It's probably important to have realistic interpretation because then the artist's audience can actually relate to it. The role of the artist has change ( if any) may have been the fact that now not only do they speak for themselves, their art now expresses other people's feelings too that can not express on their own.
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Answer: It depends on what the artist emphasizes.
Explanation:
Everyone has his own interpretation of any thing that we see in real life, so also every artist has his way of displaying the imagery and importance using art,
What one artist may emphasizes on may be different from what the another artist does.