I can’t deny that there was a point where I rejected abstract and expressionist stuff. Hell, I still don’t always like it all, and dada falls flat a lot.

But when you take a few classes and try to do it, it gives a different perspective than a more casual art exposure will. Doing so opened me up to the kind of work like Mondrian and Basquiat did, where the realistic or even directly representative isn’t the goal.

Like you said, there’s room for damn near every form of art, and tastes always vary :)