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Art and Art: Often borrows from commonly used content or from preceding works, e.g. Rembrandt's sketch of Leonardo's Last Supper. Can borrow through content, technique, style, medium or theme.

Art and Nature: May use landscape or rural settings to evoke emotion.

History and Stories: Appears to have a story or narrative quality behind the imagery often present through the iconography.

Fantasy and Invention: Pulls from the realm of the imagination. This type of art is not often founded in logic or reality.

Looking Inward: Introspective, has a contemplative and/or empathetic quality.

Looking Outward: Often time or site specific (time capsule). Allows you to glimpse at a given culture or time period through the object.

Visual Delight: Holds aesthetic appeal and is engaging to the senses.

Art for Daily Life: Slice of life may be recognized by functionality. Art for daily life may also attempt to capture a moment of the mundane.

Religion/Sacred Realm: Often visually communicates abstract concepts dependent on faith on a more concrete way. Works may be used for worship or to contain holy objects...etc.

Social/Political: Political art often has an underlying agenda and uses imagery as a means to an end. Social art lend to class status, economic conditions, gender roles, ethnicity in a given time/place...etc.

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