/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>7060512
I'm rooting around various public domain sites for artwork to look at and absorb.
This is in service of rethinking my idea of art, how it works and how it is learned. Like others, I can to this practice via cartoons, anime, games etc. This of course colors how I view images and what they touch in a man. I want to expand my horizons beyond that, but I'm having a hard time parsing master paintings. Even pieces I do think are impressive, I can only look at in a shallow, surface level fashion. The experience made me realize that I frankly did not understand the meanings of the words "good", "beautiful" and "masterpiece" in the context of art. Does it mean that a piece is realistic? That it takes a lot of skill? That it conveys a message?

It makes me want to go back and really try and understand the craft I've been spending so much time with beyond trying to get good at it. I feel like there's something fundamentally missing from how I experience the arts.