It provides paths between Chinese painting, sculpture and decorative art.
Many of the artists seem to move easily between painting and sculpture.
Since these works are essentially two-dimensional, they challenge the distinction between painting and sculpture.
Their energy also derives from the tension they set up between painting and sculpture.
He thus illustrates the connection between Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and sculpture.
Until 1933 he divided his efforts between sculpture and painting.
In a sense, the fixtures on display fall between sculpture and appliances.
They also further blur the distinctions between painting and sculpture.
By focusing on the skin rather than the interior, it called attention to the interaction between sculpture and its environment.
The relation between sculpture and base is not always resolved.