Sculpture is one of the many types of art forms that exist in the world and have been around for centuries, creating a number of famous names of artists, and enriching the world with beautiful pieces of art.

A sculpture is a three dimensional piece of art created by shaping or combining various materials. Sculpture mostly makes use of materials like marble, metal, wood or glass, but it is not unlikely that softer materials like clay, polymers, plastics or softer metals be used. It is considered to be a plastic art due to the involvement of materials that can be either molded or modulated.

Carving, welding, hardening and even painting can go into the different types of sculptures that artists make. Some of the more common forms are statues, relief, architectural sculpture, kinetic sculpture (involving physical motion), environmental, site-specific or stacked art, etc. The term has even been extended to include sound, text or light art.

Sculptors have been using their talent and their hands to portray moments, feelings, people and personalities for centuries. This form of art has been considered to be perfect and able to convey the truth much more easily than any other art form. It has been compared to painting and its virtues proved a point to many, while leaving others curious to understand more about what it means to sculpt.

Sculptures convey qualities and flaws in a very real way. The details that go into any piece of art sculpted by an artist, whether these are pieces of clothing or fragments of color they all give the sculpture its beauty or even its ugliness. Together they all contribute to the timelessness of this form of art.

Sculpture has been always been different from artist to artist, but geography has played a major part in individual work, while the passing time has been a key element in shaping sculpture into newer forms with each passing decade.