I think the fact that a lot of people hate contemporary art has a lot to do with the fact that most people aren’t taught a whole lot about art history. The last movement most people generally like is surrealism (and then generally only the representational painting stuff, never the found object stuff) because I think that’s often stuff responding to the last bit of art history they’re generally familiar with.

Combine with like… bourgeois snobbery and feeling like you’re being laughed at for not being in on the joke, no wonder people are hostile.