The complexity, and often the frank incomprehensibility of contemporary art and, in general, any artistic practice, seems to me a consequence of two directly opposite reasons.
On the one hand - this is the desire for originality, exclusivity. The desire to separate from the crowd of imitators - to achieve an individual voice and influence.
On the other hand, there is a process of creating a group of sympathizers. It is necessary to feel comfortable difficulties and problems of "creative loneliness"))
The modern concept of art - individualism - fully corresponds to this concept. Modern individualism denies the concept of the old art - art as a craft, where the methods and techniques of old masters allowed to live a common creative life.
But individualism generates totalitarianism, when the self-proclaimed comes to replace the authorities, which were tested by time. However, the time for the triumph of the new leader does not last long. This is a conquest for one day. In the morning one more will come ...