Sculpture

wood carving

Sculpture is one kind of arts. Sculpture been one of the most important forms of documenting the human experience throughout history. the act of using hands or use basic sculptural tools to craft art has been found in most ancient civilizations, ranging from the Roman Empire to the Mayan and Inca empires in the Americas, as well as isolated tribes in Polynesia and deep in the Amazon jungle.

pottery

Sculpture have many types, there are wood carving, pottery, glass, metal, and stone. Sculpture for the first time use stone. Because in ancient period there are many stone. 


Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.

stone sculpture

Modernist sculpture movements include Cubism, Geometric abstraction, De Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Formalism Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Land art, and Installation art among others.
In the early days of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso revolutionized the art of sculpture when he Began creating his constructions fashioned by combining Disparate objects and materials into one constructed piece of sculpture; the sculptural equivalent of the collage in two dimensional art.