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Icon Shears Icon Shears Intentionalism holds that authorial intent plays a decisive role in the meaning of a work of art, conveying the content or essential main idea, while all other interpretations can be discarded. It defines the subject as the persons or idea represented, and the content as the artist's experience of that subject. For example, the composition of Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne is partly borrowed from the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. As evidenced by the title, the subject is Napoleon, and the content is Ingres's representation of Napoleon as "Emperor-God beyond time and space". New Media Art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, photography, video, Internet art, and interactive art. In new media programs, students are acquainted with the newest forms of creation and communication. They learn how to sort through new emerging technological platforms and place them in a larger context of s...