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             For the artist, Dan Graham, the work is both a sculpture and an installation. This architecture is public rather than private, involved with leisure and display, and with meditation as well as social interaction. The walls of the pavilion shift between transparent and reflective states as the intensity of light changes, creating changing and complex visual effects with the sky, surrounding landscape, and interactions with people on the roof. While this is an extreme example of letting an audience decide for themselves what to look at, it is a universal law of art. Be it a play, a painting, or a sculpture, the audience will look at what they want to. All an artist can do is attempt to lead the audience in the direction they want them to go, using techniques such as diagonal lines, or effective scenery, or chiseled features. Not always will the reaction the artist wants happen, but if the artist is talented, it will work most of the time. This act of putting the viewer first is what makes art appealing to the masses.
             The problem arises when the artist feels that his or her motivation behind creating the work is somehow of a greater meaning than the viewer's own understan
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