Is it art? Is it even mine?

Art is an expression of creativity rendered through demanding technical skills... or is it?

Dada art raises a few eyebrows and in my opinion a few ownership questions. My absolute favorite example is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain. Basically, Duchamp ordered a urinal, wrote “R. Mutt 1917” on it, and called it his art. Is it though? Does that make it his work? He surly did not put the effort and craftsmanship into the piece. He simply wrote a piece of graffito on it.

Fountain

I see this piece as the gateway into the today’s postmodern toolbox. Average people today, with no artistic ability, can take existing pictures, videos, and music and refashion them into “art” using such tools as Photoshop, Apple Garage Band, and Apple Final Cut Studio. With as much distaste as I have for Duchamp’s Readymades, I will give him credit for his creative thinking and his support of remixing of old common objects into “art”.