Modern Art-Shocking and Scaring

            I was scared and shocked exactly as how the instructor had named the homework assignment. I was always questioning "Is it really art?" and forcing me to believe that it was while I was watching the videos. I saw those pieces of arts as where the artists could express their crazy thinkings. They used their works to prove what they could do even though it was forbidden or disapproved by the Bible and societies. Certainly, not all of those works broadcasted on these videos were embarrasing. They could be really shocked at the time it was published, but when the time went on, audience have changed their perspectives due to the influences of time and society, of what are norms and not norms. For example, the book containing of shocking and scaring pictures discribing the sorrows that people must have suffered from may trigger waves of condemnation from the society. However, nowaday, audience may understand how horrible lives people at that time must have experienced because of the work.
            Nevertheless, coming from Asian culture, pieces of art of extreme sexuality are highly unacceptable to me. Therefore, my feelings were strongly affected.
            The artists mentioned in those Modern Art series fulfilled two roles of art. First, they help the audience look at the world in new ways, such as the model of human body. Second, they recorded what was happening at their places and their time, such as the book consisting of horrible pictures talking about the war.
           Whether the public fund should go to funding the making of those shocking art? To answer that question, the question "Who is able to decide those pieces of art are approved or disapproved?" should be first considered. Those artists love creating art with their own purposes and creativity. They should better receive the rewards for their efforts. You may not like their works, but some other may. Therefore, people  who desire to contribute, let them do. Who are able to force you to enjoy the ones that you naturally really dont want to?