Art encompasses everything. It's such a broad topic that it can be found in the strangest places, like the structural wall of a house built from beer cans. Artists are always trying to push the boundaries and think outside the canvas, so to speak. After all, why create art that has already been made? The inherent problem is that now, because so much has already been done, everyone wants an excuse to call anything art. Worse yet: Society etiquette teaches us that we should accept it because of its status as “art.” It tells us that we should at least appreciate the attempts at one work of art over the other. This can be good and it can be very, very bad. If someone collects dirt in a cup and places it on a stool in an art gallery, why should this be called art? Just because it's in an art gallery? Or maybe because the cup of dirt was placed there by a self-proclaimed artist. In reality, the earth cup is not art, but a sad attempt to use our cultural mercy as a gateway to acceptance. The title expletive is used as an adjective rather than a statement. The idea of ​​art that has not only transcended the norm into society's accepted boundaries, but has broken into a realm visited by wide-eyed, gasped-eyed people is not a bad thing as long as there is some measure of ingenuity or effort. If I rip off my left arm and tie it to the wall and call it art, there will be wide eyes and gasps, but it's not art. It is a pathetic attempt to cross the line without using ingenuity or effort, and counting on the leniency of society to accept it. You could say that Duchamp's Fountain is simply an upside-down urinal. Why is this art? Because he takes traditional art in all its social conditions... middle of paper... what if the sixteenth boy was drawing similar landscapes with human feces? Despite the health consequences (and the disgusting nature of this art), his idea is still considered ingenious and definitely attracts attention. As it stands, the attention he attracts may not be the most civilized, but I can promise his following would (sadly) increase if he were serious, and he's definitely grabbing his fellow airbrushers by the throat and saying that blunt, well-known phrase . It may not seem like art to us now, but neither does Fountain. In conclusion, it is important that art continues to be measured by its effort and ingenuity to be considered art. Otherwise our cultural sinews will weaken and give way to the unmistakable infiltration of nonsense and spontaneous rubbish. We should accept all art as long as there is some semblance of effort or ingenuity.