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Threefoldness. Michael Podro has argued that when a picture depicts it does so by artistic of techniques presentation. I enhance the related idea from Richard Wollheim of (pictorial) art being 'twofold' by supplementing it with art's experiential dimension. An artwork's characteristic ontology in general is threefold. In a work there is a measure of exemplificatory reproduction that we recognize by anticipating unimodal resemblances. Next, there is the experiential effect of the work's representational efficacy, which is achieved, thirdly, by the artistic means of presenting the resemblances. Presentation is what intimates the experiential dimension of the reproduced. (I:2-6; III:5; VII:3-4)