or to the frame. A viewer with a background in physics, however, might object to our limit, since his understanding of the thing ruptures at the subatomic, or on a continuum of changing states.

An analyst with a degree in psychology (or sociology, anthropology, or even history, philosophy or critical discourse, etc.) may feel compelled to refute our obvious indication of the painting's boundary. Those qualified to elaborate on the immaterial world of human experience and interaction, the social, the relational, view art as an expansive subject, more than (only) a singular, singularly created and specific kind of object.

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Art can provide the means by which we receive our perception of the cosmos in which humanity exists. Art can be utilized further, to suggest how we should exist, how we ought to behave, how we should react to conditions, events, others and so on. Art can be instructive, in short, as a tool in shaping behavior.