There's an objective reality to beauty and you can train yourself to pay attention to the tiny details that make up something beautiful. Almost anyone can! You already see these tiny details subconsciously, which is what triggers your aesthetic reaction in the first place.
Moving from that to conscious appreciation can be done in a few different ways. One way is to analyze the thing that you are experiencing while you are experiencing it. But you might resist doing that because you are afraid that it will diminish or spoil the experience.
Another way is by educating yourself, for instance by reading what the critics have to say. The problem with that is that's second-hand thinking and, although it will add to your knowledge, it won't necessarily deepen your understanding, or enable you to form your own opinions and have your own thoughts about what you are experiencing.
And yet another way is exposing yourself to vast quantities of art that's always a little bit above your head and which you don't really like because you don't understand it yet. This last way of doing it won't really get you to conscious appreciation exactly, because it's still your subconscious mind which has to do the work of breaking it down for you so that you can understand it, but the process will happen, and the fact that your tastes will inevitably evolve over time will be your proof that it is happening.
One advantage to this last method is that you can't be attacked by your less-articulating peers for being an over-intellectualizing soulless robot, because you won't be able to talk coherently about art any more than they do. You will have better tastes but you still won't know what the hell is going on. The first two methods can expose you to dismissive passive-aggression such as "music is to be listened to, not talked about" or even smarter catchier ones like "talking about art is like dancing about architecture". You know they'll be projecting, but it will still bleed your ears to hear it.
There's an objective reality to beauty and you can train yourself to pay attention to the tiny details that make up something beautiful. Almost anyone can! You already see these tiny details subconsciously, which is what triggers your aesthetic reaction in the first place.
Moving from that to conscious appreciation can be done in a few different ways. One way is to analyze the thing that you are experiencing while you are experiencing it. But you might resist doing that because you are afraid that it will diminish or spoil the experience.
Another way is by educating yourself, for instance by reading what the critics have to say. The problem with that is that's second-hand thinking and, although it will add to your knowledge, it won't necessarily deepen your understanding, or enable you to form your own opinions and have your own thoughts about what you are experiencing.
And yet another way is exposing yourself to vast quantities of art that's always a little bit above your head and which you don't really like because you don't understand it yet. This last way of doing it won't really get you to conscious appreciation exactly, because it's still your subconscious mind which has to do the work of breaking it down for you so that you can understand it, but the process will happen, and the fact that your tastes will inevitably evolve over time will be your proof that it is happening.
One advantage to this last method is that you can't be attacked by your less-articulating peers for being an over-intellectualizing soulless robot, because you won't be able to talk coherently about art any more than they do. You will have better tastes but you still won't know what the hell is going on. The first two methods can expose you to dismissive passive-aggression such as "music is to be listened to, not talked about" or even smarter catchier ones like "talking about art is like dancing about architecture". You know they'll be projecting, but it will still bleed your ears to hear it.