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sculpture

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

Other spots show the former WWE champion delivering similar messages while hang gliding with a raccoon and pummeling a large rock into a sculpture of his face.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

A giant clay sculpture of Pope Leo XIV's head takes shape in a workshop in Peru's capital, as the Andean nation prepares for the pontiff's visit in November.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

He also presented Xi with a sculpture of a bald eagle, America's national symbol, saying it embodied "the free and soaring spirit of America".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Smaller tunnels branch off the main chamber, like a massive glowing version of Lita’s fire ant colony sculpture.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

His paintings at smoke the moon echo European Impressionism while their frames are ornamented with cast-aluminum sculptures of objects that speak to the artist’s indigenous heritage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

At Huxley-Parlour, SaraNoa Mark’s chunky cast-glass sculptures look like fragments of artifacts from an ancient alien civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Wolfe maintained that he acquired the sculptures legally and regarded them as ritually deactivated or abandoned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The central jade green lake mirrored the arching tiled roofs of the pavilions and the rough beauty of large weathered rock sculptures.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin

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

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

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

His earlocks hung down along the sides of his sculptured face, and his eyes were bright and very blue.

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

“Then we would cut the foam board and build it up,” he said, often sculpturing it to fit the shapes in the painting.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2012

This lab, for ages 5 and older, will include stories about Ganesh, a hunt through the galleries for his likeness and sculpturing his image in clay.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2012

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2011

"Yes, Carez, Andalusian, I believe, to be turned later in England into Carew; and the bas-relief is an excellent bit of sculpturing."

From Fairfax and His Pride by Marie Van Vorst


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