Talk:Plastic arts

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[edit] Dance is "plastic art"?

It could be, if you consider the visual, plastic aspect of dance, sort of like moving sculpture. so that sort of puts it in two categories, a plastic art, and a performing art. Tom 00:32, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

The purist would argue that the word plastic means what is says and adjoined to arts means literally the application or use of plastic in creativity. In this sense dance does not sit comfortably as an art form under this expression. But, as modern language evolves, the idiomatic and colloquial become the order of the day that even lexiconists enshrine in their dictionaries. The history of dictionaries is the history of how language changes and how meaning is diffused across a wider expression. Who would have believed that art could mean what is conceived as well as what is produced. Mmm? MAG 091205

Dance is a plastic art? Huh. -- Fplay 05:37, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Please correct me if I am wrong, but dance is not really one of the Plastic Arts is it? Duncan Smith 11:42, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

See http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Pin.html - I'm taking Dance out of plastic arts. (also rearranged this conversation to be chronological.) Clubmarx | Talk 20:08, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge this article into Visual Arts

I really think that Plastic Arts needs to be merged into Visual Art and then we should drop the word Plastic. I'm a professor of sculpture, I read journals of sculpture, talk to famous sculptors, and attend academic conferences and present papers on sculpture. No one in the field of sculpture refers to the plastic arts. We all call ourselves part of the visual arts. The phrase "plastic arts" largely fell out of common use in the mid-20th century. Just look at a few Google searches: Painting - 40 million hits; Sculpture - 15 million hits; but Visual Arts - 7 million; and Plastic Arts - 420,000. The conclusion is that, while sculpture is less referenced than painting, almost no one uses the phrase plastic arts. Why does no one use it? Because sculpture took on "non-plastic media" such as installation, performance, video projection etc in the 1960's and isn't only about clay, bronze, and statuary anymore. Grhabyt 14:52, 31 October 2007 (UTC)