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There is no trick to appreciating it, just that people that own work by a particular artist have a vested interest in talking that artist up and getting others
by itronitron 6y ago
There is no trick to appreciating it, just that people that own work by a particular artist have a vested interest in talking that artist up and getting others to 'appreciate it.'
The best advice I can give is to spend time with a particular work of art.
Go to a museum or gallery, pick a specific painting or sculpture, and then come back to visit the same work of art multiple times, preferably on different days of the week, at different times and under different lighting conditions.
A good work of art will show you something different every time you visit.
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- acjohnson55 6y agoRespectfully, I think you're missing an important piece here. Much modern and contemporary art is not going to speak to most people on its own. Art serves as a physical token of something bigger -- a shared experience of culture, time, place, narrative, or whatever. Sometimes, the technical craftsmanship of the piece is self-evident. Sometimes, it's not. Sometimes, the craftsmanship, or lack thereof, is completely beside the point. One of the things that really changed my experience of art was doing guided tours at museums. Invariably, I come away with insights that would not have come to me, no matter how long or how many occasions I might have visited a piece.