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"Plastic art" Quotes from Famous Books

... duffer! Vospovitch is an innovator. Don't you see that he's brought satire into sculpture? The future of plastic art, of music, painting, and even architecture, has set in satiric. It was bound to. People are tired—the bottom's tumbled out ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... perfection of these, Lubke, the most eminent German authority on plastic art, referring to the early works in the tombs about Memphis, declares that, "as monuments of the period of the fourth dynasty, they are an evidence of the high perfection to which the sculpture of the Egyptians had attained." Brugsch declares that "every artistic production of ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... not my object to give a history of the development of the plastic art, but to show the great excellence it attained in the hands of ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume III • John Lord

... experimental attempts and fruitless essays. One would have said that, moved by jealousy of the future marvels of the Greek sculptors, she also had resolved to model a statue herself, and to prove that she was still sovereign mistress in the plastic art. ...

— King Candaules • Theophile Gautier

... solid block of stone look as if it were a representation on a flat surface. This contradiction explains the origin of the theory giving supreme pictorial importance to the Third Dimension. For art criticism though at length (thanks especially to the sculptor Hildebrand) busying itself also with plastic art, has grown up mainly in connexion with painting. Now in painting the greatest scientific problem, and technical difficulty, has been the suggestion of three-dimensional existences by pigments applied to a two-dimensional surface; and this problem ...

— The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics • Vernon Lee

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