All those LOLcats, recommended animals, angry cartoons, and the various memes you spent hours laughing online are actually new forms of artistic self-expression? After seeing things from famous artists and philosophers' viewpoints like Andy Warhol and Aristotle, PBS's creative channel thinks so and explains the reason with a truly worthwhile video.
"Can you create images to share personal experiences and share with others? My friend, this is art."
Can Internet Mime be an art? Of course, they are often used to suggest problems and dilemmas that art may be impossible to solve in the same direct and hard work. It is a basic definition of art itself, but each meme has an artistic possibility. We can even think of meme as "instant" or "interactive" art. It is that they are a) rapid production, consumption, and redistribution, b) correspondence to other statements and / or correspondence to solicitation. (How to apply the characteristics of meme to art? The immediacy of the Internet culture is opposite to traditional slow burning, artistic essence of contemplation - rapid fire regeneration in the mind, Meme speed (same as above: production, digestion, distribution, reaction) may update art with a single stay Correlation of roadside era
Meme and the Internet culture are fertile places for art sparks. Meme said that the advantages of art itself are not so obvious, but because there is no objective standard, it is impossible to discount them as creative and valuable digital artifacts. These works are neither abusing nor insulting people - they serve people and people; there is no rule of artistic democratization and adequate creative permission
I think Meme belongs to these definitions. Meme requires less effort, but effort does not define art. Art is defined by expression. Meme is an expression of a feeling of beauty. Political meme promotes political stories and wishes readers to see their views. Ironic Memes saturated pop culture and the ideals of comedy. Repeatable memes will push readers to their childhood and current feelings. Even pure comedy memes are meant to arouse emotions of readers. Comedy is an art with rules and principles. Meme follows this format. Settings (top text) and perforations (bottom text). This meme form is outdated, but it is a good example of meme (although it is too simple). They obey the Art Rules.