Sculptures

In history, animals, people and objects have been reproduced in a three-dimensional way, for different purposes, religious, sexual, to help in hunt, to bring crops, etc. All these representations we can catalog as sculptures.

The earliest reproductions found at prehistorical sites were animals carved in bone or clay. They originate from the same timeframe as sculptures of woman in favour of maternity - Venus of Willendorf or Venus of Lespugue.

Later, we can refer this to different currents in the Greek more hieratic sculptures like those from the temple in Knosos or those of Mesopotamia from the Persian culture. In turn, in Chinese culture sculptures were developed caring their own unique characteristics. Likewise, in four thousand years of Egyptian culture where sculptures are very special and of distinctive cut.

Likewise, in South America and North America have different concepts in sculptures, very schematic and symbolic, Mayan, Aztec cultures represented with signs and very symbolic by their crafting depicting different aspects of their civilisation.

All this leads to an explosion of styles in the sculptures of ancient Greece. Beginning two centuries before the birth of Christ, where it advances in the reality and movement in the sculpture giving it much more realism than in any other cultures, to name Polyphletete Doriphor as na excellent example.

All this sculptural quality was adopted later by the Roman Empire. The Romans initially copied almost all the Greek work and later developed their own styles.

The sculptures over time begun to lose this reality, especially , in medieval times and due to religious motives. An example of this would be the Virgin of the Moreneta, which is much more schematic and expressive.

The closer we come to our times the more we  see new and different advanced styles being developed in sculpture. We speak of Neorealism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Hyperrealism, Constructivist etc.

All these types of sculpture, are advancing in different ways to express each artist, their time and their vision of the three-dimensional. Sometimes, affecting the space, others the air that surrounds each sculpture.

Everything is valid, while what you want to reflect in each of your works, is a new outlook, and a innovative and different concept. So the artist visualises in his artwork his own mind and then uses different materials to express it.

Discover all the works (realistic, abstract, cubist ...) found at our Buysculpture art gallery. And do not forget to also meet the sculptors of each one of them.