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Does that mean that anything is art?
How do you then rate/quantify it?
What are they learning at art school? How to do anything?[/quote]
actually yes. quantifitcation (qualification?)/rating does not necessarily come into it, as art is essentially a relative experience.
art school (generally) teaches you both the manual skills to realise your ideas, as well as teaching you how to refine your thought process so that your ideas can come through more clearly or simply or so that you (as an artist) can fully justify all of your decisions made thoughout the process.
most post dada art critique/theory tends to argue that art is basically what an artist decides/presents as art. and a whole lot of the 1950-70's was spent (by artists) trying to negate the role of the artist, by attempting to get 'regular' people (audience members, etc.) to engage with art as a practice that can be engaged in by anyone. of course a lot of this failed because everyone likes the spectacle/celebrity of an artist, and art collection/comprehension is essentially (foremost?) an eliteist activity. blah blah blah. sorry. but basically, yes, art is whatever anyone says it is, it's rating/qualification by a given populace only determines it's acceptance into the wider art canon, not whether it is art or not.