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Even the ancients were not complacent
Always, a painting or drawing exists in two dimensions. Simultaneously, since man exists in three dimensions, ideally a painting attempts to evoke a feeling and/or tell a story that subsists in three dimensions. Imposition of an artwork on a surface, which itself is not the artwork, suffices for differentiation of a painting or drawing from a sculpture.
A sculpture exists in three dimensions. For a sculpture as such, the medium — three dimensions — coincides with domiciles of it’s objectives, namely the domiciles of man.
For concreteness, whereas this artwork
obviously is a sculpture, on the other hand, this other artwork,
which consists, in entirety of lines drawn in two dimensions, that is, on canvas evokes a sense of three dimensions.
If the dichotomy that I highlight is true, the best paintings or drawings achieve their objectives via manipulation of two dimensions, do not attempt to cheat, do not attempt to combine two and three dimensions…
