Ultimately, I believe art is a phenomenon where one can derive pleasure and meaning looking at the wrinkles of a coat in the same way they derive pleasure and meaning looking at a painting. To take this further, art is when you derive the same pleasure looking at a garbage-filled alleyway and a critically-acclaimed movie. Art is a mental phenomena stemming from a kind of hedonism that one must experience in order to justify the horrors and pain of existing. It does not involve a level of human manufacturing or creation, as just like the conceptual artists have asserted, art is what happens inside someone’s head. In my own interpretation: art is the phenomenon of entertainment.
Anything people find interesting or entertaining automatically becomes art. This can vary from the slight arch of someone’s back to the grand displays of power through ornate architecture projects. This completely separates art from morality, despite how much I do want to impose morality onto art it goes against a definition I have always held dear. This means horrific, degrading, and extreme violence is an artistic entertainment. Though this also comes with the additional meaning of if one does not find it entertaining, it no longer becomes art on a psychological level. This becomes a subjective phenomena that humanity regularly tries to limit and impose as seen with the Futurist Manifesto and the Degenerate Art Exhibition. If The Mona Lisa is not entertaining to you, it is not art. The same rule applies to those who do not derive entertainment from performance art; it is not art because they cannot be entertained, but to others it is still celebrated and seen as art so it will still exist.
The question with this assertion is if there should be institutions that should impose a sense of superiority holding one art above another. To some degree it promotes competition, social involvement, and innovation. On the other hand, defining certain art as superior also promotes censorship, alienation, and ridicule.
I believe if one does not find specific art as entertaining, that person should exist in a society where competition is accessible and their reasons for opening competition public and thoroughly recorded. This emphasizes an intellectualism as a combatant against a growing anti-intellectualist society.