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by mabub24 1573 days ago
This is a topic where having knowledge of art history helps quite a lot. One could make an entire university course around the ways artists have grappled with perspective over time. Just coming to grips with the fact that linear perspective is something we learn to understand as "natural", as communicating a scene or image in such and such a way, despite it being an artistic technique for representing 3d shapes on a 2d surface from a fixed point(s) of view, can be a big way to get people over the hump and to appreciate non-representational art, or even just the works of 20th and 19th century modernist painters like Picasso or Cezanne.