They don’t understand that there is intention behind art

I have had a conversation with someone about visual arts about something quite close to this: they just didn’t grok any parts of it at all, couldn’t engage with it a priori. on being given some context about each of the thing they managed to find it interesting, but prior to that they would have just walked right past it barely even registering its existence

(at least in this case the person was aware of their non-engagement, whereas I think a lot of the autoplag appreciators just … aren’t)