sculpture

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There are lots of commercially available metallic coatings for your plastic sculpture that will promise you of no breakage etc.

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Quick take

a three-dimensional work of plastic art

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sculpture gathered in one view.

noun

a three-dimensional work of plastic art

noun

creating figures or designs in three dimensions

verb

create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sculpture.

noun

a three-dimensional work of plastic art

noun

creating figures or designs in three dimensions

verb

create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"

verb

shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"

Example sentences

There are lots of commercially available metallic coatings for your plastic sculpture that will promise you of no breakage etc.

Criticizing a game for being cinematic seems as pointless as criticizing a sculpture because it could have been done as a painting.

"Canvas for a new kind of creative expression", "unique technological sculpture", "the cube is community".

By the time of the Alexander Sarcophagus the subtlety of the sculpture has far outstripped the colors identified and applied by Brinkmann.

So the artist sold the sculpture itself to some uncontactable people outside of the country, and suddenly the municipality couldn't just order him to remove it, and so on and so forth.

I wonder how the photographer would feel if the company that manufactured the trumpet played by Miles Davis had claimed that his photograph violated the copyright of their "sculpture" and the tailor Miles got his suit from also protested.

*“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.” -Bertrand Russell

It reminds me of an anecdote from Steven Levy's "In the Plex" on a sneaker wearing gnome that was inexplicably making a mockery of Froogle results:> But one problem was so glaring that the team wasnt comfortable releasing Froogle: when the query running shoes was typed in, the top result was a garden gnome sculpture that happened to be wearing sneakers.