Topic outline of sculpture

A sculpture is a human-made three-dimensional art object. Sculpture or sculpting is the activity of creating sculptures. A person who creates sculptures is called a "sculptor".

The following topic outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to sculpture:

Essence of sculpture

form

Types of sculpture

: Bust - Miniature figure - Statue

Styles of sculpture

: In and around - Relief

History of sculpture

Basic sculpture concepts

Armature - Assemblage - Bronze - Bust - Casting - Chisel - Earth art - Environmental sculpture - Found object - Installation art - Kinetic sculpture - Marble - Mass, Volume and void - mobile - model - Readymade - Relief sculpture - Sculpture - Terracotta - The Nude - Patina

Materials used in Sculpture

Traditional Materials

: Wood - Marble - Limestone - Granite - Porphyry - Diorite - Jade - Ivory - Clay - Terra cotta - Bronze - Gold - Silver

Modern Materials

: Steel - Jesmonite - Acrylic - Plastic - Fiberglass - Glass - Aluminum - Fabric

Selected sculptors

Antiquity to the 19th century

* Phidias
* Myron
* Kresilas
* Polykleitos
* Agesander of Rhodes
* Nicola Pisano
* Giovanni Pisano
* Donatello
* Bertoldo di Giovanni
* Domenico Rosselli
* Benedetto da Maiano
* Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli
* Baccio da Montelupo
* Giovanni Francesco Rustici
* Michaelangelo
* Bartolommeo Bandinelli
* Benvenuto Cellini
* Raffaello da Montelupo
* Giambologna
* Gian Lorenzo Bernini
* Antonio Canova

19th to 20th century (Modern)

* Auguste Rodin
* Adolf von Hildebrand
* Antoine Bourdelle
* Aristide Maillol
* François Pompon
* Medardo Rosso
* Ernst Barlach
* Charles Despiau
* Henri Matisse
* Constantin Brancusi
* Julio González
* Jacob Epstein
* Pablo Picasso
* Gaston Lachaise
* Jose de Creeft
* Umberto Boccioni
* Vladimir Tatlin
* Jean/Hans Arp
* Kurt Schwitters
* Naum Gabo
* Frederick John Kiesler
* Jacques Lipchitz
* Max Ernst
*Alexander Rodchenko
* Joan Miró
* Henry Moore
* Alexander Calder
* Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
* Lucio Fontana
* Jean Dubuffet
* Marino Marini
* Alberto Giacometti
* Germaine Richier
* Barbara Hepworth
* Chaim Gross
* Giacomo Manzù
* Isamu Noguchi
* David Smith

Contemporary

* Louise Bourgeois
* James Rosati
* Tony Smith
* César Baldaccini
* Joseph Beuys
* Leonard Baskin
* Beverly Pepper
* Ellsworth Kelly
* Anthony Caro
* Eduardo Chillida
* George Segal
* Jean Tinguely
* Kenneth Snelson
* John Chamberlain
* Donald Judd
* Claes Oldenburg
* Lyman Kipp
* Marisol Escobar
* Robert Morris
* Fernando Botero
* Dan Flavin
* Charles Ginnever
* Mark di Suvero
* William G. Tucker
* Frank Stella
* Eva Hesse
* Isaac Witkin
* Robert Smithson
* Robert H. Hudson
* Richard Serra
* Nancy Graves
* Vito Acconci
* Joel Shapiro
* Barry Flanagan
* Martin Puryear
* Bruce Nauman
* John Raymond Henry
* Michael Heizer
* Rebecca Horn
* Richard Long
* Peter Reginato
* Alice Aycock
* Tony Cragg

External links

* [http://www.thais.it/scultura/default.htm 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (] mostly in Italian)
* [http://www.ilovefiguresculpture.com/masters/maillol/maillol.html Masters of 20th Century Figure Sculpture]

* [http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/sculpture.html Essays on sculpture] from Sweet Briar College, Department of Art History
* [http://www.sculpture.org/ International Sculpture Center]
* [http://the-artists.org/movement/Sculpture.html Sculpture artists] listings from the-artists.org