Verging on religious issues, Amos? Too right! as the Aussies are supposed to say. When I praise a work of art and my neighbor disparages it, that neighbor drops down in my list of favorite people. The correct view should be "To each, his own," but it seldom is.
Like all good tourists in Paris, I went to the Louvre. I saw a number of pictures that were significant to me and some I still remember. "Mona Lisa" wasn't one of them- it looked like it had been badly restored and probably was. There were also those galleries of monster-sized heroic military paintings by French artists. They deserved archival storage in the catacombs, but not public exhibition. To me, they said something about the French, mush as the French Academy does. Now I guess I have tred on sensibilities verging on the religious.