Artifact vs Sculpture - What's the difference?
artifact | sculpture |
An object made or shaped by human hand.
(archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
* "The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy" (Philip Weiss).
A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
(computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.
(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
Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
To represent something in sculpture.
To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
As nouns the difference between artifact and sculpture
is that artifact is an object made or shaped by human hand while sculpture is the art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor.As a verb sculpture is
to fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.artifact
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Alternative forms
* artefactNoun
(en noun)- The dig produced many Roman artifacts .
- The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
- This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has too many unsightly compression artifacts , making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.
References
* * "artefact" is the preferred spelling in Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary'', with ''artifact listed as a variant. * "artifact" is preferred by the Oxford English Dictionary and most American dictionaries.sculpture
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Noun
(en-noun) (wikipedia sculpture)- There, too, in living sculpture , might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.