I am so tired of crap. seen as A R T! It's not! Never will be! Yes Gallery and Art pundits/ bandits make lotsa money! Pushing this nonsense. It's my opinion! Art schools add to this potpourri and garbage. Knowing they have no real talent or true values and appreciation, need to push this, in order to make great tuition fees..
Calm down, dear. Just because you've used a bunch of exclamation points, it doesn't give your opinion any more weight.
Actually, the *first* time someone does something like this, it really *is* art, even if you don't like it. If the concept has value in commenting on our society--including the overinflated *monetary* values that result when the super-rich start seeing art as a commodity and investment vehicle instead of for its beauty--then it is valid. Although, of course, you're free to not take the message, and/or to decide you don't like the work itself, whatever its message. People have been complaining about art like this well before Duchamp showed his Fountain; to hear the academics talk, Impressionism was an abomination.
In fact, in this case, the demand for repayment, and the whole court case are part of the art. The clue is in the title of the work.
Yeah, it may not be art that floats your boat, and it may not fit your narrow definition of what art is. But I actually like it better than, say, Thomas Kinkade--which is far too many people's understanding of *art*--and it carries far more meaning.
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