IMO it&#x27;s a big mistake to feel that art should be above the viewer. Good art should be exactly at your level, speaking to <i>you</i> and enriching <i>you</i>. Given the choice between &quot;guilty pleasure&quot; and &quot;conspicuous consumption&quot;, good art should aim for the former. For example, the video game Loom speaks to me, the webcomic Homestuck speaks to me, the drawings of M.C. Escher (derided by the artistic world at the time) speak to me. Modern art doesn&#x27;t speak to me at all, I feel like it&#x27;s talking to someone else who died a while ago.