Synonyms:
sculpture
Meaning: a three-dimensional work of plastic art
Synonyms:
sculpture, carving
Meaning: creating figures or designs in three dimensions
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
sculpt, sculpture
Meaning: create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"
Usage examples
They are the men whose praises are celebrated in poetry, who are honored by sculpture and received with triumphant jubilations.
It was an elegant mansion of gray stone furnished like a palace, every corner of it warm with the luxury of paintings, sculpture, art and modern refinement.
The colours do not appear in most cases to be of any use as a protection; they are probably the direct result, as in the lowest classes, of the nature of the tissues; the patterns and the sculpture of the shell depending on its manner of growth.
This book tries to find that fourth dimension of architecture, painting, and sculpture, which is the human soul in action, that arrow with wings which is the flash of fire from the film, or the heart of man, or Pygmalion's image, when it becomes a woman.
While there is a great deal of literary reference in all the following argument, I realize, looking back over many attempts to paraphrase it for various audiences, that its appeal is to those who spend the best part of their student life in classifying, and judging, and producing works of sculpture, painting, and architecture.