Why it should be universal? As artist you don't have to be approachable. It's the same with reataurants. When you get to the top top tiers the food is not alwa

Why it should be universal? As artist you don't have to be approachable. It's the same with reataurants. When you get to the top top tiers the food is not always pleasant. It is interesting, it is experience and you have to be very open and educated to enjoy it. Yes art has become much more about interesting ideas, concepts and contexts. You need to be art educated to enjoy it and big part of it is also failed bullshit. Around Rothko times art world started to move this way because they just needed to go further and deeper. They needed new direction. It is really hard to come up with new original ideas all the time (so hard in fact that current art world is in crisis and nobody knows where to go next). Few other points: - Rothko is just much darker artist. The emotional response people have to his work is not happy compared to Monet. Maybe thats why people don't like him so much. - Rothko has still became one of the most popular artists. Try some artists 30 years after Rothko to see thehuge difference. - Calling abstract painters "just drip some paint on canvas" is like saying about programmers "just typing something on a screen".