Complete the account of sculptural process.
Carving is a ______ process in which nothing can be put back, while modelling is ______ and reversible. Bronze is made by the ______-wax process, in which the wax is melted out to leave a cavity. Relief in which figures project more than half their depth is ______ relief.
Word bank: subtractive · additive · lost · high · direct · bas
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- The first pair is the root division of the medium.
- The third blank names what happens to the wax.
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Carving is a subtractive process in which nothing can be put back, while modelling is additive and reversible. Bronze is made by the lost-wax process, in which the wax is melted out to leave a cavity. Relief in which figures project more than half their depth is high relief.
The four terms cover process and result. Note that the first two are not merely techniques: they impose different working methods, different tolerances for error, and different possible poses, which is why the division is the first thing to establish about any sculpture.
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