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1 '''Sculpture''' is any three-dimensional form created as an artistic expression.
2 ''Sculpting'' is the [[art]] of assembling or shaping an object. It may be of any size and of any suitable material. Traditional sculpting materials are: stone (e.g. marble, limestone, granite), clay (e.g. porcelain, terracotta), metal (e.g. bronze, iron, [[aluminum]]), and [[wood,as a medium|wood]]. [[modern art|Modern]] and Contemporary materials include the environment, textiles, [[glass]], [[sand]], water, liquid crystals, many other man-made materials, as well as any found-objects. (In his late writings [[Joan Miro]] even proposed that some day sculptures might be made of gases (see [[gas sculpture]]).)
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4 Some of the forms of sculpture are:
5 *[[Relief]] - sculpture still attached to a background, standing out from that ground in "High Relief" or "Low Relief" (bas-relief)
6 *Free-standing sculpture
7 *[[Mobile]] (See also [[Alexander Calder|Calder]]'s Stabiles.)
8 *[[Statue]]
9 *[[Bust]]
10 *[[Site-Specific]]
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12 [[Famous Sculptors]]
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14 '''External links:'''
15 *http://www.sculptor.org
16 *http://www.sculpture.org
17 * Unique mediums: (Sand) http://www.teamsandtastic.com
18 * http://www.greenmuseum.org The online museum of environmental art.