Maquette
maquette (small preparatory sculpture model)
noun mah-KET Rare
Origin: from French 'maquette' (small model)
Usage Note
Maquette is a small preliminary model made by a sculptor to work out form, composition and scale before the final large-scale work is produced. Maquetten are often made in wax or clay and are collected as artworks in their own right.
Examples
"Die Maquette zeigt bereits klar die Dynamik der geplanten Monumentalfigur."
Natural Translation
The maquette already clearly shows the dynamism of the planned monumental figure.
Literal Translation
The maquette shows already clearly the dynamic of the planned monumental-figure.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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