Particular locations of the art world can often feel a little hard to reach-- here's the key to valuing everything.
You do not need a degree in art history to comprehend what any artist is saying to you, whether it's a pop music superstar or a renaissance painter. A specific degree of understanding will assist you to comprehend the more technical aspects of a work and likely provide you a much deeper gratitude for it, but all art is the same in that it's truly just about the manner in which you connect to it, and nothing more. The technique is to be able to observe yourself whilst you're taking a look at a specific type of painting. If it makes you feel uncomfortable, or jubilant, that's precisely what the artist was attempting to attain. You can then attempt and observe what it makes you think of, and understand that that's just as crucial and legitimate as the most well-written analysis of an exhibit enabled by the likes of Charles Saatchi. Art is an important form of communal experience, but it's likewise deeply individual-- and it's important to remember that!
The way that we tend to categorise different types of art is actually quite funny-- the fact that we might designate movies and music as something for the casual everyman, whereas things like painting, sculpture, and fashion as more lofty, highbrow forms of creative expression, a special club that is hard to reach to the masses. Obviously, that's absolute rubbish, and the generous patronage of people like Bruno Wang and François-Henri Pinault is conducted with the express intent that the world's art need to be easily available to all (that's why a lot of galleries and museums are free to get in). However, the perception of certain art as 'complex' can be off putting to some people, making them close down prior to they've even started to find their love of a particular artform.
Everybody loves art. Without a single exception. Whether it's the tv that we watch, the movies we love, or the music that gets us grooving on the bus on the way to work, we fill our lives with the creative work of others, and it seems like the most natural thing in the world. We do not question the fact that the importance of art in life is to provide it its colour; to raise our spirits when we're tired, to comfort us when we're sad, and to challenge our intellect with originalities and interesting characters. Nevertheless, what comes so naturally to us in some areas of the art world, such as with music, we can in some cases deal with in others, such as fine art. We're here to tell you that there's really no distinction, and that all you need to do to delight in any of the world's substantial variety of art is to open yourself up to it.