[foobarbazqux]

Okay, fair point. I'll revise: the job of an artist is to break the rules intelligently.

Also, I think you're conflating legality and morality. I can think of situations for all 8 cases of (legal|illegal)(moral|immoral)(agree|disagree). However, you're probably right that agreement/disagreement influences morality judgments.

[pfortuny]

So probably neither Raphael nor obviously Murillo nor Gongora nor probably any romantic poet were artists. Not to talk about the Egyptians.

I do not know about Shakespeare 'breaking' any rules, or any pre-XIX Century painter. Or the Greeks, you know? What rules did the Parthenon's architect break? Or the sculptor of the Laocoon group?

The 'breaking rules' stuff is all very well for some things but it is not the definition of art. Please.

(Spanish examples because I am a Spaniard, but you understand).

Edit: romantical/romantic.

[foobarbazqux]

Incivility is against the guidelines, I don't want to argue with it.