What are the principle of art did you apply in your sculpture?

Answer: The principles of sculptural design govern the approaches of sculptors to such fundamental matters as orientation, proportion, scale, articulation, and balance.

Why are sculptures important?

Sculpture is a great pretender; a fabrication that points to our need for storytelling and artifice. We have art so we won’t die of truth. Sculpture networks ideas, articulates subjectivities and creates communities. Sculpture reflects its place – its society – its time.

What is the significance of sculpture in history and culture?

For thousands of years sculptures have been used by humans for various reasons. We use them for spiritual reasons, like statues of gargoyles, Jesus or angels. We use them for remembering history, such as the famous Abraham Lincoln statue in Washington DC. We even have statues purely for art and decoration.

What are the uses of sculpture?

It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process.

How do you describe sculpture?

Sculpture, an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects.

What are the elements of sculpture?

Compelling and jargon-free, The Elements of Sculpture discovers and isolates the attributes – from the most physical to the most ephemeral – that make up an essential three-dimensional visual language; the very elements that form the tools sculptors use to create their art: Material, Place, Surface, Edge, Texture.

Why do elements and principles of design important in making a sculpture?

In any work of art there is a thought process for the arrangement and use of the elements of design. The artist who works with the principles of good composition will create a more interesting piece; it will be arranged to show a pleasing rhythm and movement.