Crap Art is an art movement. Here are a few of the principles:

The practice of art should be primarily explorative, and the creation of art should be discovery rather than invention.

Popularly held views about what constitutes art, or what constitutes artistic talent, are elitist and discourage other forms of art and artistic talent from being explored or utilized.

The creation of art is more important than its consumption. Therefore, aesthetics (except in the biased eye/ear of the creator) are overrated as a judgment of the worth of art.

That which is created rapidly and in high quantities contains more variety and is more likely to be successful/innovative. Applying the 80%/20% "rule": If only 20% of the effort is needed to get 80% of the quality, then spending by spending only 20% of the effort, you can create five times as many artifacts at 80% quality.

The Crap Art movement tries, above all, to avoid the elitism and more-artistic-than-thou attitude which has effectively kept the creation of art solely in the hands of "artists". It is founded in the hope that everyone can make art. The name "crap art" does not mean to indicate that crap art is somehow worthless or foul-smelling (indeed, they believe that it is more worthwhile than most of what is commonly considered "art"). The name is meant to sound honest and down-to-earth; to make you think, "I can make crap art!" perhaps. And you can! Anyone can participate in the movement, as long as the attempt is honest.

You can hear some examples at the Album-a-Day page, one of the Crap Art projects.

External Links

Crap Art homepage]