Post-Impressionistic "Oil" of Jupiter: But is it Art?

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4. Btw, I should add that in my understanding, creating art requires intention and work. That's why, for

instance, image generating via AI is not art. The person prompting the AI may claim the prompt is an intention, but the images generated are not that person's work, the image generator doesn't really understand the intention, and the same prompt can produce endless and wildly different variations.

There are people using filters who feel that the decision to use a filter suffices to make something art. Some people will agree with that. Others won't.

Some will say that just the choice of an image is enough work and intention to make it deliberate art. Again, that's a very low bar. Especially when the person sorting through, say, a huge assortment of photos hadn't taken any of them. Applying a filter to a chosen image doesn't change that. The intention and work involved are trivial compared to doing a painting.

If someone cropped just the face of the Mona Lisa and applied a filter to it, would you consider that cropped and filtered image art?

Again, this was a beautiful photo of Jupiter. It looks nice with the filter, too.