Art

Canonical definition

Art is an Object made to be engaged for its form, whose form carries content. A work of Art engages three functions. Perceiving it is the Observer's function: the Observer reads the work's configuration and weights it with Salience, including the depicted directional valence of any Models the work presents, whatever the medium. Interpreting it and making it are the Thinker's, as Intrinsic Motivation, and interpretation runs downstream of perception, beginning from the valuation the Scalar delivers. The Beliefs a work presents divide across the Hardness–Referent Matrix: Beliefs about its form sit in the aesthetic regime, and Content-Beliefs drawn from physical reality or from the coupled dynamics of a population each sit in their own regime. The classification turns on what a work carries and not on its medium.