So sad these people are down voting you.
IMNSHO if most 5 year old can do it, it's not art.
If you insist it is art, fine, it is very shitty art. Very good confidence trick though!
IMNSHO if most 5 year old can do it, it's not art.
If you insist it is art, fine, it is very shitty art. Very good confidence trick though!
You might watch a grandmaster chess game and think that you could make those moves. Or perhaps you see a solution to a traveling salesman decision problem and think "it's easy to see there exists a path that short". But in both cases you're mistaken. The moves you would have played wouldn't be as good as the grandmaster's. The path you would find wouldn't be as short. And the paint splotches you would throw on the canvas wouldn't look as compelling.
Yes, there does exist shitty "art"--things that you or your 5 year old could have done. But I suspect it's less common than you think.
It's just like nice furniture. I could saw up some lumber and nail it together, but nobody would ever look at it and throw money at me. Nice furniture takes years of learning to figure out how to make it.
I mean, just look at Fountain by Duchamp. The "Skill" isn't in the production of the object involved, it's in the wit or thought of the artist.
1: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/06/14/famous-urinal-fountain-...
You can often hear this with statements like, "Picasso just drew cubes! Anyone can do that!"
Yes, anyone can do that.
There was a guard near it, too, watching me, making sure I didn't approach closer than a line taped on the floor.
I could almost hear the artist laughing at the gullibility of the modern art patrons.