re: #108 LudwigVanQuixote

Speaking of art. I really do not know how to get into a you know it when you see it discussion in any meaningful way. But just to put things in perspective, the following sculpture sold for 15.2 million.

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IMHO not art.

In fact, I will lay down Ludwigs rules of thumb for not art.

1. If I can easily do it in 60 minutes or make something indistinguishable from it in 60 minutes, it is not art.

2. If the average five year old can make it - or something indistinguishable from it - in less that 60 minutes, it is not art.

3. If the majority of the work is sampled and almost directly regurgitated, something like taking someone else’s art, and crumpling it or whatever, it is not art.

4. If it is just silly and tasteless and shows no particular talent, but none the less has a passel of fools telling you how “deep a comment on the metaphysical realties of modern society” it is, it is definitely not art.

Works by Picasso, Duchamp, Pollock, Bacon, Diane Arbus (photography), Warhol and Jeff Koons (to name a very few) fall into the above categories. Basically, your criteria nuke an enormous amount of 20th Century art.