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SCULPTOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An artist who creates sculptures
Synonyms:
carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sculptor" is a kind of...):
artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sculptor"):
sculptress (a woman sculptor)
Instance hyponyms:
Lorado Taft; Taft (United States sculptor (1860-1936))
David Roland Smith; David Smith; Smith (United States sculptor (1906-1965))
George Segal; Segal (United States sculptor (born in 1924))
Auguste Rodin; Francois Auguste Rene Rodin; Rodin (French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917))
Pablo Picasso; Picasso (prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973))
Pheidias; Phidias (ancient Greek sculptor (circa 500-432 BC))
Claes Oldenburg; Claes Thure Oldenburg; Oldenburg (United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929))
Isamu Noguchi; Noguchi (United States sculptor (1904-1988))
Louise Nevelson; Nevelson (United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988))
Henry Moore; Henry Spencer Moore; Moore (British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986))
Amedeo Modigliano; Modigliani (Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920))
Michelangelo; Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564))
Aristide Maillol; Maillol (French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944))
Lysippus (Greek sculptor (4th century BC))
Jacques Lipchitz; Lipchitz (United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973))
Lin; Maya Lin (United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959))
da Vinci; Leonardo; Leonardo da Vinci (Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519))
Gaston Lachaise; Lachaise (United States sculptor (born in France) noted for his large nude figures (1882-1935))
Hoffman; Malvina Hoffman (United States sculptor (1887-1966))
Barbara Hepworth; Dame Barbara Hepworth; Hepworth (British sculptor (1902-1975))
Alberto Giacometti; Giacometti (Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966))
Daniel Chester French; French (United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931))
Epstein; Jacob Epstein; Sir Jacob Epstein (British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959))
Donatello; Donato di Betto Bardi (Florentine sculptor famous for his lifelike sculptures (1386-1466))
Crawford; Thomas Crawford (United States neoclassical sculptor (1814-1857))
Benvenuto Cellini; Cellini (Italian sculptor (1500-1571))
Alexander Calder; Calder (United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976))
Brancusi; Constantin Brancusi (Romanian sculptor noted for abstractions of animal forms (1876-1957))
Bernini; Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680))
Bartholdi; Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty now in New York harbor)
Praxiteles (ancient Greek sculptor (circa 370-330 BC))
Derivation:
sculpt (shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it)
sculpt (create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material)