I also learned through the reading of Gilson’s (Statuary) Forms and Substances in the Arts that a sculpture’s first characteristic is to appear as a solid and it should constitute space. Another characteristic of sculpture is that not only should it constitute space, but it is also bound by time. This means that sculpture or statues require time in order to be appreciated and fully understood. 

Besides these, I learned that sculpture has three different forms wherein beauty is displayed and these are sculpture’s form and beauty in classical sculpture, Renaissance sculpture, baroque sculpture, and in modern sculpture. Examples of these are Greek and Roman sculptures for classical sculpture, Michelangelo’s Pieta for Renaissance sculpture, Ecstasy of St. Theresa for Baroque sculpture, and Isamu Noguchi’s water stone for modern sculpture. The forms of these three types of sculpture are different, but what they all have is common is that they all constitute space, there is motion present in the sculptures, and there is mass that highlights the bulk that the sculptures occupy in space.