All art is subversive.
I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.
If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.