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en bulto

English translation: solid

23:43 May 30, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / sculpture
Spanish term or phrase: en bulto
This is a description of pre-Hispanic sculpture:

Entre estas culturas precolombinas, el modo más frecuente de representar la figura humana corresponde a las figuritas antropomorfas o “figurinas”, cuerpos o cabezas modelados en bulto o huecos, de diversos tamaños, con alturas que varían entre 5 y 30 cm.

solid versus hollow?

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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 02:30
English translation:solid
Explanation:
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Sergio Kot
Israel
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3 +1solid
Sergio Kot
4Solid
Gloria Tosoratti
3 +1as a statue / as a mass
JohnMcDove
3(bas relief vs) counter-relief
ormiston
Summary of reference entries provided
References
Sara Fairen

  

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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
solid


Explanation:
See ref


    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solid%20casting
Sergio Kot
Israel
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sara Fairen: solid/hollow figurines
1 hr
  -> Thanks Sara!
neutral  philgoddard: I feel this is the most likely answer, but your reference doesn't support it.
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Solid


Explanation:
The sculptor does the sculpture with a mass of material

Example sentence(s):
  • Esta talla do su mejor obra de arte en un bulto de roca de mármol.
Gloria Tosoratti
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as a statue / as a mass


Explanation:

https://es.oxforddictionaries.com/translate/spanish-english/...

4
(estatua)
statue

I understand it as oposed to "vaciado" (cast)

https://es.oxforddictionaries.com/translate/spanish-english/...

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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulto_redondo

I believe it is not a matter if the statue is solid or hollow, the point is that it is not "altorrelieve" nor "bajorrelieve" or otherwise...


https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajorrelieve

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relieve_(arte)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief

It is more like "free standing sculpture"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue

A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic,

JohnMcDove
United States
Local time: 22:30
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Juan Jacob: It is.
5 mins
  -> Thank you very much, Juan. :-)
neutral  philgoddard: A statue can be solid or hollow.
18 hrs
  -> Thank you, Phil. It is not so much if it is "solid" or "hollow", but in this case is just "free standing", type of sculpture, not a relief...
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1 day 9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
(bas relief vs) counter-relief


Explanation:
This is how I imagine these sculptures but maybe I'm mistakzn


Relief - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Relief

The opposite of relief sculpture is counter-relief, intaglio, or cavo-rilievo, where the form is cut into the field or background rather than rising from it; this is very rare in monumental sculpture.
Relief carving · Relief (disambiguation) · Relief imagi

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Reference comments


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Reference: References

Reference information:
Material Relations: The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic Honduras ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkjm1

They include both humans and animal figures, some hollow and constructed like ceramic vessels, others solid. Likely due to constraints on firing solid ceramic ...

WHAT AND WHERE IS OLMEC STYLE? Regional perspectives ... - Jstor


https://www.jstor.org/stable/26308203
de JP Blomster - ‎2002 - ‎Citado por 33 - ‎Artículos relacionados
Mesoamerica, one particular type of artifact—the hollow figurine—is examined. A definition of .... figurines, hollow ceramic figurines differ from solid ones in sig.

Figurine Embodiment and Household Ritual in an Early Mixtec Village

https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/12586?lang=en

The region is best known for its late Prehispanic polities (Dahlgren de .... The Tayata sample included 173 solid figurine fragments and 6 hollow fragments.

The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines


https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0191663107
Timothy Insoll - 2017 - ‎Social Science
Hollow figurines often exhibit similar styles to solid figurines but on a larger scale, ... Throughout prehispanic societies, polysemic bodies served as dynamic ...

Sara Fairen
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

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agree  ormiston: ok, should have read this
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