plastic art
Americannoun
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an art, as sculpture, in which forms are carved or modeled.
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an art, as painting or sculpture, in which forms are rendered in or as if in three dimensions.
Etymology
Origin of plastic art
First recorded in 1630–40
Example Sentences
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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
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
Upon it or upon its admixture with other qualities is based the music, the plastic art, and in a large measure the permanent literature of the world.
From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
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