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The European Academies of the 16th century formally solidified the gap between the fine and the applied arts which exists in varying degrees to this day. Some purposes of art may be to express or communicate emotions and ideas, to explore and appreciate formal elements for their own sake, or to serve as representation. The meaning of art is shaped by the intentions of the artist as well as the feelings and ideas it engenders in the viewer. Since the introduction of conceptual art and postmodern theory, it has been proven that anything can, in fact, be termed art. The decorative arts add aesthetic and design values to the objects we use every day, such as a glass or a chair. Beauty in terms of art usually refers to an interaction between line, color, texture , sound, shape, motion, and size that is pleasing to the senses. Art, at its simplest, is a form of communication and means whatever it is intended to mean by the artist. The meaning of art is often shared among the members of a

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Extreme Intentionalism holds that authorial intent plays a decisive role in the meaning of a work of art, conveying the content or essential main idea, while all other interpretations can be discarded. It defines the subject as the persons or idea represented, and the content as the artist's experience of that subject. For example, the composition of Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne is partly borrowed from the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. As evidenced by the title, the subject is Napoleon, and the content is Ingres's representation of Napoleon as "Emperor-God beyond time and space". For example, music imitates with the media of rhythm and harmony, whereas dance imitates with rhythm alone, and poetry with language. Comedy, for instance, is a dramatic imitation of men worse than average; whereas tragedy imitates men slightly better than average. Lastly, the forms differ in their manner of imitation—through narrative or character, through change or no change, and thro