damn straight i call my work ART!!! stands up on her soapbox and SHOUTS: "I AM AN ARTIST!!! and you saying otherwise, IS an insult. Necessary has nothing to do with it, it is what it is, and YES what i do is art, not just what i "consider" to be "Art" as you say, but because it is. Look it up in the bloody dictionary dude. I paint, therefore i am. and i AM an artist.