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Missing image Greekgod.jpg Western sculpture was first perfected in Greece Sculpture is any three-dimensional form created as an artistic expression. Sculpting is the art of assembling or shaping an object. It may be of any size and of any suitable material. The artist who does this is called a sculptor.
Traditional materials
Contemporary materialsIn his late writings, Joan Miró even proposed that some day sculptures might be made of gases; see gas sculpture. Other materials used in modern and contemporary sculpture include:
Perhaps the least elitist of these media is sand, as it is used by young and old to create sand castles.
FormsSome of the forms of sculpture are:
Perhaps the majority of public art is sculpture. See also sculpture garden. SculptorsSculptors include the Classical Greek masters, through Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance masters, to modern sculptors such as Henry Moore, Felix de Weldon and Alexander Ney.
Greenfield Products Pty Ltd v. Rover-Scott Bonnar LtdThe Australian copyright case of Greenfield Products Pty Ltd v. Rover-Scott Bonnar Ltd (1990) 17 IPR 417 is authority for the proposition that a thing not intended to be a sculpture is not a sculpture. This seems contrary to some famous examples of sculpture, including Marcel Duchamp's 1917 sculpture consisting of a porcelain urinal lying on its back, entitled "Fountain", and Carl Andre's sculpture "Equivalent III" exhibited in the Tate Gallery in 1978, consisting of bricks stacked in a rectangle. NudityTraditional sculpting materials are:Nude sculptures are more common and accepted than public nudity of real people.  Related topics
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