"Art" - What is and what isn't

Behind Irvine High School, adorning the sound walls on I-5 are these obscenely expensive objets d'art, as some would have you believe.  (Photo attached)
Taxpayers footed the bill on this dreck to the tune of $5,000 per piece of plastic!  Who among those reading this would pay $5,000 for a cheesy plastic flower image, framed yet?

Definition of "art": " n.  - something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings"

In fact what many people call "art" is really artifice:  ar?ti?fice - ??rd?f?s - noun - clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others.  outright fakery
synonyms - trickery, deceit, deception, duplicity, guile, chicanery

Examples of artifice are attached.

Who cares.. 8)

David Spareth Saul's Life - Getty Center
Reverie - Getty Center
Salvator Mundi - The Savior of the World, by Leonardo Da Vinci

Important sentence added to first paragraph in OP.  The total number of pieces of "art" on I-5 like these cost almost a million dollars.  Don't you feel happier now to learn how your hard-earned money has been spent?

Modern art can be explained with the picture below.





Here is the link to the discussion.
https://np.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/8fd898/the_struggle/


A million dollars for the art on the freeway walls?  Sure why not.

This is akin to SC Judge Potter Stewarts reply to the question "what is hardcore pornography?"

"I'll know it when I see it".

Now swap the words "hardcore pornography" with "modern art" and apply the same standard. As long as tax payers are not subsidizing either "art" form, great. If it's of value it will thrive on it's own.

My .02c

Soylent Green Is People said:

If it's of value it will thrive on it's own.

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This is "of value" in your opinion?
Piss Christ?  Urine in a jar, with a crucifix inside?
$15,000 taxpayer subsidy

Rectal Bullwhip by Richard Mapplethorpe?  "Of  value"?

You may be misunderstanding. Without taxpayer subsidy, all of this nonsense would be gone. I don't support any of those pieces or their creators. Well, actually I do since my taxes are used for a great number of non-essential things. Blegh.

My .02c

Soylent Green Is People said:

You may be misunderstanding. Without taxpayer subsidy, all of this nonsense would be gone. I don't support any of those pieces or their creators.
My .02c

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Private collectors pay millions for crap under the Bigger Fool Theory.

No. 17A by Jackson Pollack
Purchased by a private hedge fund manager for $200,000,000

La Hara by Basquiat
Private collector paid $35,000,000

Many more at http://WhenCrapIsArt.blogspot.com