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...... This is important as a way of getting at the underlying structures of all human expression that make some such expression art. Art has a wide appeal and conveys ideas about a culture and a people through their ability to shape certain materials into a design that has meaning. Every ceramic is a design, whether good or bad, and that design says something about the person who made it, the society in which they live, and the art they know and have absorbed in some fashion into their lives and their work. Art may be concrete, abstract, representational, or impressionistic, but all conform to some aesthetic principles that derive from all that has gone before, from the materials used, from the audience for which the work is created, and from the background of the individual artist. Not all of these elements are readily apparent, but close study can uncover many of them and add to the understanding of the work, just as close study of one type of art can bring an understanding to an examination of other types of art. So does a study of the art of painting and sculpture contribute to an understanding of the art

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