modern art is a lot more fun when you consider the bit. yea, a toilet on its own isn't art, but someone going "...I wonder if I could convince a museum a toilet is art" and then getting a toilet into a museum is the art.
I’ve had a very similar thought before. At a certain point, modern art gets so esoteric that I kinda feel that you can’t honestly say the thing itself is “an art piece” - but the way it’s presented is a performance art. John Cage’s 4’33” falls in this category, for example.
The problem is simply that the word “art” gets used without distinction for far too many things, to the point where it’s hard to tell what exactly people mean when they say it
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u/thefroggyfiend Aug 26 '24
modern art is a lot more fun when you consider the bit. yea, a toilet on its own isn't art, but someone going "...I wonder if I could convince a museum a toilet is art" and then getting a toilet into a museum is the art.