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

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

That greatest triumph of idealism in plastic art, inspired by famous lines in the Iliad, was, by the consent of all antiquity, the masterpiece of Pheidias.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel