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The resulting artworks are studied in the professional fields of art criticism and the history of art. The Department of Fine Art supports the IVS Gallery which has in the past successfully organized reputable national and international art exhibitions. The department has also hosted artist residencies in collaboration with Vasl Artists’ Collective. As part of the Talking Art Series, eminent artists regularly visit as special guests for seminars, talks, tutorials and workshops. The Department of Fine Art has recently introduced an internship programme during the summer break for students in semester five. Before Modernism, aesthetics in Western art was greatly concerned with achieving the appropriate balance between different aspects of realism or truth to nature and the ideal; ideas as to what the appropriate balance is have shifted to and fro over the centuries. The aesthetic theorist John Ruskin, who championed what he saw as the naturalism of J. M. W. Turner, saw art's role