Sculpture Vocabulary abstract: art in which the depiction of real objects nature is subordinated or entirely discarded additive: made by building up planes and or surfaces armature: framework used to support material being modeled in sculpture. assemblage: art composed of objects, parts of objects, or materials intended for other purpose base: the portion of the work on which the sculpture sits bust: portrait person that includes head, neck, and part of the shoulders and breast carving: creating sculpture by carving, chipping, or hewing wood or stone. casting: making forms by pouring a fluid substance such as molten metal, liquid plaster, or plastic into a mold. chisel: sculptural tool used in the subtractive process composition: plan, placement or arrangements of the elements in a work of art concave: surfaces that are hollow or curved inward conceptual: art in which the development of the artist’s conception is more important than the actual product construction: sculpture built by connecting several or many parts to each other convex: surfaces that curve outward craftsmanship: skill with which the artist uses tools and materials elements of three-‐dimensional form: shape, value, space, texture, color, line, time environmental art: art that is part of an environment, by surrounding it, creating a enclosed environment, allowing viewers to walk through or around figurative: portraying the human or animal figure found art: art composed out of items not originally intended for art free-‐standing: intended to be viewed from all sides in-‐the-‐round: meant to be viewed from all sides installation: the way a work is placed in a location
kinetic: containing moving elements which can be set in motion lost-‐wax process A method of casting in which a mold is lined in wax, filled with a solid core of heat resistant material (vestment), and heated to melt the wax leaving a thin cavity between mold and core into which metal is poured. manipulation: to shape using hands marquette: small model of a larger sculpture mass A solid 3-‐d form like a brick mixed media: when two or more media/materials are used in a single work of art mobile: a three-‐dimensional, moving sculpture that hangs from the ceiling mold: negative hollow form modeling: shaping a pliable material negative space: space not occupied by object or figure but in and around it organic: of an irregular shape, like one naturally found positive space: area of space occupied by forms-‐-‐the sculpture itself portrait: comprising of head or head and neck realistic: portraying real life objects, people or identifiable shapes relief: sculpture in which forms project from a background, often classified by degree in which it is raised from surface; high relief, low relief, etc. replica: exact copy or reproduction of another work representation: to stand for, symbolize, depict scumble: lay light, semi-‐transparent color on a surface already painted statue: carved, modeled, three-‐dimensional figure, usually representing a person or animal subtractive: sulpture made by removing material. three-‐dimensional: having height, width, and depth void: opening, gap, hole, or empty space volume: area defined by a sculpture