WORD OF THE DAY
An artist who creates three-dimensional works of art is a sculptor. Some sculptors carve designs out of a piece of wood or stone, while others weld slabs of metal together to create their masterpieces.
The thing distinguishing a sculptor from other artists is that their work can be viewed from many different sides, instead of being a relatively flat painting or collage. Sculptors today work in just about any medium you can imagine, including clay, fabric, metal, bone, plastic — even sand and ice. Ancient Greek and Roman sculptors created lifelike figures from marble and bronze, some of which you can still see in museums today. The Latin root of sculpture means "to carve."
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Vocabulary lists containing sculptor
This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that means "one who; action or process."
This historical fiction tracks the journey of a massive granite obelisk which was designed and erected in ancient Egypt and then transported to New York City's Central Park in 1881.
