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sculpture

[skuhlp-cher] / ˈskʌlp tʃər /
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form a three-dimensional art object
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But the instant we step into the gallery with its 84 objects—furniture and sculpture, industrial design and graphic art—we sense that they somehow belong together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

A 2,000-year-old sculpture sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $34.3 million, after a bidding war to set a record for a Roman antiquity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

He pioneered the technique of glazed terracotta, producing reliefs featuring white figures set against blue backdrops whose lustrous surfaces and rich hues gave color a new role in sculpture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The sign jokes that the sculpture is the "world's most famous singing bird automata!"

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

For that reason, our discussion is merged with an introduction to four major arts: graphic arts, painting, sculpture, and architecture.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

But he was also responsible for a number of other notable public sculptures in France and the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

He was also known for his metal cube sculptures, which have been called quilt-like.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Medals, reliefs, funerary monuments, large and small figure sculptures, plus a few utilitarian objects, offer a capsule history of modeling and casting in the Tuscan city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The New York museum stages a compact show dedicated to the Della Robbia family’s glazed terracotta sculptures, which turned clay into a medium of high art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Snow-covered fir trees grow straight up out of the floor and huge ice sculptures of dancing penguins and laughing polar bears fill up the spaces between the candlelit tables.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

In “An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles,” authors David Gebhard and Robert Winter suggest that the ornate ends of the bridge “cry out for sculptured saints.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Coming upon the sculptured, skeletal, bemused-looking goat in 1952’s “La Chèvre,” around the corner, may lead you to hope that wisdom sometimes comes with age.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Natalie Tanner was one of the first people to move into the development, and said she was promised sculptured gardens, which are yet to materialise.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2023

Ingrid Simmel, who was on a day trip to buy a wood-carved sculptured of Jesus Christ as a newborn in his crib, said she was worried but not surprised about the retired pope’s worsening health.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

Water in the fountain is sprayed from dolphins sculptured in bronze.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

A busboy is embraced by the beatnik art community when he develops an impressive but morbid method of sculpturing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2019

It was at college where she first started experimenting with clay, silicon sealants and other materials for sculpturing.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2016

She started by sculpturing sandstone rock formations, to which she recently began applying a series of red and brown washes.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2013

And indeed there was a time when sculpturing a star’s hair into the perfect beach wave or contouring winglike cheekbones was a prized job.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2013

Miss Pat will go to the sculpturing as usual, but may have a hand in any game here that she is able to hold up.

From Miss Pat at School by Pemberton Ginther


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