Sculptural
adjective
Related to sculpture or having qualities of a sculpture.
The temple has sculptural decorations carved into the stone.
Often appears as...
- sculptural work
- sculptural design
adjective
Having a specific shape or form that is artistic or aesthetic.
Her fashion pieces have a sculptural quality to them.
Often appears as...
- sculptural quality
- sculptural form
adjective
Related to sculpture or having qualities of a sculpture.
The temple has sculptural decorations carved into the stone.
Often appears as...
- sculptural work
- sculptural design
adjective
Having a specific shape or form that is artistic or aesthetic.
Her fashion pieces have a sculptural quality to them.
Often appears as...
- sculptural quality
- sculptural form
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Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Origin
Use 'sculptural' to highlight a connection to art, specifically sculptures and their characteristics.
The park's sculptural fountain became a local art piece.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Impact
'Sculptural' often implies a striking, noticeable feature that stands out, like a statue does.
The new mall's sculptural architecture draws everyone's attention.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Sometimes 'sculptural' is used metaphorically to suggest something is artful or well-crafted, not actually sculpted.
Her dance moves had a sculptural precision.
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Origin
Use 'sculptural' to highlight a connection to art, specifically sculptures and their characteristics.
The park's sculptural fountain became a local art piece.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Impact
'Sculptural' often implies a striking, noticeable feature that stands out, like a statue does.
The new mall's sculptural architecture draws everyone's attention.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Sometimes 'sculptural' is used metaphorically to suggest something is artful or well-crafted, not actually sculpted.
Her dance moves had a sculptural precision.
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Origin
Use 'sculptural' to highlight a connection to art, specifically sculptures and their characteristics.
The park's sculptural fountain became a local art piece.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Impact
'Sculptural' often implies a striking, noticeable feature that stands out, like a statue does.
The new mall's sculptural architecture draws everyone's attention.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Sometimes 'sculptural' is used metaphorically to suggest something is artful or well-crafted, not actually sculpted.
Her dance moves had a sculptural precision.
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Lessons from fashion's...
copyright protection including the food industry you cannot copyright a recipe because it's a set of instructions it's fact and you cannot copyright the look and feel of even the most usee unique dish same with automobiles it doesn't matter how wacky they look or how cool they look you cannot copyright the sculptural
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Ross Lovegrove: The...
That's a solar seed. It's a concept for new architecture. That thing on the top is the world's first solar-powered garden lamp -- the first produced. Giles Revell should be talking here today -- amazing photography of things you can't see. The first sculptural model I made for that thing in Tokyo.
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Brian Dettmer: Old books...
I'm sort of making it into something that's more new and more contemporary. I'm thinking also about breaking out of the box of the traditional book and pushing that linear format, and try to push the structure of the book itself so that the book can become fully sculptural.
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Photos of Africa, taken...
and each one was unique, it had a different pattern. And each mosque was like a sculptural masterpiece, and no two were alike. I've flown all over the world, and nothing can really compare to the cultural diversity of Africa. You see it in every country, from Morocco
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Hip hop: a culture...
wanted to make some something sculptural and I didn't have an idea really what I was going to do when I got there but I took a tour of the facility and saw this 15-foot robot arm and I was like whatever I'm going to do I'm going to do with that
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Why glass towers are bad...
to give the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that crinkly, sculptural quality. The architect Stefano Boeri even created living facades. This is his Vertical Forest, a pair of apartment towers in Milan, whose most visible feature is greenery.
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Bridges should be...
It's a bit of a mouthful. Us engineers love those kinds of words. But what you do with this -- this is really superstrong, and it's really durable, and you can get this fantastic sculptural quality. Who said concrete bridges are dull?
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Ancient Greece 101 PIPE...
their cultural contributions left a considerable mark on the western world. Particularly noteworthy were the ancient Greeks' art and architecture. They created incredible sculptural works, such as standing figures and reliefs.
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Johanna Blakely: Lessons...
you cannot copyright the sculptural design. It's a utilitarian article, that's why. Same with furniture, it's too utilitarian. Magic tricks, I think they're instructions, sort of like no copyright protection.
