Poznań, Poland

Faculty of Sculpture

Wydział Rzeźby

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Faculty of Sculpture at UAP

University website: uap.edu.pl/english

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Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. 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. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded, or cast.
Sculpture
Tacitus says, that the Jews held God to be something eternal and supreme, neither subject to change nor to decay; therefore, they permit no statues in their cities or their temples. The universal Being can only be described or defined by negatives which deny his subjection to the laws of all inferior existences. Where indefiniteness ends, idolatry and anthropomorphism begin.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, in Essay on Christianity (1859)
Sculpture
The marble index of a mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book III.
Sculpture
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoön how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, Art.
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