What is the appeal in low effort abstract art?

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There are many pieces of abstract art that I can see took a lot of time and effort to create and genuinely look cool, but then I see stuff like Jackson pollock’s splatter paintings (the floor of his studio looks like his painting) or like Mark Rothko who just drew colored rectangles. Or “Blood red mirror”? Why do people pay millions of dollars for something that looks like it took no effort to create?

Btw: I have little not involvement in the art community, I’ve just always been dumbfounded by stuff like this

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