Noun: sculpture skúlp-chu(r)
- A three-dimensional work of plastic art
"The museum's new exhibition featured sculptures from emerging artists"
- Creating figures or designs in three dimensions
"Do you prefer painting or sculpture?";
- carving
- Create by shaping stone, wood or any other hard material
"sculpture a swan out of a block of ice";
- sculpt, sculp
Derived forms: sculptured, sculptures, sculpturing
Type of: art, artistic creation, artistic production, beaux arts, carve, fine arts, forge, form, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], plastic art, shape, solid figure, three-dimensional figure, work
Encyclopedia: Sculpture