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

I have no time to occupy myself with poetry, with plastic art, or music.

From What Shall We Do? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Through plastic art we appeal directly to the sensibilities of many untutored souls, that we could not touch through literature.

From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher