Comment by wredcoll

This might shock you, but most art is made by artists. Artists also tend to spend lots of their time consuming other art. This informs the type of art they create.

Here's an anecdote: Pablo Picasso learned to paint realistic scenes, including humans, the equivalent of Da Vinci or Michelangelo, around the age of 17 or 18.

Where do you go from there? In his case, he went towards cubism and other such "modern art". Why do you suppose that is?