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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

English since the Elizabethan age has grown poor in purely lyrical words and idioms, for modern literature, like modern plastic art or music, rarely deals with unmixed feelings.

From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura

His tastes and capacities would have secured for him greater triumphs in any department of pictorial or plastic art, to which he was always insensibly drawn by instinct and congenial studies.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various