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[โ€“] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

art can have function and vice versa. A door handle is art. A lightswitch is art. They were designed and manufactured. Do(e) A Deer from the Sound of Music is just the most basic scale in music theory pretty much in chromatic order. It's still a song. Same for the Alphabet song, it's lyrics are just the alphabet, it's still art.

Toilets are also art. If you really wanted a toilet that had no artistry at all it'd be an uneven hole in the floor made with a hammer.

[โ€“] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think that would then be performance art.