Sculpture vs. Ceramic — What's the Difference?

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts.

A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing a nonmetallic mineral, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain, and brick.

The art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal.

Made of clay and permanently hardened by heat

A work of art created by sculpture.

Pots and other articles made from clay hardened by heat

Such works of art considered as a group.

Any of various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing a nonmetallic mineral, such as clay, at a high temperature.

Ridges, indentations, or other markings, as on a shell, formed by natural processes.

An object, such as earthenware, porcelain, or tile, made of ceramic.

To sculpt.

Ceramics (used with a sing. verb) The art or technique of making objects of ceramic, especially from fired clay.

To ornament with sculpture

Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.

To make sculptures or a sculpture.

(uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high tempature.

(countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).

(countable) An object made of this material

Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.

Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.

(zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.

An artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures

(archaic) A printed picture, such as an engraving.

Of or relating to or made from a ceramic;

To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.

To represent something in sculpture.

To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.

The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.

Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.

To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.

A three-dimensional work of plastic art

Creating figures or designs in three dimensions

Create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material;

Shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it;