I took me time to understand and appreciate abstract art. But I think, once you do it, you see in it a more direct conexion with the fellings and emotions. A lot of the hate for it (in my opinion) comes from the comercial art market and people trying to sell ideas for tons of $ when they just looks like meaningless splatts. Most of people don´t understand it and just hate it for that.
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Yeah that's a good point, I have been to the modern art museums here and it's funny but some of the pieces resonate and others not so much but I can't put my finger on why exactly. There were a few that were just a circle on a plain background type of thing and I think some people. Perceive that as taking the easy route to art and maybe think it is too low effort?
Yes, thinking they´re low effort might be a very big point for hatred, thinking "I can do that to, why does he or she deserve to be in an art gallery an not me". But I think the mayor point is that the context of the piece is usually missing. You don´t happen to see the mind, life, effort, struggle or evolution of the artist unleast you look for it or have studied it a bit. If you look some of the later Mondrian work, for example, you might like it or not, but you´ll probably see only color squares. Is when you look for his previous work, when you can see the evolution of his art and appreciate it more easily. And I´m not saying that studying the whole career of and artist is the only way to apprecciate it, what I´m saying is that you´ve to look for something that it´s probably not presented whithin the artwork itself, being the motivations, the struggles, or the mood of the artist in that time.