Editing Plastic arts (section)

{{Short description|Art that involves physical manipulation}}
{{distinguish|Plastic in art}}
'''Plastic arts''' are [[art form]]s which involve physical manipulation of a ''plastic medium'', such as [[clay]], [[wax]], [[paint#Art|paint]]{{snd}} or even plastic in the modern sense of the word (a [[ductile]] [[polymer]]){{snd}} to create [[work of art|works of art]].  The term is used more generally to refer to the [[visual arts]] (such as painting, sculpture, ceramics, architecture, film and photography), rather than literature and music.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plastic%20arts |title=Merriam-Webster Online (entry for "plastic arts") |publisher=Merriam-webster.com |access-date=2011-10-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Jill Anderson  |last=Kyle  |date=2009 |title=Cezanne and American Modernism |editor-last1= Staviydky |editor-last2=Rothkoff |publisher=Yale University Press |edition=First |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cezanneamericanm0000ceza/page/66/mode/2up 67,68] |isbn=9780300147155}}</ref>  Materials for use in the plastic arts, in the narrower definition, include those that can be carved or shaped, such as [[Rock (geology)|stone]] or [[wood]], [[concrete]], [[glass]], or [[metal]].