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NONE@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days ago

Can a meme be considered art?

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Can a meme be considered art?

NONE@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days ago
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  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    Name a more provocative piece

  • greenbelt@lemy.lol
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    6 days ago

    What thing can not be considered art? surprised pikachu

    • NONE@lemmy.worldOP
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      AI Slop

      • greenbelt@lemy.lol
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        Fair point. Maybe the prompt to generate it was art “literature” though.

        • NONE@lemmy.worldOP
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          Yeah, but a derivative does not adopt the characteristics of the original work by default.

          A mug with The Godfather logo doesn’t automatically become art just because the movie it references is IMHO

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            imo the “idea to create the mug with the godfather logo” is more valuable as art than the AI generated result.

            • NONE@lemmy.worldOP
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              We both can totally agreed on that.

  • Stamets@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Nothing I post is.

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    • greenbelt@lemy.lol
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      this is the first and best meme

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    Anything created with the purpose to evoke a response can be considered art. At its core, art is just expression.

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      Fuck you
      

      “Clever Retort”, Birch, 2025, Digital Text on Digital Background

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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      Try to convince folks a car is art. Either the design or the experience. People seem really resistant to the idea of mass produced things that aren’t intended to be art can, in fact, be art. But some cars are beautiful. Some cars are thrilling. Both are human expressions of emotion yet neither have allowed a car to be art. The only way an art gallery would accept a car as art is if it is deformed.

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        The car I drive every day was chosen for the sole purpose of its art. The flow of a road is art. The choice of what trees to keep or remove is art. What color you paint your house is art. The way your vacuum is designed is art. Your TVs bezels are art. Your fridges tone of eggshell is art.

        Someone made a choice. Just because people choose to view an artless world doesn’t mean it’s not always around them.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    To be good is not a requirement, so yes.

    • Oka@sopuli.xyz
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      8 days ago

      This. Not everyone can be an artist, but art can come from anywhere.

      • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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        Everyone can be an artist. The only requirement is that they create art.

        Now, a professional artist, yeah I agree with you.

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        I would argue everyone can be an artist. In my opinion at least it’s more of a matter of effort and passion than talent, although of course talent helps you to achieve your artistic vision.

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    Yes, for starters the definition of art is vague and subjective.

    But over most definitions a meme could fit it.

    As a rule of thumb I don’t really worry about what’s art and what’s not.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    If a banana taped to a wall can be considered art, anything can be art.

    • NONE@lemmy.worldOP
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      Let’s not forget the Fountain of Duchamp

  • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org
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    Of course

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    https://i.imgflip.com/601zqc.jpg

  • Electric_Druid@lemmy.world
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    Yes

  • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    by definition, all art are memes (if we go by the original Dawkins definition)

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    Anything can be considered art, in the right context.

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    I’m assuming you are talking “fine art” / art in a museum . Sure. Many artists have what we consider “memes” Barbara Kruger, Shepard Fairey, and and others have work we consider memes or meme like.

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