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Why would they be safe with 3D printers being a thing?
That's kind of its own category of art: designing 3D-Printed stuff.
I mean stuff like cutting wood or doing something out of bricks etc.
What difference does the medium make? The people who think AI pictures are good enough or even better than art made by humans will be perfectly fine with generating 3D models and printing them if they want any kind of sculpture.
I think he meant painting and the like when saying "plastic arts", not doing art with plastic.
Or so I guess.
Plastic arts is sculptures, three dimensional things like statues. Nothing to do with plastic, the material. It just so happens that 3D printing is a type of plastic art that uses types of plastic as its medium.
Not only 3D things, it englobes paintings too, some add photo & film even.
If that's the case, it's a language barrier thing. The equivalent to "plastic art" in my native language excludes paintings.
Fair enough!
English and french seems to include it.
What's the language? Maybe it's more literal and fr/en has some historical etymology...
In German, it's "plastische Kunst". The adjective "plastisch" basically means "three dimensional", as in "not flat".
Plastische Chirurgie is plastic surgery - it's not primarily putting "plastic" into bodies ;) but sculpting a three dimensional form.
Interesting, in french, latin, greek before that, it seems it's about plasticity, the possibility to modulate materials.
Stumbled onto wilipedia and Kant coining the modern expression, with, if I understood it correctly, painting in the definition. Guess it didn't stick in his homeland :-)