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| Additive process (related to sculpture) |
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| (2) In sculpture, the process in which form is built up, shaped, and enlarged by the addtion of materials, as disinguished from subtractive sculpture process, such as craving. |
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| An additive sculptural process in which various and diverse elements and objects are combined. |
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| The process of making sculpture by pouring molten material - often bronze - into a mold bearing the sculpture's impression. See also, lost-wax process. |
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| The dispostion of the human figure in which the hips and legs are turned in oppostion to the sholders and chest, creating a counter-positioning of the body. |
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| As opposed to relief, sculpture that requires no wall support and that can be experience from all sides. |
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| In lost-wax casting, a mixture of water, plaster, and powder made from ground-up pottery used to fill the space inside the wax lining of the mold. |
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| A bronze-casting method in which a figure is molded in wax and covered with clay; the whole is fired, melting away the wax and hardening the clay; and the resulting hardened mold is then filled with molten metal. |
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| Modeling (relation to sculpture) |
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| In sculpture, the shaping of a form in some plastic material; such as clay or plaster. |
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| A term for casting, by, for instance, the lost-wax process, in which wax is replaced by bronze. |
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| Subtractive process (related to scupture) |
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| (2) In sculpture,the process in which form is discovered by the removal of materials, by such as carving, as distinguished from additive sculptural process, such as assemblage. |
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