Traditionally, sculptures are carved from some sort of stone (like granite, limestone, marble, etc.) or a cast metal which is usually brass or bronze. A work of art made from any material could technically be called a sculpture, though, even if it is made from something completely non traditional like bubble gum or paper clips for example.

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forms usually are either organic or geometric. Organic shapes resemble shapes usually met in nature; the gentle curve of a tree branch, the floral or a rock for example.

Geometric shapes are easy to draw and measure with rulers and other devices. Usual geometric shapes are symmetric like circle, square, triangle, cross... for example. Geometric shapes can also be asymmetric.

James Shields, born in Ireland, US Senator from Missouri, Minnesota and Illinois and BGen., USArmy and Frances Willard, Suffragist, temperance reformer and educator.

Alexander Calder was a very prolific artist and worked in many medias. He is most well known for his kinetic hanging mobiles, an art-form that he created. His mobiles were typically constructed of aluminum sheet metal, steel wire, and paint. His mobiles were most often constructed using mechanical fastening methods such as crimping and riveting rather than brazing or welding. He also created larger stationary sculptures called "stabiles" which were made of thick metal plate which was riveted or welded, and then painted - usually in flat black or the iconic reddish orange such as the Flamingo sculpture in Chicago.

Calder also enjoyed painting with gouache, which is similar to a watercolor paint media, and doing line drawings in ink. Calder also did wood free-carving, sculpture from found objects, wire sculpture, casting, jewelry making in gold and silver, and kinetic sculpture with mechanical mechanisms. Calder even used mercury in a kinetic fountain that he created for the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris. Credited with producing over 16,000 works in his life, it would be difficult to find a media that Calder did not experiment with.


Related Links:
http://www.calder.org/
http://www.the-mobile-factory.com/alexander_calder_trivia.html

Carving

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No. The statue of liberty has a steel superstructure and a skin of copper with bronze accents.

It was built in France, then shipped to the US in pieces, then assembled just in time for the world fair in New York.

Jerusalem, Israel, Northern Hemisphere, The World, The Solar System, The Milkyway Galaxy, The Massive Galaxy

The statues are the Contemplation of Justice (female) and the Authority of Law (male), designed and sculpted by James Earle Fraser.

modelling

A sculpture that is not a solid mass is considered open form sculpture. It may have holes or empty areas within it, so that this open space becomes a part of the artwork. A closed form sculpture is solid and self-contained.

The thinker (le penseur) is a very famous scultpture by Rodin. Rude, Barye, Dalou, Maillol are among other famous French sculptors.

A very famous French sculpture was also created by Felix Bartholdi. As it was extremely large, the engineer Gustave Eiffel had to create an internal frame to support it. It was afterwards shipped to New York when you can see her large figure holding a torch. I'll let you guess her name.

George Stubbs (1724-1806) is the most famous one but there are, of course, others.

Crazy Horse

Donatello and Andrea del Verrocchio did.

There were actually two bronze David statues created in the Italian 15th century. The most famous was by Donatello in the 1440s, and the other was by Verrocchio done later in the 1470s. Verrocchio was the teacher of Leonardo da Vinci. Both works are in the Bargello Museum in Florence, Italy.

Dale Chihuly started using glass as a medium for this art in the 1960s. He worked as an apprentice in glassblowing in Italy in 1968 and 1969. He established a glass program at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1969, and the Pilchuck Glass School for glass artists in 1971.

The start cannot be pinpointed to any one year or artist. Modern art usually means the art of the 20th century, but it has its roots earlier in artists as van Gogh and Cezanne.

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Roman statues were usually made of bronze or marble. A few statues were made in gold, but hey were extremely rare.

Marble was a common building and sculpting material in the western ancient world. Its a stone that's relatively easy to work with and durable. Also there were great marble quarries in Italy, so the expense of transporting it was minimal.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial has the carvings of four US Presidents carved out of granite. The four presidents are: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.