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Conclusion Part II: The audience is not a passive. They bring their own experiences, their own perspectives, their own biases to the encounter. A painting of a sunset may evoke feelings of peace and beauty for one person and feelings of melancholy and loss for another. The artwork is the same, but the audience is different, and so the meaning is different. In this sense, the audience is a cocreator of the art.

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