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Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium by molding or modeling such as sculpture or ceramics. The term is also used to refer to the visual arts (such as painting, sculpture, ceramics, architecture, film and photography), rather than literature and music. Materials for use in the plastic arts, in the narrower definition, include those that can be carved or shaped, such as stone or wood, concrete, glass, or metal.

"Plastic art" should not be confused with the art described by Neoplasticism. Piet Mondrian wrote an essay in 1937 entitled "Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art (Figurative Art and Non-Figurative Art) ", published in the book CIRCLE. In this essay, as the title implies, "plastic art" is described as "figurative" and "objective"; whereas "pure plastic art" is "non-figurative" and "subjective".

History

The word "plastic" draws from the Greek word "plasticos," which means "to mold" or "to shape." It has long preceded its dominant modern meaning as a synthetic material. The term "plastic arts" has been used historically to denote visual art forms (painting, sculpture, and ceramics) as opposed to literature or music. The related terms plasticity and plasticism became more widely used in the early 20th century by critics discussing modern painting, particularly the works of Paul Cézanne.

The oldest known "plastic art" dates back to 30,000–34,000 BP.

Philosophy

In contrast to the limiting of 'plastic arts' to sculpture and architecture by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling in 1807, the German critic August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845) applied the concept not only to visual arts, but also poetry.

Classical poetry lines he saw utilizing plastic isolation, and rhyme falling under the Romantic (domain).

In Schlegel's Viennese lectures (1809–1811), published in 1827 as On the Theory and History of the Plastic Arts, he contrasted the plasticism of Classical Art with picturesque Romanticism. He

operated with the antinomy of terms plastic/pictorial, mechanically/ organically, finite/ infinite, and closed/accomplished. Schlegel stated that the spirit of the entire antique culture and poetry was plastic and that the spirit of modern culture, however, was picturesque (pittoresk)

These distinctions were carried over into Russian Romanticism aesthetics

Venevitinov objected to the indiscriminate use of the term 'pictures'. In his use of August Schlegel's term 'plastic' (plastisch, plastika) he argues for a return to the simple, primitive, enclosed, defined, limited, finite, corporeal, and plastic world of the ancients. There seem to have been two interpretations of the plastic - picturesque contrast (antitheses) in Romantic Idealist philosophy. As Venevitinov uses the contrast, and as August Schlegel intended it to be used when he defined it in Lecture I of Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur, it denoted the difference between the corporeal mind of the man of antiquity and the 'picturesque' mind of modern man. Ancient art appeals directly to the senses, modern art gives rise to mental pictures or images. The former is therefore real and corporeal, the latter ideal.

Gallery

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• Saytour Torchons Nîmes
• Sarabande Musée des Tissus Lyon 2007-2008
• Milton Becerra Ale'ya Durban Segnini Gallery Miami 2009.
• La Ferté Bernard Festival Artec 2010
• Bois de Belle Rivière Québec 2010
• MasterCard/Visa (If it wasn't for plastic money I wouldn't have any money at all) Tyler Turkle, 2006, Poured Acrylic, 54 × 43 inches

See also

• Art materials – Materials and tools used to create a work of artPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Handicraft – Item production made completely by hand or with simple tools
• Media (arts) – Materials and tools used to create a work of artPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Plastic in art – Use of synthetic materials to create art
• Visual arts – Art forms involving visual perception

References

1. "Merriam-Webster Online (entry for "plastic arts")". Merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
2. Mondrian, Piet (1937). CIRCLE. Internet Archive: Faber and Faber Ltd. pp. 41–56. ISBN 0-571-09552-6. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
3. Kyle, Jill Anderson (2009). Staviydky; Rothkoff (eds.). Cezanne and American Modernism (First ed.). Yale University Press. pp. 67, 68. ISBN 9780300147155.
4. Witzel, E. J. Michael (2012). The Origins of the World's Mythologies. Oxford University Press. p. 260. ISBN 9780199710157. Apart from rock art, whether engraved, drawn, or painted, there also exist some examples of early sculptures and plastic art (30,000–34,000 bp )
5. Russian Romantic Criticism: An Anthology, edited by Lauren Gray Leighton, Published by Greenwood Publishing Group, 1987, ISBN 0313255849, ISBN 978-0313255847
6. The literary theories of August Wilhelm Schlegel by Ralph W. Ewton jnr, Published by Walter de Gruyter and Co (1972), ISBN 3110991632, ISBN 978-3110991635
7. Civic Art Then and Now: The Culture of Good Place-making by Charles C. Bohl, in Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis: Modern Civic Art and International Exchanges, edited by Charles Bohl and Jean-François Lejeune, Published by Routledge, 2009, ISBN 0415424070, ISBN 978-0415424073
8. Russian Romantic Criticism: An Anthology, edited by Lauren Gray Leighton, Published by Greenwood Publishing Group, 1987, ISBN 0313255849, ISBN 978-0313255847

Further reading

• Barnes, A. C., The Art in Painting, 3rd ed., 1937, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., NY. OCLC 1572753
• Bukumirovic, D. (1998). Maga Magazinovic. Biblioteka Fatalne srpkinje knj. br. 4. Beograd: Narodna knj.
• 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.
• Gerón, C. (2000). Enciclopedia de las artes plásticas dominicanas: 1844–2000. 4th ed. Dominican Republic s.n.
• Schlegel, August Wilhelm., (1966) Vorlesungen uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 1966, p. 21f.

External links

• Media related to Plastic arts at Wikimedia Commons

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