what do you think are some of the difficulties that a talented artist must have faced in that era ?
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Art forms have always been created to communicate important messages and to inspire people to act and think. Before humankind learned to read we depended solely on word of mouth or on visual symbols to express meanings and to learn something. This is not a NEW IDEA.
We flatter ourselves if we think that the past (or other people's past and other places are the same as anyone's NOW,
Audiences have always been varied. They were/are different, defined by different by social and geographic perceptions/constraints and whether or not they shared or share similar sets of meanings. With increased communication between groups may come increasingly different levels of literacy and social diversity within and the awareness of this between societies, as well as a possible increase social interaction between societies, Hopefully humans can learn to respect one another's differences
So art is used to communicate different different messages within different contexts. Art forms continue to communicate to people but it does so in a varied way to potentially wider mix of diverse audiences.
Making art for a specific audience requires that the art -makers think of their audience when they create. Human experience is not monolithic or unilineal (in the sense of 'travelling from simple to complex), Different views of the world are expressed in the process of making art to different audiences. Not everyone 'gets it' at the same time'.
As has been paraphrased by other people....One man's meat is another's poison'. (or a gentle variant of this is a pun on the word poison/ "poisson" ..."One man's meat is another's fish")