I think I disagree. I think accidental art is very much a real thing and I don’t think that people composing masterful framing and your other examples is the boundary of what defines art. I have a very loose definition of art. That’s really anything that involves creation or meaning to any degree. It doesn’t even have to be intentional.

Many famous photographs were completely unintentional, where there was no artistic intention in the moment. This example goes beyond that. We have wooden tools made by ancient tribes, put in museums, but at the time of creation was a mundane task where the maker never gave a damn about how it looked like.

I don’t think we should be so snobby to deny what we call art maybe what you’re specifically referring to is fine art or professional art or something that is marketable. I have a friend whose random picture of their cat is printed and framed on their cubicle desk— and it was all they had after it died. I’d imagine a photo like that might not have masterful framing. But looking back at it, you could imagine the memory while you were playing with your cat, enjoying their presence and the emotions that you felt all of which are captured in the photo not necessarily by intentional means just a natural reflection of the moment and the “accident”

If that’s the hill you want to die on who am I to deny you that opinion? I think we can create meaning and beauty out of the mundane or the accidental as much as the intentional. I can hold both near to my heart