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
Its walls were covered with a sort of handy-volume library, military maps and various favorite specimens of plastic art, mostly antiques, of which he had procured copies while yet a prince.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
It is needless to say that by manufactured article no work of plastic art is meant.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
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