Defining 'Sculpture'; Defining 'Painting'

Sculpture

Tate

Sculpture
"Three-dimensional art made by one of four basic processes: carving, modelling, casting, constructing" - Tate Source: http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture

Dictionary.com

noun

1.the art of carving, modelling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
2. such works of art collectively.
3. an individual piece of such work. verb (used with object), sculptured, sculpturing.
4. to carve, model, weld, or otherwise produce (a piece of sculpture).
5. to produce a portrait or image of in this way; represent in sculpture.
6. Physical Geography. to change the form of (the land surface) byerosion. verb (used without object), sculptured, sculpturing.
7. to work as a sculptor.
(Source: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sculpture)

Painting

noun
1. a picture or design executed in paints.
2. the act, art, or work of a person who paints.
3. the works of art painted in a particular manner, place, or period:
a book on Flemish painting.

Reflection

• Tates definition of sculpture 'basic processes' indicate that perhaps it is a more intrinsic level of making that is more involved with a more ancient understanding of the world and how we express ourselves.
• Dictionary.com’s definition of sculpture adds more context to the meaning by suggesting it can be abstract or figurative, or anything in between. The same website's definition of painting is described as an 'act', or an art painted in a particular manner, implying that there is a wide variety of styles. 
• Can painting and sculpture be the same thing? I feel like both of the mediums essentially could be. Perhaps it's 'abstraction' that I'm looking at. 

• My definition of sculpture (for my practice) is, the process of making a material three dimensional and transforming a material from its original state, to expose the details within, for aesthetic effect. 

• I feel that I am always painting when I create sculpture, and this mixture of painting and sculpture is something that I am highly intrigued by now. 
• A quote from the book "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark" by Don Thompson stands out to me still: "I only discuss two-dimensional works on canvas or paper, and sculpture [excluding all other art forms apart from the photography of Cindy Sherman]... because major auction houses do not sell them under the heading of contemporary art" p.10.
• I want to mix these mediums and forms between painting and sculpture as they are both forms that I am highly engaged with. This stems from the fact that they are both the most highly commercial pieces of art, and in a way this is a subtle critique still, yet I enjoy the processes of both.

• All the paintings/ sculptures I produce now reference metal or have metal in them, and work with the processes of sculpture, through 'painting'. For example the mild steel welded piece, I am painting with the welding, yet it is a process of sculpture. 

• The plinth painting idea literally takes the context of sculpture (the plinth being the thing that you place an object upon) and turns it into this commercial object itself, elevated through this fact that it is the 'elevation' object and comments on this object and base argument.