It's not rare for me to hear how art is not supposed to be commercial, or how you are not supposed to be trying to please everybody because art has to be made with that out of mind. While that sounds pertinent and I admire the sincerity of the artist more than anything, I can't dismiss the fact that only recently that this anti-commercial, elitist view of art has been popularized.
I once had classes with a professor who was a renowned expert on Shakespeare, and he always told us how in his pieces he always had elements that were there to please all of his audience, from the peasants to the very king himself. It had elements for all classes, and everybody enjoyed his pieces, from drunks who slept in the mud to modern literary critics.
Whatever has happened to a display of art that gathers everybody in? I'm not saying the king and queen would ever be together with the peasants, maybe not even art can unstratify mankind. Also, of course the current modern society has much more varied tastes than a 17th century one, but I don't think it's impossible to make something everybody can enjoy, as ambitious and foolish as it may sound.
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