Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving and modelling, in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast.

शिल्पकला म्हणजे संगमरवरासारखे दगड, धातू, लाकूड इत्यादी कठीण पदार्थ किंवा माती, मेण, पॉलिमर इत्यादी मऊ पदार्थांना आकार देऊन, जोडून अथवा कोरून त्रिमितीय आकृती बनवण्याची कला होय. शिल्पकलेतून बनवलेल्या कलाकृतीस 'शिल्प' असे म्हणतात. मूर्ती, पुतळे तसेच रचनात्मक आकृतिबंध अशा स्वरूपांत शिल्पे घडवली अथवा कोरली जातात.