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sculpture

[skuhlp-cher] / ˈskʌlp tʃər /
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form a three-dimensional art object
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The sculpture first appeared in 1982’s “Rocky III,” when the character was world heavyweight champion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Gutierrez said he used artificial intelligence and a 3D model to help design the sculpture.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Some are placed on a sculpture resembling the Rub el Hizb, an Islamic star shaped like an octagram.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

US President Donald Trump has presented Chinese President Xi Jinping with a sculpture of a bald eagle, a bird native to North America and his country's national symbol, during a lavish state dinner in Washington.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Today, those who study Mayan culture are astonished by their art, architecture, sculpture, and painting and their understandings of time and mathematics.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Trained as a forensic pathologist, Ms. Margolles focuses on violence and the forces that drive it in sculptures, photographs and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Following the show — billowing shapes, punk-y hair sculptures, all classically Collina — we walked into a whimsical picnic complete with a margarita fountain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The 46-year-old builds sculptures, art installations, archives and community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The work of artist and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto, the new garden has been expanded to some 60 sculptures while its relationship to the National Mall and to the Hirshhorn Museum’s plaza has been strengthened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

It appears that Gui is trying to sell his chain-saw sculptures to alien tourists.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

In the end, just the building’s sculptured facade, its public face, bulges outward above a glassed-in lobby.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

The idea is that you place your hand inside the mouth of this large sculptured mask, and then let the magic of the Bocca della Verita be your lie detector.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021

He looked at me, his sculptured face expressionless.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

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

With the promise of sculpturing lean, long muscles, his workout has attracted celebrity devotees, including Sofía Vergara and Kim Kardashian.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014

This required detailed sculpturing and structuring to animate properly.

From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2012

He stopped making them in 1959 and didn’t take up sculpturing again until 1976.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2011

E. Ray Lankester suggested that the double plate was borne on the surface of the nidamental gland, with the form and sculpturing of which in Nautilus it closely agrees.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various




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