I got my own way of determing what is art.  Let's take a canvas with artwork that looks like it was done by an elephant.  If done by the elephant, its not art.  If a person was to take a brush in hand and make the creation stroke by stroke, blending the colors and forming the shape using just a brush, to me that would be art.  Splattering paint at random is not.  The white dot on a black background, was the white dot formed by a brush using carefully calibrated hues of white and the black background done the same way, then I would classify that as art.

However, in both cases, I wouldn't even think of having the crap in my house and I don't care if the artist was famous (except perhaps to turn around and sell it to someone else at a profit using the P.T. Barnum philosophy).  Jan