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Historically the term plastic arts pre-dates neoplasticism, denoting the visual arts (painting, sculpture, ceramics), as opposed to the art of writing (literature, music).[15] In academic art, the word plastic means physically shapeable materials.[16] As a graduate of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten [State academy of fine art], it is reasonable to assume that Mondrian was familiar with this usage. In an essay for De Stijl, he wrote "The freedom to make changes in the plastic position of the means of expression is unique to painting. The sister arts, sculpture and architecture, are less free in this respect".[17] (The modern meaning of the word plastic,a synthetic polymer, was unknown at the time.) Theosophists call the spiritual essence of matter the "plastic soul" (taken from the Sanskrit "Svabhavat"). Mondrian is known to have an interest in theosophy and owned a copy of Blavatsky's book "The Key to Theosophy", which defines the term "plastic" in those terms (page 360).
Mondrian (1925). Mondrian, Piet (1925). [Le néo-plasticisme.] Neue Gestaltung. Neoplastizismus. Nieuwe Beelding [[Le néo-plasticisme.] New design. Neoplasticism. Nieuwe Beelding.]. Bauhausbücher. (no. 5) (in German). Translated by Rudolf F. Hartogh; Max Burchartz. OCLC503815757.