Tate glossary definition for sculpture: Three-dimensional art made by one of four basic processes: carving, modelling, casting, constructing.MainmenuArt&artistsExhibitions&eventsPlanyourvisitMainmenuadditionalBecomeaMemberShopExpandArt&artistsArtTermsSSculptureArtTermSculptureThree-dimensionalartmadebyoneoffourbasicprocesses:carving,modelling,casting,constructingTwitterFacebookEmailPinterestHenryMooreOM,CHRecumbentFigure1938Tate©TheHenryMooreFoundation.AllRightsReservedLouiseBourgeoisSpider1994ARTISTROOMSTateandNationalGalleriesofScotland.LentbytheEastonFoundation2013Photo:ChristopherBurke,©TheEastonFoundationRachelWhitereadUntitled(Twenty-FourSwitches)1998Tate©RachelWhitereadGraysonPerryMyGods1994Tate©GraysonPerryCarvingCarvingisasculpturaltechniquethatinvolvesusingtoolstoshapeaformbycuttingorscrapingawayfromasolidmaterialsuchasstone,wood,ivoryorbone.LeftRightTheMakingofRodin,6May–10October2021BooknowAugusteRodinTheKiss1901–4SirJacobEpsteinJacobandtheAngel1940–1OndisplayatTateBritainpartofWalkThroughBritishArtBenNicholsonOMcirca1936(sculpture)c.1936SalouaRaoudaChoucairInfiniteStructure1963–5JacquesLipchitzSculpture1915–16HenriGaudier-BrzeskaRedStoneDancerc.1913OndisplayatTateBritainpartofSpotlightsDameBarbaraHepworthCorinthos1954–5RonaldMoodyJohanaan1936OndisplayatTateBritainpartofWalkThroughBritishArtHenryMooreOM,CHMask?1928OndisplayatTateLiverpoolpartofWhoseTradition?CastingCastinginvolvesmakingamouldandthenpouringaliquidmaterial,suchasmoltenmetal,plastic,rubberorfibreglassintothemould.Acastisaformmadebythisprocess.Manysculpturesareproducedbytheartistmodellingaform(normallyinclay,waxorplaster).Thisisthenusedtotocreateamouldtocastfrom.Amouldcanbecastmorethanonce,allowingartiststocreateeditionsofanartwork.LeftRightRachelWhitereadUntitled(Stairs)2001SirHamoThornycroftTeucer1881LouiseBourgeoisMamelles1991,cast2001AntonyGormleyThreeWays:Mould,HoleandPassage1981–2Frederic,LordLeightonAnAthleteWrestlingwithaPython1877OndisplayatTateBritainpartofWalkThroughBritishArtGert