Sculpture

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Sculptors and architects both work with form in space, albeit on different scales and using varying methods. Anthony Caro, known for taking sculpture off the plinth, likes the idea that the art form ‘has another sort of life… that’s a bit closer to architecture’. On the eve of his retrospective at Tate Britain – its largest sculpture show to date – he shares some common ground with ‘gherkin’ architect Norman Foster

The Gallery of Lost Art is an immersive, online exhibition that tells the fascinating stories of artworks that have disappeared. Each week a new story of loss is added and the evidence presented for examination

Neoclassicism was a particularly pure form of classicism that emerged from about 1750

In its specific sense realism refers to a mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterised by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner; however the term is also generally used to describe artworks painted in a realistic almost photographic way

New sculpture is a name applied to the sculptures produced by a group of artists working in the second half of the nineteenth century

Late nineteenth-century movement that advocated the expression of an idea over the realistic description of the natural world

Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted

Constructivism was a particularly austere branch of abstract art founded by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko in Russia around 1915

Geometry of Fear was a term coined by the critic Herbert Read in 1952 to describe the work of a group of young British sculptors characterised by tortured, battered or blasted looking human, or sometimes animal figures

The term New British sculpture applies to the work of young British sculptors in the 1980s who, in reaction to minimal and conceptual art, adopted a more traditional approach to materials, techniques and imagery

Minimalism is an extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s and typified by artworks composed of simple geometric shapes based on the square and the rectangle

New generation sculpture were a group of young British sculptors working in the 1960s, who experimented with materials, forms and colours with the shared aim of ridding sculpture of its traditional base

An alternative term for installation art; environments are mixed-media constructions or assemblages usually designed for a specific place and for a temporary period of time

Land art or earth art is art that is made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks or making structures in the landscape using natural materials such as rocks or twigs

The label Young British Artists (YBAs) is applied to a loose group of British artists who began to exhibit together in 1988 and who became known for their openness to materials and processes, shock tactics and entrepreneurial attitude

A relief is a wall-mounted sculpture in which the three-dimensional elements are raised from a flat base

The term installation art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time

A maquette is model for a larger piece of sculpture, created in order to visualise how it might look and to work out approaches and materials for how it might be made

Mixed media is a term used to describe artworks composed from a combination of different media or materials

Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought specially

Metal is a solid, hard, opaque material that has been used by sculptors since ancient times

Alabaster is a soft white or translucent stone, it is a fine-grained marble-like variety of gypsum

The material plaster of Paris is a fine white powder which, when mixed with water, forms a white solid

A mobile is a type of sculpture that is formed of delicate components which are suspended in the air and move in response to air currents or motor power

The term readymade was first used by French artist Marcel Duchamp to describe the works of art he made from manufactured objects. It has since often been applied more generally to artworks by other artists made in this way