| 单词 | sculpture |
| 释义 | sculpture (once / 388 pages) nv Sculpture is a type of artwork that's two- or three-dimensional, so you can see it from different sides. You can make sculpture from clay, marble, wood, and even mashed potatoes, though the potato kind might not make it into an art museum. From the Latin sculpere "to carve," sculpture often is carved out of a block of wood, stone, or other material. Statues and outdoor artworks are one type of sculpture, and they are freestanding — you can walk around them, under them, or even over them. Other types are carved into walls, with the figures or objects sticking out from a flat surface. Artists called sculptors use soft materials, metal, and even ice and common objects like cars and cans to make sculpture. WORD FAMILYsculpture: sculptural, sculptured, sculpturer, sculptures, sculpturesque, sculpturing+/sculpt: sculpted, sculpting, sculptor, sculpts, sculpture/sculptor: sculptors/sculptural: sculpturally/sculpturesque: sculpturesquely USAGE EXAMPLES“In Cuba, I did sculpture which was figurative.” The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) The Bayer Bee Care Center in Germany includes menacing sculptures of the little pest. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Tippet Rise Art Center is, in short, the world’s largest sculpture park—but it’s also a concert hall, a working ranch, and a wilderness. Slate(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a three-dimensional work of plastic art Exp|Hypo|Hyper Colossus of Rhodes a huge bronze statue of the sun god Helios that was built around 285 BC and that stood beside the harbor entrance on the island of Rhodes for about 50 years before it was toppled by an earthquake Statue of Libertya large monumental statue symbolizing liberty on Liberty Island in New York Bay bronze a sculpture made of bronze busta sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person carvinga sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape marblea sculpture carved from marble mobilesculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents clay sculpture, modeling, mold, molding, mould, mouldingsculpture produced by molding embossment, relief, relievo, rilievo, sculptural reliefsculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background stabilea sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support statuea sculpture representing a human or animal alto relievo, alto rilievo, high reliefa sculptural relief in which forms extend out from the background to at least half their depth bas relief, basso relievo, basso rilievo, low reliefa sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut cinquefoilan ornamental carving consisting of five arcs arranged in a circle glyptic art, glyptographycarvings or engravings (especially on precious stones) herma statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost half-relief, mezzo-relievo, mezzo-rilievoa sculptural relief between low relief and high relief nude, nude sculpture, nude statuea statue of a naked human figure Olympian Zeusa seated statue of the supreme god of ancient Greek mythology created for the temple at Olympia; the statue was 40 feet tall and rested on a base that was 12 feet high scrimshawa carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers sphinxone of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians term, terminal figure, terminus(architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome vermiculationa decoration consisting of wormlike carvings woodcarvinga carving created by carving wood plastic art the arts of shaping or modeling; carving and sculpture solid figure, three-dimensional figurea three-dimensional shape 2n creating figures or designs in three dimensions Syn|Hypo|Hyper carving modeling, modelling, molding, moulding a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied art, artistic creation, artistic production the creation of beautiful or significant things beaux arts, fine artsthe study and creation of visual works of art 3v create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material Syn|Hyper sculpt grave, sculpt shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work make something, usually for a specific function 4v shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it Syn|Hyper grave, sculpt sculpt create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material carve form by carving |
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