If a fucking banana nailed to a wall can be art literally fucking anything can be art.
The artist in this case is entirely right just like every other artist who has done this same stunt.
Art gate keeping is a tale as old as time and every time those who gate keep are the most pretentious assfucks around.
cabbage@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
I wouldn’t say art is subject to facts in this way. Some of us enjoy art that is produced through skill and intention rather than some idiot shitting in a jar. The meta debate is just one incredibly lame branch of art that incompetent snobs manically jerk off to while outbidding each other for a fucking banana.
Of course, context matters for interpretation. Guernica is a more meaningful piece with the background of civil war; dadaism only makes sense in opposition to fascism. But both depend on skill and intent to become impressive, not merely the meta context of positioning in art history.
I hate this discussion and I hate that by interacting with it some idiot in a beret will tell me “AHA! So it did provoke you!!”, as if they were making a point or ever had an original thought in their lives.
Opposition to this bullshit is not a problem of the “tech world”, it’s a problem of the art world having obsessed over the same idiotic joke for a hundred years because it’s harder to appreciate something that contains genuine intent and talent than it is to pretend like you understand the genius of stapling a piece of crap to the wall of a gallery.
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Did you get your entire idea of the art world from memes or something?