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I agree with roachboy. The art-or-crap thing is silly, because who gives them the arbitrary authority to decide whether or not something is art?
I personally don't think taking common items and just putting them in an art gallery is art. I think that is just someone trying to "do something new", but it isn't art. It's not that a can of soup can't be art (since all our brains are is neurons firing in patterns, what makes one object of the world such as a painting art whereas a can of soup not), its just that trying to "do something new" isn't necessarily a guarantee of producing art.
To me, an object of art isn't something that one would just forget about moments later.
Art should, I believe, exemplify beauty (even if it is the beauty of ugliness..) - but this is just my criteria for art. For example, I like music that is pleasing to listen to, rather than "just something new" consisting of metal sounds and odd noises. I like art that is pleasing to look at and has depth. Therefore, much modern art is boring to me, because it lacks one of those two qualities.
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