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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The urinal is not art. The reaction to the urinal is art on a mastercraft level. No one has quite reached the same level of artistry since. You can duct tape a banana to a wall, but it just doesn't create the same outrage as the urinal did.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago

Did we read the same series of posts? I thought they made it very clear that the urinal is art and explained how the reaction was desired and how the artist tried to create that reaction?

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So what you mean to say is: "Trolling is a art."

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

*an art.
(Unless your trolling grammer nazis.)

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

art can have function and vice versa. A door handle is art. A lightswitch is art. They were designed and manufactured. Do(e) A Deer from the Sound of Music is just the most basic scale in music theory pretty much in chromatic order. It's still a song. Same for the Alphabet song, it's lyrics are just the alphabet, it's still art.

Toilets are also art. If you really wanted a toilet that had no artistry at all it'd be an uneven hole in the floor made with a hammer.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think that would then be performance art.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

How about piss christ?