It's interesting that changes in visual art away from the purely representative to things like impressionist, expressionist, Dada-ism and pure abstract didn't raise the same kind of objections as atonal music.  Although there was some bad feeling from the traditionalists to impressionism I think that was just the usual "old folks don't like change" type.

Does this mean that things that offend our ears are inherently more palpably painful than things we look at?
