On the other hand, some modern visual art that many people think makes no sense, makes perfect sense despite that many people have no interest in it, take no time to consider it, expect to be able to watch baseball without knowing how it's played.

   Most people who expect art to cater to their pedestrian idea of what it should be don't care much about it even when it does cater to them. Why should any artists devote themselves to pleasing people who don't much care, anyway?

   19th century universities taught drawing as a basic skill of educated people, now it's somehow an artsy talent.

   I'm somewhere in the middle of these opposed views. It's nice if your work can reach a variety of people, it's great, or--let's say it is--but it's not a crime if it doesn't. You can't control how your stuff is received.