Making and enjoying art are both emotional acts, often deeply so. Producing something of beauty for an audience to experience can be like offering an embrace or a kiss, an act that gives the viewer a sense of warmth. Much art aims to stimulate the viewer in quite the opposite way, inciting anger at injustice, fear or disgust at the revelation of something uncomfortable. Given the power of communication contained in a work of art it is not too far of a stretch to say that at least for the short term it creates a relationship between artist and audience. Once we understand this, we see there is a degree of vulnerability in the act of sharing art, just as in all other types of human relationships, that can either be honored or violated.
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