Duchamp's Fountain should be exhibited in the bathroom

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everything is art if people call them so. The thing is, the beauty of the urinal comes not only from how beautiful it looks, but also that you could use it.
I don’t think I’m allowed to pee in the urinal lol
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That is the problem. Being able to pee in it is a part of the art, or should be. Imagine looking at a cake and not being able to eat it, then imagine millions of millionaires buy a CAKE only to look at it and not eat it. It loses its purpose.

The Mona Lisa is for looking. A urinal is for peeing. As much as it is a sculpture, it is an urinal and nobody can deny that.


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Also put it in an aristocratic restroom or teach the locals some manners. We are using its beauty, not smashing it to pieces. I would expect the urinal smashed if it was given to idiots.
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It’s fake art imo cause it doesn’t take effort unlike the Picassos and Monets of the world.

This is literally a less than 5 minute thing. Such a shame. Dadaism is a joke
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It may carry less art value than the most intricate sculpture, but it wouldn't be correct to call them fake art.
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So, what isn't art?

Or more precisely, what cannot be art?


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So, what isn't art?

Or more precisely, what cannot be art?
Art must be artificial, that's what the word means.  So Nature cannot be art.  Plants and animals cannot be art.  Rocks and water cannot be art.  But any of these can be made into art.  The distinction between art and mere manufacture lies in the heart of the artist and that artist's surrender to divinity.  Neither audiences nor critics can know for certain what is art.  No particular medium must be art or can't be art.  Art is made art by the heart of the artist.

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I 'suppose the insides of cave, stalactites, stalagmites, glittering crystals, aren't 'art.
'Are pretty to look at though.
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urinals are fucking weird
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urinals are fucking weird
Doesn't stop people from viewing it art. Some people find naked men carved out of stone weird too.

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Dadaism is fake art imo
How did you manage to reach that conclusion ?
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Neither audiences nor critics can know for certain what is art.  No particular medium must be art or can't be art.  Art is made art by the heArt of the artist.
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Any object can be displayed by any person or organization for any reason.
Should it though?
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PLEASE PROTECT US FROM MEDICAL MISINFORMATION

PLEASE PROTECT US FROM FINANCIAL MISINFORMATION

PLEASE PROTECT US FROM RELIGIOUS MISINFORMATION

PLEASE PROTECT US FROM EMOTIONAL MISINFORMATION

PLEASE PROTECT US FROM SCIENTIFIC MISINFORMATION

PLEASE PROTECT US
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How did you manage to reach that conclusion ?
Anyone could do it
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How did you manage to reach that conclusion ?
Anyone could do it
Are you certain ?

Why don't you give it a try ?

Heck, you might be the next Banksy.
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Are you certain ?

Why don't you give it a try ?
I have many times. But no one wants to listen to me
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I have many times. But no one wants to listen to me
That's the trick.

Getting famous.
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Dadaism may not be exquisitely efforted art, but some still consider it beautiful.
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Dadaism just represents a generation of artists that got lazy, realize they couldn't top the artists that worked at their society's zenith, and decided to dissect the concept of 'art' instead. It's just a symptom of a failing society, one that's moved from creation and expansion to internal criticism and decay. Nothing that the West creates with its dying gasp will be remembered centuries now, unless as bizarre curiosities. Nobody will ever treat it as seriously as people do at this moment. It's a blip on a dying culture's cardiogram, not some sort of profound innovation.

  The eyes are not here
    There are no eyes here
    In this valley of dying stars
    In this hollow valley
    This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms