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Types of Sculpture

Assembling
Assembling

Assemblage is a form of sculpture comprised of "found" objects arranged in such a way that they create a piece. Assemblage is a form of sculpture comprised of "found" objects arranged in such a way that they create a piece.

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Assembling
Assembling

Assemblage is a form of sculpture comprised of "found" objects arranged in such a way that they create a piece. Assemblage is a form of sculpture comprised of "found" objects arranged in such a way that they create a piece.

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Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 189485
Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 189485

Les Bourgeois de Calais is one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin. It commemorates an event stated to have occurred during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, a French port on the English Channel, was under siege by the English for about eleven months.

Bust of Nefertiti, 1345 BC
Bust of Nefertiti, 1345 BC

The Nefertiti Bust is a painted stucco-coated limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. The work is believed to have been crafted in 1345 B.C. by the sculptor Thutmose, because it was found in his workshop in Amarna, Egypt.

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Carving
Carving

Carving, as a means for making sculpture, is distinct from methods using soft and malleable materials like clay, fruit, and melted glass, which may be shaped into the desired forms while soft and then harden into that form.

Casting
Casting

A cast is the positive or reproduction of the original piece of sculpture created by pouring casting material into a pre-formed mold. Some of the most popular materials used for mold making include: plaster (Gypsum), latex rubber, paste maker, moulage, gelatin, white rubber and polymer or chemically activated multiple part mold rubbers. Popular casting materials include: plaster (Gypsum), resin, metal (bronze, aluminum, lead, silver and gold), and casting rubber.

Laocon and His Sons, Second Century BC
Laocon and His Sons, Second Century BC

Laocoön, marble sculpture attributed ... (c. 1st century bc), which shows the priest Laocoon and his sons as they are about to ... of the group Laocoön and His Sons.

Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504
Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504

Michelangelo instead, for the first time ever, chooses to depict David before the battle. David is tense: Michelangelo catches him at the apex of his concentration. He stands relaxed, but alert, resting on a classical pose known as contrapposto.

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Modeling
Modeling

Modeling, also spelled modelling, in sculpture, working of plastic materials by hand to build up form. Clay and wax are the most common modeling materials, and the artist’s hands are the main tools, though metal and wood implements are often employed in shaping.

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Pablo Picasso, Guitar
Pablo Picasso, Guitar

Guitar, 1914 by Pablo Picasso Courtesy of www.PabloPicasso.org To create Guitar Picasso made a radical leap from the sculptural tradition of modeling (carving or molding) to a new technique of assemblage.

Venus of Willendorf, 28,00025,000 BC
Venus of Willendorf, 28,00025,000 BC

The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus figurine estimated to have been made 30,000 BCE. It was found on August 7, 1908 by a workman named Johann Veran or Josef Veram during excavations conducted by archaeologists Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier and Josef Bayer at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the town of Krems.