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> Keep execution, remove intent: you get bathroom decoration, which definitely isn't art. > Remove execution, keep intent: you get modern art, which is still
by Lio 5y ago
> Keep execution, remove intent: you get bathroom decoration, which definitely isn't art.
> Remove execution, keep intent: you get modern art, which is still art.
Remove the execution, keep intent: get bathroom fixtures more like. :P
See Marcel Duchamp's Fountain from 1917[1]. It's genius!
It's art simply because an artist says it's art.
(...but it's also just a urinal on its side, which is why it's genius).
1. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573