The Plastic arts may refer to:

• Sculpture
• Dance
• The use of Plastics within the arts or as an artform itself.

Plastic Arts are those visual arts that involve the use of materials that can be moulded or modulated in some way. Examples are clay, paint, plaster. Arts that can be said to be Plastic Arts are therefore Painting, Sculpture, Drawing etc.

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

Further reading

• Bukumirovic, D. (1998). Maga Magazinović. 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.