- the arts range from high art to popular culture
- the arts offer a personal experience for everyone
- the arts push the boundaries of acceptability over time (eg Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain)
- for many, the arts hold little interest or influence
- the arts might encourage people to view society from different perspectives (eg Damien Hirst’s winning “Mother and Child (Divided),” a cow and a calf bisected and emerged in formaldehyde, was a tabloid sensation.)
- the arts could be seen as a reflection of society and its values at the time
- Contemporary works like Bansky can highlight issues that need to be solved
- arts can be elitist (Read Article)
- arts can be sexist (eg Les demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), Pablo Picasso _