sculpture
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Ernetti produced an image he believed was akin to the Christ he witnessed, which was soon debunked as a close-up photograph of a wooden sculpture.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
A joint exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts highlights the rich history of American painting, sculpture, design and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
There sits the studio, an austere black cube jutting into the countryside, guarded by a giant sculpture of a gorilla.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
A giant guitar sculpture dominates the central square, guitar murals adorn walls and pavements and even the rubbish bins are shaped like guitars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
We learned to forge Mami's signature and went just about everywhere, to dance weekends and football weekends and snow sculpture weekends.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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It also houses around 40 sculptures as well as photographs that belonged to his family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
There is also a smattering of sculptures, including a joyful mother and child by Fernando Botero and a series of full-scale creations featuring some of “Star Wars” most beloved characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
It also includes several sculptures by him, as well as objects and furniture that belonged to the painter, such as his easel and wheelchair.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Her trademark polka dots covered entire galleries and giant sculptures, and she also used mirrors and lights to create the effect of shapes and patterns disappearing into infinity.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
“My mother has been learning how to make clay pots since she retired from her neuroscience work. The metallic sculptures are my father’s, welded together with leftover computer parts from his repair shop.”
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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Price was best known for his sculptured silhouettes and theatrical styles, including pastel suits which featured in rock band Duran Duran's music video Rio.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
Her award-winning face, statuesque figure and sculptured features made her blend in with the younger cohort onstage.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 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
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
Already he knew enough to tell if Michelangelo had sculptured the little angel.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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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
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
After two years of intense production, sculpturing the work in public was “the fun part,” she added.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2013
It can range from painting or sculpturing to commissioning manufactured items like the sets of boxlike aluminum and plexiglass units to which Donald Judd gave no title.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2011
The sculpturing of this plain, which, with some interruption, has continued to the present day, has given the region the chief elements of its present topography.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Wallace W. Atwood
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