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Specialty Knowledge entries in Visual Arts.

The Thinker, a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin

Sculpture

Sculpture is the art of creating three-dimensional works by carving, modeling, casting, or assembling material into a shape meant to be experienced in physical space rather than on a flat surface. Because a sculpture occupies real volume, viewers typically can walk around it and view it from multiple angles, a spatial quality unique among the

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The art of creating three-dimensional works by carving, modeling, casting, or assembling material.

Portrait of Surrealist artist Salvador Dali

Surrealism

Surrealism is a twentieth-century cultural and artistic movement that sought to unlock the creative potential of the unconscious mind, rejecting rational control over art and writing in favor of dreamlike imagery and chance. Formally founded in Paris in 1924, it grew to encompass painting, literature, photography, and film, and remains one of the most recognizable

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A 20th-century movement seeking to unlock the unconscious mind through dreamlike imagery, automatic writing, and chance.