Introduction to sculpture

• Sculpture is a three-dimensional artwork created by shaping hard materials - typically stone such as marble - or metal, glass, or wood. Softer ("plastic") materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals. The term has been extended to works including sound, text and light.

• Sculpture in Round

• Sculpture in Relief

Greek Classical4th BCE

Discus thrower

Sculpture in Round

• Free-standing sculpture, sculpture that is surrounded on all sides, except the base, by space. It is also known as sculpture "in the round",

• One can move around this type of sculpture

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Relief Sculpture

• To create a sculpture in relief is thus to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane

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• Egyptian Sculpture

• 1500 BCE

• Greek Classical

Greek Hellenistic

• Medieval Sculpture

• 13th CE

• Medieval Sculpture

• Renaissance

• Moses Michelangelo

• 15th CE

• Pieta Michelangelo

• 15th CE

• Bernini

• Baroque

• 17th CE

• Ecstasy of St Theresa

• Rodin

• 1901

• Bronze

• Thinker

Henry Moore: 20th CE

Anish Kapoor

Cloud Gate

Cont.

Indian

• Bronze dancing girl

• Indus valley

• 2500 BCE

Indus Valley

Sanchi Stupa 2, 2nd CE

• Gupta Buddha

• 5th CE

Ellora 7th CE

• Pala

• 11th CE

D.P Roychowdry: Triumph of Labor

Ramkinker Baij

• Nagji Patel

Subodh Gupta