Because your meals deserve some delightful ambiance, whether from a vintage Herman Miller hot dog poster or a framed painting ...

In all art forms, an audience enters the fantasy world of the artist through this aesthetic illusion. Each art form has its own way of facilitating participation in the aesthetic illusion.

or literati painting. This millennium-old aesthetic was revered by educated individuals—intellectuals and scholar-bureaucrats in ancient China and values the painter's erudition and expression ...