I am curious if either of you actually goes to see modern or contemporary art in person. I think it makes a difference in how you feel about it.

I never really understood Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko until I stood in front of their paintings. There just isn't any way a photo of their work can let you see it right - you miss the scale, you miss the dimensionality, you miss all sorts of important things about it. I found the difference particularly profound with Pollock, whose work does tend to look like a pile of multicolored spaghetti when you see a picture in a magazine, but it's true of any number of contemporary artists.