have grounding in actuality, has value in terms of its potentiality. the ideal can give a normative value. yes, art is just a representation, yes, a painting is just an arrangement of pigments on canvas, yes, poems are just an arrangement of words on a page, but these simple components like paint and words are the composite mediators between the material and the transcendent. art consists of factical, material symbols indirectly expressing something beyond the immediately factical. art is a being created in man's own image. in the process of creation, the artist reduces his transcendent subjectivism to a factic material in the form of a physical object, a painting in the series of brushstrokes, or a poem in the series of words. the viewer reinterprets that factic back into a transcendence the viewer cocreates the work of art in its interpretation. the work no longer becomes series, but whole. art moves from part to whole. art itself becomes full, and its origins vague so that the process of reinterpreting the past of the object and bringing it into being is a creative process. we create the meanings that we find in the world, we view the objects around us and give them meaning. the two main aspects in artistic creation and aesthetic theory for nietzsche are the apollonean and the dionysian. the apollonean is linked to sculpture