why do people argue over the definition of art its actually such a low iq thing to care about. the great works from the past weren't preserved because they were "real art" they were preserved because they were beautiful and they elevated human existence. there will always be assholes trying to derive meaning from terrible garbage like piss jesus or the banana taped to the wall, pretentiousness is just innate to the human spirit. the ancient roman version of piss jesus certainly existed, you wanna know why we dont remember it? because it was fucking forgotten like the forgettable junk that it is, and all the people who got meaning from it were also forgotten like the forgettable assholes they were. if some fag wants to call a cinder block he found outside art, let him. there is a real lack of good art being made nowadays though and maybe thats what people get concerned over, but its just a side effect of everything being worse. the quality of our art is determined by the quality of our lives, our lives are all collectively made shitty on purpose so we produce less great works and stray further from God or something yeah,.
>did you guys know that the ancients' lives were actually terrible unlivable nightmares? yeah put that in your pipe and smoke it hateful chuds... stop glorifying a society that didnt even have toilets...
>oh why did they produce so much great art? well theyre lives were just so shitty that they had to do something to distract themselves or something yeah ahahhaha! our lives are so great now that we have no time to create anything that elevates the human spirit! yeah that sounds right