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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9342749" data-attributes="member: 177">But this presumes, "Why was is composed this way?" is the primary question of interest.  With every question of interpretation comes a context, an implicit or explicit reason for asking the question.  Not all viewpoints are equally valuable to all contexts.Not knowing a whole lot about guitar work, I'll bring this back around to the artwork that's the focus of this thread. Say you are a 14-year old today, playing the game, but also, in your life, dealing with all the questions of gender roles and sexuality that 14-year-olds have to deal with, and possibly struggling with some LGTBQ+ feelings.Larry Elmore was born in 1948, so grew up in the 1950s, in his mid-thirties when he painted the work, and now 75 years old.  Is his original intent stated today the one that 14-year-old should consider primary as the art inevitably influences their conception of what is or isn't an acceptable male or female form in art?I would say, "Probably not."  Maybe that artist's conception would best be put in the "one of many" column for that teen.This reads as if you are really trying hard to dismiss the fact that creators are human, with limited perspective.  Whether or not is it impossible for a creator to have missed something... humans miss things.  A lot. Indeed, humans are often heavily blindered by their own preconceptions, especially when that preconception is close to their sense of self.  So, when a creator has poured a lot of themselves into a work is a situation in which we should expect them to miss stuff about it.</blockquote>

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