plastic art
- noun
- /ˈplæstɪk ɑrt/
- Specialized
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arte plástico
- The gallery showcased various styles of plastic art, including stunning sculptures and intricate carvings.
If that's the case, then the visual plastic arts that we've been working with are not adequate to that task.
- If that's the case, then the visual plastic arts that we've been working with are not adequate to that task.
Examples
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Arts activities in early childhood education include the graphic and plastic arts, music, movement or dance, and creative dramatics and other language arts.
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We can see how Taeuber takes the static language of plastic art and, through dance, carves out in space its "living image."
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And I think we are in the plastic arts now.
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In fact, Thompson has always refused to talk about African plastic arts in a vacuum.
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If that's the case, then the visual plastic arts that we've been working with are not adequate to that task.
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In the ambitious agenda outlined in the very first issue in 1967, the editors proposed to emphasize the graphic and plastic arts in each winter issue; music, dance, and cinema in the spring; and literature and theater in the summer.
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While these might have some usefulness for a literary critic, they are factors alien to the analysis of the plastic arts, even when the artwork is paired with a narrative text and meant to complement it.
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His Llegenda is not striking for the story itself, as it is an amalgamation of previous discourses, but for a visual quality that is typical of the plastic arts.
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Moreover, Catalan modernism, especially in architecture, design, the plastic arts, and the art of bookmaking, typically highlights the decorative over the purely functional.
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The Dapper has given many grants for research and for curatorial training to African and other students and scholars, but its efforts are mainly dedicated to informing the larger public about the plastic arts of Africa by publishing books and organizing exhibitions.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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The art of making three-dimensional figures by carving or molding
How Three-Dimensional
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'plastic' (malleable, able to be shaped) + 'art', so a learner who knows these senses can infer it refers to art produced by molding or shaping materials (e.g., sculpture). The composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g., French/Spanish 'arts plastiques'/'artes plásticas'), which supports immediate comprehension.
Etymology
Plastic art comes from an older meaning of plastic — 'to be shaped' — and shows an artist molding clay or carving stone into forms. That's why plastic art means art made by shaping materials, like sculpture or pottery.