I know, but I wanted to mention that (1) I have seen monochromatic efforts worthy of some notice; (2) I have actually seen the work I "posted" [nb: I didn't even use a .gif or .jpg--just some HTML]; (3) the work in question is indeed hanging in a "prestigious" "art" museum whose only interesting work, to my eye, was "Concerto for an anarchist" [or something like that]. It was a grand piano, hung upside down, with a pneumatically-operated mechanism that would, every five minutes, make it go 'sproing' and fly apart crazily and then draw itself together. Not sure about the artistic merit, necessarily, but technically interesting.
I understand. It's hard to qualify exactly what is on display in some of these museums, but "art" is not the description that comes to my mind. My criteria is, if it's not better than what I can do, it's not art.