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Plastic arts are those visual arts
Visual arts

The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
 that involve the use of material
Material

Materials are substances or components with certain physical properties which are used as inputs to Production, costs, and pricing or manufacturing....
s that can be moulded or modulated in some way, often in three dimensions. Examples are clay
Clay

Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained minerals, which show plasticity through a variable range of water content, and which can be hardened when dried and/or fired....
, paint
Paint

Paint is any liquid, liquifiable, or mastic composition which after application to a Substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque solid film....
 and plaster
Plaster

The term plaster can refer to plaster of Paris, lime plaster, or cement plaster. This article deals mainly with plaster of Paris.Plaster of Paris is a type of building material based on calcium sulfate Hydrate, nominally CaSO4?0.5H2O....
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The plastic arts may refer to:








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Plastic arts are those visual arts
Visual arts

The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
 that involve the use of material
Material

Materials are substances or components with certain physical properties which are used as inputs to Production, costs, and pricing or manufacturing....
s that can be moulded or modulated in some way, often in three dimensions. Examples are clay
Clay

Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained minerals, which show plasticity through a variable range of water content, and which can be hardened when dried and/or fired....
, paint
Paint

Paint is any liquid, liquifiable, or mastic composition which after application to a Substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque solid film....
 and plaster
Plaster

The term plaster can refer to plaster of Paris, lime plaster, or cement plaster. This article deals mainly with plaster of Paris.Plaster of Paris is a type of building material based on calcium sulfate Hydrate, nominally CaSO4?0.5H2O....
.

The plastic arts may refer to:

  • Architecture
    Architecture

    The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
  • Ceramics
    Ceramics (art)

    Ceramics is the art and science of making objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials by the action of heat. In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean tableware, Work of art and tiles made from clay and other ceramic materials by the process of pottery, so excluding glass and also mosaic, normally made from glass tesserae....
  • Collage
    Collage

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  • Conceptual art
    Conceptual art

    Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
  • Drawing
    Drawing

    Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
  • Glass art
    Glass art

    Glass art and Glass sculpture is the use of glass as an artistic medium to produce sculptures or two-dimensional artworks. Specific approaches include stained glass, working glass in a torch flame , glass beadmaking, glass casting, Fused glass, and, most notably, glass blowing....
  • Land art
    Land art

    Land art, Earthworks, or Earth art is an art movement which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked....
  • Metalworking
    Metalworking

    Metalworking is the process of working with metals to create individual parts, assemblies, or large scale structures. The term covers a wide range of work from large ships, bridges and oil refineries to delicate jewellery....
  • Mosaic
    Mosaic

    Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other material. It may be a technique of Decorative arts, an aspect of interior decoration or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral....
  • Painting
    Painting

    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
Paper art
  • The use of Plastics within the arts
    The arts

    The arts is a broad subdivision of culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. It is a broader term than "art", which as a description of a field usually means only the visual arts ....
     or as an artform itself
  • Printmaking
    Printmaking

    Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable of producing multiples of the same piece, which is called a 'print....
  • Sculpture
    Sculpture

    Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
  • Textile art
    Textile art

    Textile art may refer to:*Any one of the textile arts, those arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects...
  • Welding
    Welding

    Welding is a fabrication or sculpture process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence . This is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material that cools to become a strong joint, with pressure sometimes used in conjunction with heat, or by itself,...
  • Woodworking
    Woodworking

    Woodworking is the process of building, making or carving something using wood....
  • Film
    Film

    Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
  • Film Photography
    Cinematography

    Cinematography , is the making of Stage lighting and camera choices when recording photographic s for the film. It is closely related to the art of photography....


Materials that can be carved or shaped, such as stone or wood, concrete or steel, are also included in this definition, since, with appropriate tools, such materials are also capable of modulation.

This use of the term "plastic" in the arts should not be confused with Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian, , was a Dutch people Painting.He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg....
's use, nor with the movement he termed, in French and English, "Neoplasticism."

Further reading

  • Barnes, A.C., The Art in Painting, 3rd edition,1937,Harcourt,Brace & World, Inc., NY
  • Bukumirovic, D. (1998). Maga Magazinovic´. Biblioteka Fatalne srpkinje knj. br. 4. Beograd: Narodna knj.
  • Gerón, C. (2000). Enciclopedia de las artes plásticas dominicanas: 1844-2000. 4th ed. Dominican Republic s.n.
  • Fazenda, M. J. (1997). Between the pictorial and the expression of ideas: the plastic arts and literature in the dance of Paula Massano. N.p.
  • Laban, R. V. (1976). The language of movement: a guidebook to choreutics. Boston: Plays
  • Laban, R.v. (1974). Effort: economy in body movement. 2d ed. Boston: Plays, inc
  • La Farge, O. (1930). Plastic prayers: dances of the Southwestern Indians. N.p.
  • Restany, P. (1974). Plastics in arts. Paris, New York: N.p
  • University of Pennsylvania. (1969). Plastics and new art. Philadelphia: The Falcon Pr.


See also

  • Visual arts
    Visual arts

    The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
  • Media (arts)
    Media (arts)

    In the arts, media are the materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work....
  • Art materials
    Art materials

    Techniques and materials related to art:...
  • Recording medium
  • Handicraft
    Handicraft

    Handicraft, also known as craftwork or simply craft, is a type of work where useful and decorative devices are made completely by hand or using only simple tools....