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I’d expect an artist to know that a mural is just art applied to a wall. That includes frescos like The Last Supper.

Usually artists also don’t police and get so angry about other people’s self expression.

If you might be an artist then where's your portfolio? There's no links in your profile, zero HN submissions. Put up or shut up.

The NYC gallery scene started bestowing art-ness upon people who became known for the work they painted on the city's walls around... exactly forty years ago, I looked up Kieth Haring as a random example and galleries started showing his work in 1983.

>"I studied art in university, am an artist myself" Garbage argument.

Why? I would assume "what is art?" is a subject on which much time is spent in art school.

That's not a question for artists, but philosophers of art, which, of course, artists can also do, but generally, most artists are really bad at philosophy.

University begins with philosophy so the question would indeed have been asked.

To be fair you definitely do sound like an “artist”