpture or sculpting – activity of creating sculptures. A person who creates sculptures is called a sculptor.

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 Arts similar to sculpture 7 See also 8 External links

Types of sculpture

• Bust –
• Miniature figure –
• Statue –
• Architectural sculpture –

Styles of sculpture

• Detonography –
• Relief –

History of sculpture

General sculpture concepts

• Armature –
• Assemblage –
• Bronze –
• Bust –
• Casting –
• Chisel –
• Earth art –
• Environmental sculpture –
• Found object –
• Installation art –
• Kinetic sculpture –
• Marble –
• Mass –
• Volume –
• Void –
• Mobile –
• Model –
• Nude –
• Readymade –
• Relief sculpture –
• Sculpture –
• Terracotta –
• Patina –

Materials used in Sculpture

Traditional Materials

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

Modern Materials

• Steel –
• Jesmonite –
• Acrylic –
• Concrete
• Plastic –
• Fiberglass –
• Glass –
• Aluminum –
• Fabric –

Selected sculptors

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 –

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 Brâncuşi –
• 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 –
• Isamu Noguchi –
• David Smith –
• Pablo Serrano –
• Giacomo Manzù –

Contemporary

• Louise Bourgeois –
• Tony Rosenthal –
• James Rosati –
• Tony Smith –
• César Baldaccini –
• Joseph Beuys –
• Leonard Baskin –
• Beverly Pepper –
• Ellsworth Kelly –
• Anthony Caro –
• Eduardo Chillida –
• George Segal –
• Jean Tinguely –
• Kenneth Snelson –
• Niki de Saint Phalle –
• John Chamberlain –
• Donald Judd –
• Claes Oldenburg –
• Nam June Paik –
• Wolf Vostell –
• 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 –
• Bill Barrett –

Arts similar to sculpture

• Bone carving –
• Collage –
• Costuming –
• Doll making –
• Dynamic textures –
• Earth Art –
• Floral design –
  • Ikebana –
• Glassblowing –
• Hologram –
• Ice carving –
• Ivory carving –
• Mask –
• Mosaics –
• Origami –
• Pottery –
• Pumpkin carving –
• Sand sculpture –
• Sugar sculpture –
• Wood carving –
• Wrought iron –

See also

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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