Than Pottery From Ancient Cultures, Though Conversely Traditions Of Sculpture In Wood May Have Vanished Almost Entirely. However, Most Ancient Sculpture Was Brightly Painted.
This Has Been Lost.Sculpture Has Been Central In Religious Devotion In Many Cultures, And Until Recent Centuries, Large Sculptures, Too Expensive For Private Individuals To Create.
Were Usually An Expression Of Religion Or Politics. Those Cultures Whose Sculptures Have Survived In Quantities Include The Cultures Of The Ancient Mediterranean, India And China.
Well As Many In Central And South America And Africa.The Western Tradition Of Sculpture Began In Ancient Greece, And Greece Is Widely Seen As Producing Great Masterpieces In The Classical Period.
Modernist Sculpture Moved Away From Traditional Processes And The Emphasis On The Depiction Of The Human Body, With The Making Of Constructed Sculpture, And The Presentation Of Found Objects As Finished Artworks.
A Distinction Between Sculpture "In The Round", Free-standing Sculpture Such As Statues, Not Attached Except Possibly At The Base To Any Other Surface, And The Various Types Of Relief, Which Are At Least Partly Attached To A Background Surface. Relief Is Often Classified By The Degree Of Projection From The Wall Into Low Or Bas-relief, High Relief, And Sometimes An Intermediate Mid-relief.