sculpture

sculpture
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Art of carving or sculpting
Nouns
1. sculpture, sculpting, sandblasting; plastic arts; [stone or wood] carving; installation.
2. statuary, statue, colossal; statuette, bust, head (see representation); cast (see form); relief, relievo; high or low relief, bas relief, mezzo-relievo; intaglio, cameo; anaglyph; medal, medallion; akrolith, anaglyph, assemblage, collage; ice sculpture; mobile, stabile; totem; video sculpture.
3. (sculpture tools, techniques, and materials)
a. matrix; marble, grounding, dead stone, alabaster, soapstone; terra-cotta, clay; ceramics, ceramic ware, pottery, porcelain, china, earthenware; acrylic resin, Plasticine; bronze, electrum, niello; damascene.
b. boucharde, chisel, file, gouge, gradine, hammer, lathe, mallet, peen, pick, pointing device, rasp, sander.
c. casing, casting; cire perdu, lost-wax process, moulage, mantle, maquette, piece mold.
4. sculptor, sculptress, carver, chiseler, modeler. See artist, engraving.
Verbs — sculpture, carve, grave, chase, cut, emboss, chisel, model, form, mould, turn; fabricate; cast; anodize, charge, chase, galvanize, temper.
Adjectives — sculptured; carven, graven; in relief; ceramic, marble, marmoreal, anaglyptic, plastic.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The art of sculpting]
Syn. carving, modeling, carving in stone, modeling in clay, kinetic sculpture, op art, casting in bronze, woodcutting, stone carving, plastic art; see also art 2 , image 2 .
2. [A scuplted work]
Syn. statue, statuette, figure, figurine, carving, model, relief, bas-relief, marble, stone carving, woodcarving, bronze, bust.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
1. statue statuary, bust, figure, figurine, bronze, carving, abstract.
2. carving chiseling, molding, stonecutting. ''An art that takes away superfluous material.''—Michelangelo. ''Mud pies which endure.''— Cyril Connolly.
WORD FIND
• bizarre human or animal figure: grotesque
• chip off stone: stun
• frame, framework: armature, butterfly
• Greek statue of marble: acrolith
• larger than life-size sculpture: heroic, colossal
• low relief: bas-relief
• medium: marble, clay, bronze
• projection: relief
• smaller than life-size sculpture: statuette
• tool: bushhammer, calipers, mallet, rasp
• trim: fettle

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