I think you sell pop art a bit short. I'm venturing into a topic for which I'm ill qualified, but I've learned to appreciate art more when I worked harder at getting past the notion that art is supposed to be beautiful or humankind's finest expression and worked harder to wrap my mind about what the artist is communicating.

We visited the MoMa in NYC last year and I found myself thinking about the various pieces of art there, including some typical pop art, than I typically do after viewing, say, the Dutch Masters at the National Gallery of Art. We typically approach modern art the same way we approach a used car lot, with an extreme wariness of being played as a fool, but perhaps that's the wrong approach. Then again, I paid way too much for my last car too.