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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Not just food. Some people describe certain pieces of "art" as an aquired taste.
I just call it crap.
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That's rather dumb
Some great pieces of art can only be fully understood in the context of the tradition that precedes them. If you aren't aware of the subtle references and jokes they contain, you probably won't be able to appreciate them. Judging them to be "crap" because your own knowledge falls short, however, is really quite shallow.
It's a bit like a teen who tries to read a book by someone like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy or Céline, doesn't understand it, gets bored and decides the book is crap. Obviously, the teen in question is wrong - the problem isn't the book he tried to read, the problem is the teen himself.
The works of Gustav Mahler, James Joyce and Pablo Picasso aren't as accessible as those of Britney Spears, Dan Brown and Anne Geddes. However, judging the former to be of lesser artistic value than the latter for that reason would be sheer idiocy.