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tbh i would have thrown it away even if i knew it was “art”

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Sounds like museums and art centers aren’t your thing.

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i love museums and art centers.

the great thing about art is everyone is free to define it how they want, and no one is wrong.

“art” to you, “garbage” to me

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Good. That’s not art. That’s trash. Throw the “artist” in the bin while you’re at it.

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There’s always someone arguing about the purity of art. Art doesn’t have a strict set of rules. Anything can be art. Saying otherwise limits it’s ability.

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Saying anything is art doesn’t make it art. If I throw a couple beer cans on the ground, that’s not art just because I say it is, it’s trash. In this particular case the artist hand painted the labels, which I wasn’t aware of when I commented. So, this is art, despite the quirky presentation.

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If the piece designed to make you think about it then it’s art. That’s the only requirement. It can take as little or as much effort as the artist wants. There is not effort, cost, or material requirement for art. Yeah, just throwing cans on the ground isn’t art, but if you place cans in a way to make someone consider the thoughtlessness or waste of society, that’s art.

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The labels on the cans were hand painted with acrylic, so there was more effort put in to this installation than if they just grabbed some beers at the local convenience store and dumped them out.

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8 points

That’s different then. My bad.

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3 points

Good times are symbolized by littering alcohol cans?

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To be fair, I feel like that’s kind of what the artist was hoping for. Would you be reading about his piece if some Philistine with no concept of what constitutes art hadn’t thrown it away?

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Art exists solely as it is interpreted by the observer.

In this case, the observer interrupted the art as trash.

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I believe this kind of art should embrace the impermanence. The concept is more valuable than the object.

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