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All cultures throughout history have produced art. The impulse to create, to realize form and order out of mere matterÑto recognize order in the world or to generate it oneselfÑis universal and perpetual.

ASPECTS OF ART

Every work of art has two aspects: it is a present experience as well as a record of the past, and it is valued, preserved, and studied for both identities. As present experience, artworks afford people the pleasures, the tensions, the dramas, and ultimately the satisfaction to the senses of pure formÑin the visual arts the relationships among colors, lines, and masses in space.

Art History and Its Methods

The meaning of the word art, derived from the Latin ars, meaning "skill," has changed through history. In medieval Europe, proficiency in the "liberal arts" was the goal of an educated person; only by the 19th century did the word come to denote painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic arts, and decorative arts. A distinction then arose between......

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