| Humanities | Broad areas of human creativity and study essentially involved with values and generally not using strictly objective or scientific methods.
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| Values | Objects and events that we care about, that have great importance. Also, in regard to color, value refers to the lightness or darkness of a hue; shading.
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| Sensa | The qualities of objects or events that stimulate our sense organs, especially our eyes. See sensuous.
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| Subject matter | What the work of art "is about"; some value before artistic clarification. See content.
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| Artistic form | The organization of a medium that clarifies or reveals a subject matter. See subject matter, content, decorative form, and work of art.
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| Perception | Awareness of something stimulating our sense organs.
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| Abstract painting | Painting that has the sensuous as its subject matter. See representational painting.
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