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Studio Art has historically been understood as a discipline involved with the practice of making paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures for the purpose of aesthetic contemplation. Since the late nineteenth century, this definition has been continually expanded to include a variety of media and processes, including (but not limited to) photography, collage, computer imagery, conceptual art, performance art, earthworks, video, soundscapes, and installation art. While many artists continue to use traditional media such as oil paint, watercolors, engraving, lithography, stone carving, and bronze casting, others use the ordinary materials of everyday life to make found-object or welded-steel sculptures, mechanical objects controlled by computers, or all-encompassing environments which the audience enters rather than viewing from a safe distance.
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Sokolove, D. (2013). Art, Studio. In: Runehov, A.L.C., Oviedo, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_1382
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