Art teaches you to think outside the box. In my discussion in module six, Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) was abstract and avant-garde, a completely new art style unheard of in America. When change first happens, there is typically always backlash. People do not like change and immediately consider foreign ideas to be written off as “weird” or unlikeable. But as time wears on and someone says something good about it, people follow like a herd and open their minds little by little. Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party was thought to be untasteful, but the feminist movement of the 20th century sparked a reconsideration of gender roles (MindEdge 4.13). What is considered ideal beauty, and what is appropriate or not, can be seen
