Personally I take a rather maximalist definition of art. If you self-identify as an artist and do something with the sole intention of it being art, then it is

Personally I take a rather maximalist definition of art. If you self-identify as an artist and do something with the sole intention of it being art, then it is art. It can be ugly, boring, derivative, uninspiring and trivial, none of that makes it any less 'art', it just makes it bad art.