My art education was a BFA from a small university, specializing in graphic design. I.e., nothing special. But I very quickly lost (whatever little) interest in the local “art scene”. It seemed to consist mostly of two types:
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Unemployed self-important name-dropper tortured artistes who saw far more value in their work than virtually anyone else.
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Middle-aged Junior Leaguers with too much free time on their hands, who hung around the local museum, drank coffee and wine spritzers, discussed “Art”, planned their next social event and probably needed – more than anything else – an actual job.
Despite the semi-snarky sound of that, I have no problem with art expression that’s outside the norm, etc. (as long as it’s not truly off the rails in a societal / moral sense). I’m not tied to literal realism, “proper” art and so forth. For example, using @Soupy’s example upthread, I have no problem with Duchamp’s “Fountain”, but I also have little interest in it. If someone else came along and did the same, it would be worthlessly derivative, but at least Duchamp can say he was the first. If someone else likes it, fine (really). Kind of the “You call that art? My six year old could’ve done that!!” criticism to which the answer is, “Yeah but he didn’t”… I get that, but it doesn’t mean I have to like it all. Kinda like Vasarely’s op art – Initially interesting to a degree but not what I’d want to ingest on a continual basis.
Anyway, what I got primarily tired of in the local scene was the thin veneer of Art covering boredom, immaturity and lack of creativity. Bob Ross was far more honest. If you wanna paint ducks tipping in over a lake, then by all means enjoy yourself. They may even be very good, beautiful paintings. Just don’t try to pass them off as groundbreaking major works if / when they’re not.
Then again after 16 years in “creative” work (more or less), I took a hard turn into IT for the next 24. So much for art, eh? 
It appears I’ve kinda settled on some level of photography as my creative avenue. Trying to play guitar with (in any musical context) nearly non-existent pitch recognition pretty much ruled out music, my best choice.