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Seems like you're criticizing the powers that be that act as authorities for what should be considered art. The importance of this kind of criticism has been historically recognized by many artists and cultures for a long time [1][2][3][4][5][6], and will obviously continue to be relevant, so it's actually constructive that you brought it up even if you didn't mean for it to be so. But I think the most important thing to realize is that "art" isn't a monolithic thing — it means different things to different people. For some artworks are profitable commodities and socioeconomic status symbols, and for others its an anti-positivist exploration of what it means to be human. What it "really" is is an ongoing struggle between such differing points of view.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_des_Refus%C3%A9s [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp) [3] https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81384?locale=en [4] https://blogs.uoregon.edu/hanshaacke/2015/02/16/shapolsky-et... [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auOKsXnMmkg [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diy_culture#Music

You may be interested in seeing art from a different perspective.

http://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r2/index.htm...

George Spencer-Brown is math, not art.

This is the first time I had heard of George Spencer-Brown and his primary algebra. At first glance, it looks like C.S.Peirce's existential graphs, without the quantifiers.

To which community are you signalling virtue?

Hah not sure why you got down voted so heavily. Your post is spot on and respectfully witty.

Off-topic rambling confounding art with the art industry. This is a website giving access to paintings.

Only insecure or needy craftsmen need the approval of some elite to feel like they're artists. Same with people seeing no value in art pieces and feeling rejected because some other people see value in them.