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sculpture

[skuhlp-cher] / ˈskʌlp tʃər /
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form a three-dimensional art object
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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

Before unveiling the sculpture, he watched the pupils perform the Aberfan Song and well-known children's song Everyone Belongs.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

His unconventional ceramics, like his painting, tend to be massively scaled and edge closer to sculpture than functional objects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The sculpture first appeared in 1982’s “Rocky III,” when the character was world heavyweight champion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Free-standing sculpture—that is, sculpture that is carved or modeled fully in the round—is made by either of two methods.

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

Mr. Dalvit has been focusing attention on the Frick’s bronzes since joining the staff five years ago, first in the gallery of intimate sculptures at Frick Madison.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The clay, ceramic and metal sculptures look like munitions and rockets; one features a red handprint that symbolizes blood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Elizabeth Catlett’s trio of wooden sculptures is another instance of art as social commentary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Paintings, sculptures, ceramics and books line every available wall, shelf and tabletop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Uffizi staff rushed to move busts and sculptures before they were trampled.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

The new Mustang’s exterior has a familiar but more sculptured and modern design.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

On the other side of the fireplace sits the reconfigured lounge, which includes a sofa and an accent wall rendered in abstract, sculptured wood.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022

I could see the earlocks hanging down alongside his sculptured face and the fringes outside the trousers below the jacket.

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

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

The Weinstein Company is set to release “Butter,” in which Jennifer Garner plays an ambitious conservative who gets caught up in the world of competitive butter sculpturing, on Oct.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2012

Norma Lyon, a self-described dairy farmer’s wife and mother of nine who achieved fame well beyond the Midwest as the “butter-cow lady” of the Iowa State Fair, sculpturing tons of U.S.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2011

We'd picked Jupiter's third moon because its frozen atmosphere permitted some eerie pseudo-ice sculpturing.

From Question of Comfort by Les Collins


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