Sculpture

Think, for example, of two teapots. The first one is decorated with stems of rose?s and leaves. It is also perfectly functional; the handle and spout have been balanced and constructed, along with the body and lid of the teapot, for optimal use. This, therefore, would be a functional object, which may have had artistic additions or attention. The second teapot is shaped completely as a rose itself. The main body of the teapot is a rose flower, the spout is a rosebud extending out on a narrow stem and the handle is a complete leaf, perpindicular to the rose, opposite and in the same plane as the rosebud spout. The teapot does not effectively serve tea; the handle is delicate and the spout is not hollow. It is a sculpture of a teapot.

Some of the forms of sculpture are:

• Relief? - sculpture still attached to a background, standing out from that ground in "High Relief" or "Low Relief" (bas-relief)
• Free-standing sculpture
• Mobile? (See also Calder?'s Stabiles.)
• Statue?
• Bust?

Sculpting is the art of assembling or shaping an object. It may be of any size and of an almost infinite number of materials. Traditional sculpting materials are: stone (e.g. marble, limestone, granite), clay (e.g. porcelin, terra-cotta), metal (e.g. bronze, iron, aluminum), and wood. Modern? and Contemporary materials include the environment, textiles, glass, sand?, water, liquid crystals, many other man-made materials, as well as any found-objects.

Famous sculptors

• Pheidias?
• Claus Sluter
• Michelangelo Buonarotti
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini
• Antonio Canova
• Auguste Rodin
• Aristide Maillol
• Per Hasselberg
• [Alberto Giacometti]?
• Marino Marini
• Constantin Brancusi
• Henry Moore

External links:

• http://www.sculptor.org

Unique mediums: (Sand)

• http://www.teamsandtastic.com