Picture making is not object making. I probably would have to agree that difference is getting to be semantic. What I have often thought to call myself is a picture-maker which is definitely different from a sculptor. I think Jessica Stockholder is really dealing with those issues of definition but it really doesn't interest me at all. I think probably abstract painting lends itself to blurry definitions.
Abstraction is a fundamental building block of representations painting.
Well, in some ways, painting will not have the impact that other media's have. Painting is not dead its really acquiring more depth. Maybe those elaborate ornate frames that use to be put around paintings are just resurfacing in side the painting. Illusionary image-making via the computer is really enlarging the scope of image making but the computer has a different sensibility. Maybe its the sensibility of the facsimile generation.