plastic art

American  

noun

1. an art, as sculpture, in which forms are carved or modeled.

2. an art, as painting or sculpture, in which forms are rendered in or as if in three dimensions.

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Etymology

Origin of plastic art

First recorded in 1630–40

Example Sentences

These scientists and conservators work to understand the destruction and decay of plastic art and artifacts in order to save them for generations to come.

From National Geographic • May 31, 2018

Concord commissioned its youthful representative of the plastic art to model a statue of a Minute Man.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, film has become a most pliable plastic art.

From Time Magazine Archive

Madame Gunther told her that it was long before she had acquired a taste for plastic art.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

If Michelangelo's sculpture had been the only contribution of this period to plastic art, that would have been sufficient to place it high among the periods of greatest productivity in this department of art.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.