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I love Yoko Ono because she trolled boomers so hard they're still mad about it 50 years later
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Yoko Ono is a terrible fucking human being
Her "art" is absolute trash, in the worst sense. As in, she says it is art, but it is objectively garbage.
She treated people around her like shit.
Just read about how she handled the letters between John Lennon and his son.
Fuck that bitch. She rode the coat tails of someone who was an actual artist and the only discussion her "art" has created was whether or not it could be called art.
Seriously, she is trash.
All art is subjective, imo. Just because you didn't like what she was doing musically doesn't mean it's automatically bad. Also, I think art that prompts a discussion around whether it's art or not is very, very important.
That said, I can't comment on her character, so I'll have to take your word on it that she was crappy to Lennon's kid / the people around her.
Taking a shit in a zip lock bag, or duct taping a banana to a wall is not art.
It's fucking lazy, pretentious, bullshit.
A literal circle jerk.
Not everything has to be Monet or Robert Frost, but there HAS to be a vehicle of creation, a filter passing through the artist.
Screaming obnoxious sounds and saying it is singing, or placing a random object on a surface is not art or commentery, ESPECIALLY when the discussion is focused on "what is art".
Art can be proactive, controversial, or just a simple expression. But it has to have a purpose outside of "is it art?".
Otherwise everyone claiming AI slop is not art, is a hypocrite.
The fact that you're upset about this kind of art means it's working :)
You don't know the thought process that lead to it.
Now where did I put those ziplock bags?