FUNCTIONS, FEATURES,

MATERIALS
WHAT IS SCULPTURE?

 It is the art of carving

wood, chiseling stone,
casting or welding
metal, modeling clay or
wax into three
dimensional
representations such as
figures, statues, forms,
etc.
TYPES OF SCULPTURE

 The Relief Sculpture

refers to figures which
are attached to flat
background.
 A coin is a good
example is a good
example of this.
TYPES OF SCULPTURE

A Free-Standing
Sculpture is a
figure that can be
seen all sides of it.
 Most common
type.
Functions of Sculpture
 To great extent, religion
has made use of
sculpture.
 Instructional purposes.

 Commemoration of
heroes.
 Minting of coins.
Materials Used in Sculpture
 Marble is a kind of stone
which is durable.
 Bronze is the most common
metal used in sculpture.
 Wood is cheap, available,
and easy to cut.
 Ivory are used for small
carvings like crosses, chess
pieces, and small heads of
small statues of saints.
Materials Used in Sculpture

 Terra cotta means

baked earth.
 In the Philippines,
other media used
are bamboo, adobe,
coral, and plaster.
Gutzon Borglum and
his son, Mount
Rushmore
 Frederic Auguste
Bartholdi’s Statue of
Liberty
Christ the Redeemer
 Daniel Chester
French’s Abraham
Lincoln
The
Thinke
r
Terra Cotta Soldiers
References:

 The Dynamic Teeners of the

21st Century.
 www.wikipedia.org

 www.images.google.com