Review of Sculpture Concepts and Techniques

A comprehensive set of flashcards covering key concepts related to sculpture, including techniques, materials, and specific art forms.

Sculpture

The art of carving, casting, modeling, or assembling materials into three-dimensional figures.

Relief Sculpture

A sculpture where three-dimensional forms are raised from a flat background.

Freestanding Sculpture

A sculpture that has fronts, sides, backs, and tops, with spaces around the work contributing meaning.

Subtractive Sculpture

A process where unwanted material is removed to create a form, such as carving.

Additive Sculpture

A process where material is added, assembled, or built up to achieve a final form, including modeling, casting, construction, and assemblage.

Carving

The process where the sculptor cuts away portions of a block of material to create the desired form.

Modeling

Shaping pliable materials like clay or wax into three-dimensional forms.

Casting

A process where a liquid material is poured into a mold, hardening into the shape of the mold.

Lost Wax Casting

A technique where a wax model is encased in a mold; the wax is melted away to leave a void for molten metal.

Investiture

A fire-resistant mold formed around a wax model during the lost wax casting process.

Kinetic Sculpture

Sculptures that incorporate actual movement, caused by various forces.

Mixed Media

Works that use a combination of materials and objects not typically considered art elements.

Site-specific Art

Art produced for a particular location, with its content and meaning bound to that site.

Land Art

Site-specific work created in natural surroundings or formed by shaping large amounts of earth.

Ephemeral Art

Works created with the understanding that they will disintegrate or are temporary.

Public Art

Art created for public spaces that engages the community.

Monument

A structure created to preserve the memory of a person or event.