What is art?What have you learned from going to museums?Cite three art works in your response.
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Waterworn pebble resembling a human face, from Makapansgat, South Africa, ca. 3,000,000 BCE.
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A (Visual) Sign signifies something. Its form is arbitrary and it simply has to be learned.
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A (Visual) Symbol stands for something. It is connected to something through some form of relation (visual similarity, history, etc). It often depicts a real world object and is often metaphorical.
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Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf), from Willendorf, Austria, ca. 28,000–25,000 BCE. Limestone,