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Definitions of terms

Attempt at a definition of terms in the performing arts

• Bust
  Sculptural representation of a person in half-length or up to the shoulder.
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• Frieze
  Narrow architectural strip that serves to enclose, delimit, divide and decorate parts of a building.
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• Installation
  Spatial, site-specific and often also location- or situation-related three-dimensional work of art.
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• Painting
  Application of paint to a surface using brushes, palette knives or other objects.
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• Object / object art
  Work of art made from one or more found objects - sometimes also processed or alienated. The origins of this form of expression lie in the collages of Cubism and Dadaism.
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• Sculpture
  A three-dimensional work of art (clay, plaster, porcelain, wax, plasticine, cast materials such as bronze, silver, gold, brass, copper, plastic, gypsum, concrete, floating works) modeled, formed, cast from a pictorial mass using an additive process (addition of material).
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• Portrait
  Painting, photograph, sculpture or other artistic representation of one or more people.
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• Relief
  Representation that stands out plastically from the background (sunken relief, bas-relief, half-relief, high relief). Stands between painting and sculpture. A medallion is a relief in a round or elliptical frame.
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• Sculpture
  A three-dimensional work of art made from a solid mass (stone, wood, concrete, etc.), produced by a subtractive process (removal, cutting out, hollowing out).
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• Statue
  A free-standing plastic or sculpture depicting a person or animal.
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