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    SCULPTOR

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetusplay

    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 sculpturesplay

    Synonyms:

    carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    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)

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