sculptor

/ˈskʌlptər/

/ˈskʌlptə/

Other forms: sculptors

An artist who creates three-dimensional works of art is a sculptor. Some sculptors carve designs out of a piece of wood or stone, while others weld slabs of metal together to create their masterpieces.

The thing distinguishing a sculptor from other artists is that their work can be viewed from many different sides, instead of being a relatively flat painting or collage. Sculptors today work in just about any medium you can imagine, including clay, fabric, metal, bone, plastic — even sand and ice. Ancient Greek and Roman sculptors created lifelike figures from marble and bronze, some of which you can still see in museums today. The Latin root of sculpture means "to carve."

Definitions of sculptor

1. noun

   an artist who creates sculptures
   synonyms: carver, sculpturer, statue maker

   examples:

   Praxiteles

   ancient Greek sculptor (circa 370-330 BC)

   Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

   French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty now in New York harbor

   Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini

   Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680)

   Constantin Brancusi

   Romanian sculptor noted for abstractions of animal forms (1876-1957)

   Alexander Calder

   United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)

   Benvenuto Cellini

   Italian sculptor (1500-1571)

   Thomas Crawford

   United States neoclassical sculptor (1814-1857)

   Donato di Betto Bardi

   Florentine sculptor famous for his lifelike sculptures (1386-1466)

   Sir Jacob Epstein

   British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959)

   Daniel Chester French

   United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931)

   Alberto Giacometti

   Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966)

   Dame Barbara Hepworth

   British sculptor (1902-1975)

   Malvina Hoffman

   United States sculptor (1887-1966)

   Gaston Lachaise

   United States sculptor (born in France) noted for his large nude figures (1882-1935)

   Leonardo da Vinci

   Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)

   Maya Lin

   United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)

   Jacques Lipchitz

   United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973)

   Lysippus

   Greek sculptor (4th century BC)

   Aristide Maillol

   French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944)

   Michelangelo Buonarroti

   Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564)

   Amedeo Modigliano

   Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920)

   Henry Spencer Moore

   British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)

   Louise Nevelson

   United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988)

   Isamu Noguchi

   United States sculptor (1904-1988)

   Claes Thure Oldenburg

   United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929)

   Pheidias

   ancient Greek sculptor (circa 500-432 BC)

   Pablo Picasso

   prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973)

   Francois Auguste Rene Rodin

   French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917)

   George Segal

   United States sculptor (born in 1924)

   David Roland Smith

   United States sculptor (1906-1965)

   Lorado Taft

   United States sculptor (1860-1936)

   types:

   sculptress

   a woman sculptor

   type of:

   artist, creative person

   a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination