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sculptor

sculptor

48 3.5
A person who makes statues and other art by shaping stone, metal, or wood
  • noun
  • /ˈskʌlptər/
: 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
1 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
1 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
1 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

memorialist
1 7.7
sculptor
48 3.5
artisan
25 4.1
volunteer
160 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.