Definition of Plastic art

1. Noun. The arts of shaping or modeling; carving and sculpture.

Generic synonyms: Art, Fine Art
Specialized synonyms: Sculpture

Definition of Plastic art

1. Noun. A visual art such as painting and sculpture, in contrast to music which is auditory. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plastic Art

plasterer's float
plasterers
plastering
plastering trowel
plasterings
plasterless
plasterlike
plasterly
plasters
plasterwork
plasterworks
plastery
plastibase
plastic
plastic anatomy
plastic art
plastic arts
plastic bag
plastic bags
plastic beauty
plastic bomb
plastic bronchitis
plastic cheese
plastic corpuscle
plastic cyclitis
plastic deformation
plastic embedding
plastic explosive
plastic explosives
plastic film

Literary usage of Plastic art

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke (1904)
"Greek plastic art. A. SUBJECT AND FORM. The imagination of the Greeks delighted in sculpture; the art, therefore, in which they took precedence of all other ..."

2. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke, Clarence Cook (1877)
"plastic art IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. ... plastic art could only approximate to a similar result by giving up her peculiar fundamental ..."

3. The Principles of Greek Art by Percy Gardner (1914)
"But that fact does not make it fairly typical of the rest; in fact, it differs in so many and so striking ways from plastic art that only the most general ..."

4. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"SCULPTURE, MODELS AND plastic art, MOSAICS, ENAMELS, ETC. ... The admission, however, of objects included under the definition " plastic art," has greatly ..."

5. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"art, of plastic art. And they succeed in magic, in beauty, in grace, in expressing almost the inexpressible : here is the charm of Reynolds's children and ..."

6. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke (1904)
"Greek plastic art. A. SUBJECT AND FORM. The imagination of the Greeks delighted in sculpture; the art, therefore, in which they took precedence of all other ..."

7. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke, Clarence Cook (1877)
"plastic art IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. ... plastic art could only approximate to a similar result by giving up her peculiar fundamental ..."

8. The Principles of Greek Art by Percy Gardner (1914)
"But that fact does not make it fairly typical of the rest; in fact, it differs in so many and so striking ways from plastic art that only the most general ..."

9. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"SCULPTURE, MODELS AND plastic art, MOSAICS, ENAMELS, ETC. ... The admission, however, of objects included under the definition " plastic art," has greatly ..."

10. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"art, of plastic art. And they succeed in magic, in beauty, in grace, in expressing almost the inexpressible : here is the charm of Reynolds's children and ..."

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