Sculpture

Sculpting in its classical form consists mainly of the primary techniques of carving or modelling, and such secondary techniques as molding, casting or firing. Decorations and colouring are among subsidiary treatments. Modern sculpting has added the primary technique of construction, although earlier examples include such figurative art as the Trojan Horse, and the Colossus of Rhodes. Modernism has also introduced the assembling of an object or objects from components, as a sort of three-dimensional collage. All these techniques may be mixed as well. Machine-made mass-produced sculpture is a commonplace and they are often purchased with another kind of mass-produced sculpture in relief: coins. While life is esthetically more enjoyable with sculpture, its profusion is now disfiguring the natural green spaces in public parks, washing water in continuously flowing sculpted fountains and profaning the memories of those intended to be honoured by exposing their distinguished sculpted brows to the dirty tracks of urban fowl.