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Modern sculpture is generally considered to ... 1910–12, La Musique, bas-relief, Théâtre des ... Fulcrum 1987, 55-ft-high freestanding sculpture of Cor-ten steel ...
Modern and contemporary art have added a number of non-traditional forms of sculpture, including sound sculpture, light sculpture, environmental art, environmental sculpture, street art sculpture, kinetic sculpture (involving aspects of physical motion), land art, and site-specific art. Sculpture is an important form of public art.
In modern times, it was named after the relief sculpture of two lions or lionesses in a heraldic pose that stands above the entrance. [1] The gate is the sole surviving monumental piece of Mycenaean sculpture, [2] as well as the largest surviving sculpture in the Bronze Age Aegean. [3]
Assyrian sculpture typically placed prominent pairs of lamassu at entrances in palaces, facing the street and also internal courtyards. They were represented as "double-aspect" figures on corners, in high relief. From the front they appear to stand, and from the side, walk, and in earlier versions have five legs, as is apparent when viewed ...
Jacques Lipchitz, 1916, Sculpture, plaster, 116.9 x 36.8 x 34.2 cm, Tate Modern. The early sculptures of Jacques Lipchitz, 1911-1912, were conventional portraits and figure studies executed in the tradition of Aristide Maillol and Charles Despiau. [33] He progressively turned toward Cubism in 1914 with periodic reference to Negro sculpture.
The Parthenon frieze is the high-relief Pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon's naos. It was sculpted between c. 443 and 437 BC, [1] most likely under the direction of Phidias. Of the 160 meters (524 ft) of the original frieze, 128 meters (420 ft) survives—some 80 percent. [2]
Stela H, a high-relief in-the-round sculpture from Copán in Honduras Maya stelae (singular stela ) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica . They consist of tall, sculpted stone shafts and are often associated with low circular stones referred to as altars, although their actual function is uncertain ...
Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois.The sculpture, which depicts a spider, is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (9.27 x 8.91 x 10.24 metres). [1]