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by miracle2k 1905 days ago
I might be able to recreate it well enough. I might be able to pay a cheap poster in a museum shop! I can probably recreate a Wall Drawing by Sol LeWitt (since they being frequently recreated anyway), and I can certainly glue a banana to a wall.

It all leads back to the question of why we value the original in the first place. People have all kinds of answers to this - why it's different for "real" art - but those points usually don't hold up to scrutiny.

There is something about physical things that a digital image is lacking, for sure. But most of the value we ascribe to things, even to the Mona Lisa, is totally arbitrary, a collective illusion.