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Sculpture vs Icon - What's the difference?

sculpture | icon |

As nouns the difference between sculpture and icon

is that sculpture is the art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor while icon is an , symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.

As a verb sculpture

is to fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.

sculpture

English

Noun

(en-noun) (wikipedia sculpture)
  • (uncountable) The art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor
  • (countable) A work of art created by sculpting.
  • * Dryden
  • There, too, in living sculpture , might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
  • Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
  • Verb

    (sculptur)
  • To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
  • To represent something in sculpture.
  • To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
  • icon

    English

    (wikipedia icon)

    Alternative forms

    * eikon, ikon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
  • A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
  • A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
  • That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
  • A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
  • (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also (symbol) and (index).
  • Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.
  • Derived terms

    * aniconic, aniconism * iconism

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