You know I have to represent. :)

Seriously tho, art for the sake of art does not change minds IMO. It's the relationship between art (the media message) and the viewer.

For this post I am "retextualizing" the article "Texts and Constructed Meaning" by Daniel Chandler:

Art cannot speak for itself: it needs a viewer as well as the artist who makes the work.

Individuals can either accept, modify, ignore or reject the work, according to their experience, attitudes and purposes. This whole attitudinal spectrum towards meaning- making with art parallels that relating to the nature of reality: ranging from objectivism, via intersubjectivity, to subjectivism.