Art is like cheese or wine, to understand it - they need to "eat up." If you have been drinking only Crimean sweet wines and eating Poshekhon cheese all your life, and then your friends brought you fragrant mold cheese and a bottle of Spanish Ribera del Duero, you will most likely start spitting, saying: "What a nasty thing these delicacies of yours!" The same with art - as soon as you start peering or listening to classical art, you will be increasingly attracted to something avant-garde or modern. Book "Art for boys. On the shelves" is a great start for getting acquainted with the history of art, both foreign and domestic, not limited to one genre alone. Everything called art is collected here: sculpture and architecture, painting and music. You will "taste" selected works from primacy to the 20th century and warm your appetite for new volumes.