Plasticism

The life of ants is crowded with such socialphychological corrections which regulate the mechanism of instinct by individual “plasticisms,” conduct it into useful paths, and thus bring about an adaptation to external advantages and disadvantages.

The new man will be plastic and his essence will be plasticism (rather than humanism) .

A new world plasticism has now begun. The capitalists are deceivers, but the socialists are equally deceivers.

The New York plasticism will be also the plasticism of Paris and Petrograd.

But it also developed wonderfully in linear delineation, as seen in Seison's “Water-Drawing Ceremony”; in serene spatial constructivism, as seen in Gyoshu's “Tea Ceremony Room”; and in sharp and sensual plasticism as in Yuki's “Moonlit Night."

The only essentiel difference is in the degree of plasticism : the mosaic architecture is rather flat and two-dimensional while the architecture of the miniature introduces chiaroscuro.

But even as the Messmer-Sullivan cartoons emphasized Felix's ingenious use of that plasticism—as we see in his ability to turn his tail or a graphic flourish like an exclamation point into a useful, narrative-furthering prop, thus all the more flattening out the world, making "everything in the drawn world. . . of the same stuff," as Leslie suggests (23) -- the early Mickeys seem far more intent on making space function within the narrative so that it might thereby reveal itself.

While the expressive possibilities of Neoplasticism are limited to two dimensions (the plane), Elementarism realizes the possibility of plasticism in four dimensions, in the field of time-space.