We most deeply appreciate any of the arts when we have an understanding of the language(s) that underlies their creation. We think of ourselves as primarily a culture of the word and build our educational system on then. In fact, we are also a culture of the image. We are swimming in them daily.
Since American education is so thin on teaching the visual language, many people have a relatively superficial appreciation for visual art. They don’t ask more of it than that it be pleasant decoration. As a result, the visual world is not explored as a source of aesthetic richness or complex storytelling, but a means of seduction for commercial ends.
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