The term art can also be used to designate one of several forms of expression such as filmmaking, painting, music, dance, architecture, sculptures, literature, and many other modes of aesthetic expression. Aesthetic expression has been present throughout history. Prime examples of ancient aesthetic expression are the pyramids. ... We can see the usage of pyramids in literature, movies, videos, plays and several other forms of aesthetic expression. ... The latter are concerned with skill of expression in language, speech, and reasoning. ...

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In a way, it might have begun with the Age of Enlightenment and its drive toward a mastery of nature and society, with human reason at the center of everything, since which rationality had been considered the key to justice, morality, control, organization, understanding and happiness. ... It completely changed the way artist used form, style, content, genre, expression, etc. ...

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And for many years abstract expressionism would be the odd end to this quest, at least that is, until young Leo Steinberg took abstract expressionism and with the help of a few other critics opened everyone's eyes to the fact that they had it all wrong. ... One had to step over the line of realism and rationality and into the odd world the critics and artists had created to be able to understand the art finally. ...

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