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

In music, in plastic art, in literature, in all higher forms of mental activity, even in the professions and in business, the same state of case is present.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

German plastic art was one of realism, modified by a strong decorative tradition centuries old, based not only on precedent but on propriety.

From Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Breck, Joseph