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sculptor

sculptor

52 3.5
A person who makes statues and other art by shaping stone, metal, or wood
  • noun
  • /ˈskʌlptər/
translation icon : escultor
  • The sculptor carefully shaped the stone into a stunning statue.
  • painters and sculptors
  • sculptor works in stone
  • artists and sculptors

And Jim Renner is the second most exhibited sculptor in New York and AS.

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Examples

  • And Jim Renner is the second most exhibited sculptor in New York and AS.

  • If minimalist painters and sculptors create patterns in space, what kinds of artists create patterns in time?

    Academic text (2012)
  • Rome was the place for a sculptor to find work.

  • We are like blocks of stone out of which the sculptor carves the forms of men.

  • I loved meeting John Chamberlain, who was a sculptor friend of Roberts.

  • We met up with a sculptor named Andrew Freeman who runs Immortal Mass.

  • The daughter is a successful sculptor in Taos, but she never visits Gold Flume.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Louis Bourgeois is a sculptor famous for her giant spiders called Mom.

  • The compass, though later associated with architects, was also used by sculptors and painters.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Shared visions: Native American painters and sculptors in the twentieth century.

    Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

carver
vssculptor
7 4.6

An artist who cuts and shapes materials like wood and stone to make sculptures

is more general and includes other shaping methods beyond cutting
sculpturer
vssculptor
7.0

A person who makes art by shaping stone, metal or clay

is specific to those who carve or shape stone metal or wood
statue maker
vssculptor
4.3

A person who shapes stone, metal, or clay into statues

is the general artist term focusing on shaping materials into three dimensional art

How Professional

sculptor
52 3.5
artisan
55 4.1
volunteer
7 3.5

Surface Forms

sculptor singular
sculptors plural

Morphology

sculptor = sculpt (transparent) = sculpt + or

The noun is a straightforward agentive formation from the verb 'sculpt' plus '-or', meaning a person who sculpts.

Etymology

The word sculptor comes from the Latin root sculp- meaning 'to carve', the same root in sculpture. So a sculptor is someone who carves or shapes stone, metal, or wood into art.