Art has long been controversial, that’s to say disliked by some viewers, for a extensive variety of causes, though most pre-modern controversies are dimly recorded, or completely lost to a modern view. Iconoclasm is the destruction of art that’s disliked for a big selection of causes, together with religious ones. Aniconism is a general dislike of either all figurative photographs, or often simply non secular ones, and has been a thread in many Art main religions. It has been an important issue in the history of Islamic art, where depictions of Muhammad stay especially controversial. Much art has been disliked purely as a result of it depicted or otherwise stood for unpopular rulers, events or different teams. Artistic conventions have typically been conservative and taken very seriously by art critics, though usually a lot less so by a wider public.
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