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4863957159Aestheticrefers to a type of human experience that combines perception, feeling, meaning making, and appreciation of qualities of produced and/or manipulated objects, acts, and events of daily life. The experience motivates behavior and creates categories through which our experiences of the world can be organized.0
4863957160Artistic associationsinclude self-defined groups, workshops, academies, and movements.1
4863957161Artistic traditionsare norms of artistic production and artistic products. This is demonstrated through the art-making processes (utilization of materials and techniques, mode of display), through interactions between works of art and audience, and within form and/or content of a work of art.2
4863957162Artistic changesare divergences from tradition in artistic choices demonstrated through art-making processes, through interactions between works of art and audience, and within form and/or content. Tradition and change in form and content may be described in terms of style.3
4863957163Audiencesof a work of art are those who interact with the work as participants, facilitators, and/or observers. Their characteristics include gender, ethnicity, race, age, socioeconomic status, beliefs, and values. The groups may be contemporaries, descendants, collectors, scholars, gallery/museum visitors, and other artists.4
4863957164Contentof a work of art consists of interacting, communicative elements of design, representation, and presentation within a work of art. It includes subject matter: visible imagery that may be formal depictions, representative depictions (e.g., portraiture and landscape), and/or symbolic depictions. It may be narrative, symbolic, spiritual, historical, mythological, supernatural, and/or propagandistic.5
4863957165Contextincludes original and subsequent historical and cultural milieu of a work of art. It includes information about the time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created, as well as information about when, where, and how subsequent audiences interacted with the work.6
4863957166Design elementsare line, shape, color (hue, value, saturation), texture, value (shading), space, and form.7
4863957167Design principlesare balance/symmetry, rhythm/pattern, movement, harmony, contrast, emphasis, proportion/scale, and unity.8
4863957168Formdescribes component materials and how they are employed to create physical and visual elements that coalesce into a work of art. It is investigated by applying design elements and principles to analyze the work's fundamental visual components and their relationship to the work in its entirety.9
4863957169Functionincludes the artist's intended use(s) for the work and the actual use(s) of the work, which may change according to the context of audience, time, location, and culture. It may be for utility, intercession, decoration, communication, and commemoration and may be spiritual, social, political, and/or personally expressive.10
4863957170Materials(or medium) include raw ingredients (such as pigment, wood, and limestone), compounds (such as textile, ceramic, and ink), and components used to create a work of art. Some have inherent properties and tend to accrue cultural value .11
4863957171Presentationis the display, enactment, and/or appearance of a work of art.12
4863957172Responseis the reaction of a person or population to the experience generated by a work of art. They may be from an audience to a work of art of a physical, perceptual, spiritual, intellectual, and/or an emotional state.13
4863957173Styleis a combination of unique and defining features that can reflect the historical period, geographic location, cultural context, and individual hand of the artist.14
4863957174Techniqueinclude art-making processes, tools, and technologies that accommodate and/or overcome material properties. It may range from simple to complex and easy to difficult, and may be practiced by one artist or may necessitate a group effort.15
4863957175work of artis created by the artist's deliberate manipulation of materials and techniques to produce purposeful form and content, which may be architecture, an object, an act, and/or an event. It may be two-, three-, or four-dimensional (time-based and performative).16

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