Granted, some art that people go wild about did not really take much effort to produce at all, and I often find those same "art" pieces lying around my bedroom (eg, the half cow).
But that is not the point. They point is that they actually considered the item at all, and then put it on display in a gallery where it will be appreciated for the first time from an angle that only exists in art galleries. The unmade bed can be taken to mean anything from rest, lazyness, sex or simply mundane life. Or, as you say, to be utter bull crap. Because it is only art or otherwise in our heads, because in reality it is just an object, arranged by human hands but ultimately a collection of semi-useful molecules. Many people take a very left-brained approach to art, in that it has to be a representation of something. But art is creative, meaning it is a right-brained activity, and must be considered in a right-brained way to be appreciated as good art or bad. Now, what impresses the art community is not necessarily skill with classic art mediums, but the ability to do new things that no one has done or thought of before.
Or, you know, I'm just talking out of my arse again.
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