[u-89]

Too many art school graduates are ill-equipped to see the "art" in everyday life

Seeing art in everyday life is still taught - see Marcel Dumcamp's fountain below. Everyday objects are too often overlooked for their aesthetic qualites by the general public and only when taken out of context can they been "seen". By the way this piece of "modern art" was done in 1917.

[Wil H]

see Marcel Dumcamp's fountain below...

That would be Marcel Duchamp, not Dumcamp

Duchamp was a member of the Dadaist movement, one of who's aims were to ridicule the snobbery of the art intelligensia. They were nihilists and anarchists.

That piece of work you highlighted was a "piss take" in more than one sense.

[buffyt]

And Marcel Duchamps was the first one to do this, when he brought a pop bottle rack into a museum and called it art.

[Darksheare]

I kinda beg to differ...
"Art" now adays is used as an excuse to shock and offend.
It is no longer about form and beauty, it's about crassness, crudity, and vitriol.
Those, such as myself, that CAN draw -and draw well- have had the NEA and those in power in the "Art World" thumb their noses at us and tell us that what we do isn't art.
Because it isn't shocking and discordant.
That's all it's about today.
To be shocking and discordant.

Me, I'll take form, beauty, and substance over offensiveness any day.