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Architecture that's...
So the following year, I decided to go to architecture school. But there, I learned something different about buildings. Recognition seemed to come to those who prioritized novel and sculptural forms,
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Lessons from fashion's...
copyright protection including the food industry you cannot copyright a recipe because it's a set of instructions it's fact and you cannot copyright the look and feel of even the most usee unique dish same with automobiles it doesn't matter how wacky they look or how cool they look you cannot copyright the sculptural
Video examples
Ross Lovegrove: The...
That's a solar seed. It's a concept for new architecture. That thing on the top is the world's first solar-powered garden lamp -- the first produced. Giles Revell should be talking here today -- amazing photography of things you can't see. The first sculptural model I made for that thing in Tokyo.
Video examples
Brian Dettmer: Old books...
I'm sort of making it into something that's more new and more contemporary. I'm thinking also about breaking out of the box of the traditional book and pushing that linear format, and try to push the structure of the book itself so that the book can become fully sculptural.
Video examples
Photos of Africa, taken...
and each one was unique, it had a different pattern. And each mosque was like a sculptural masterpiece, and no two were alike. I've flown all over the world, and nothing can really compare to the cultural diversity of Africa. You see it in every country, from Morocco
Video examples
Hip hop: a culture...
wanted to make some something sculptural and I didn't have an idea really what I was going to do when I got there but I took a tour of the facility and saw this 15-foot robot arm and I was like whatever I'm going to do I'm going to do with that
Video examples
Why glass towers are bad...
to give the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that crinkly, sculptural quality. The architect Stefano Boeri even created living facades. This is his Vertical Forest, a pair of apartment towers in Milan, whose most visible feature is greenery.
Video examples
Bridges should be...
It's a bit of a mouthful. Us engineers love those kinds of words. But what you do with this -- this is really superstrong, and it's really durable, and you can get this fantastic sculptural quality. Who said concrete bridges are dull?
Video examples
Ancient Greece 101 PIPE...
their cultural contributions left a considerable mark on the western world. Particularly noteworthy were the ancient Greeks' art and architecture. They created incredible sculptural works, such as standing figures and reliefs.
Video examples
Johanna Blakely: Lessons...
you cannot copyright the sculptural design. It's a utilitarian article, that's why. Same with furniture, it's too utilitarian. Magic tricks, I think they're instructions, sort of like no copyright protection.
Video examples
Architecture that's...
So the following year, I decided to go to architecture school. But there, I learned something different about buildings. Recognition seemed to come to those who prioritized novel and sculptural forms,
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Oneohtrix Point Never
American Musician
The subject is missing from 'Replica' - it's about malleability of materials, and working with metaphor, and sculpting in time. So that makes a collaboration with another person who pushes sound in a sculptural way appealing, because you're like, 'Let's see what dimensionality is introduced from this other perspective that I might not have.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.
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Hugh Hardy
American Architect
There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.
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Edward Tufte
American Educator
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
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Frank Gehry
American Architect
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
French Novelist
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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Parker Stevenson
American Actor
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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Ruth Bernhard
German Photographer
To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.
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Jonathan Anderson
Irish Designer
Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
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Robert Wilson
American Director
Light is architectural. It is sculptural.
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Oneohtrix Point Never
American Musician
The subject is missing from 'Replica' - it's about malleability of materials, and working with metaphor, and sculpting in time. So that makes a collaboration with another person who pushes sound in a sculptural way appealing, because you're like, 'Let's see what dimensionality is introduced from this other perspective that I might not have.
Quote examples
Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.
Quote examples
Hugh Hardy
American Architect
There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.
Quote examples
Edward Tufte
American Educator
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
Quote examples
Frank Gehry
American Architect
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
French Novelist
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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Parker Stevenson
American Actor
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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Ruth Bernhard
German Photographer
To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.
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Jonathan Anderson
Irish Designer
Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
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Robert Wilson
American Director
Light is architectural. It is sculptural.
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