Art is anything that is intended to evoke an emotional response from the beholder. Thus, making a shellacked donut toilet seat is art.
py art, pointless stupid hipster art, but still art. Just because we don't like it, doesn't exclude it from the realm of art. Just like music, different strokes for different folks.
Sometimes things that aren't intended to be art end up that way because of people's response to it.
Even the most mundane things, such as a plain concrete bridge span that we would normally not give a second glance can be the basis for art, such as if a photographer or painter portrays the bridge in a certain light or from a certain angle that gives it a "hook" into our emotions.
This picture that Hohes posted is an excellent example:

If you saw that room in real life in that same situation you might think nothing of it. But the artist's painting of the scene gives it an artistic quality, creating art out of the mundane.
There, that's my take on it.
And, as I mentioned in another post in this forum not too long ago, I consider this to be art as well:
...Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...
"I enjoy skinny skiing, bullfights on acid..." - Lacy Underalls
The problems we face will not be solved by the minds that created them.
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