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Art is unconstrained creative expression. Opposites of art commonly indicate works that have commercial, academic, political or technical constraints. This is the reason that design or advertising aren't art despite being potentially creative. Likewise, works that bend to impress the audience may be considered entertainment. Other antonyms of art tend to stress that a work is unoriginal, unskilled or that it lacks creative spark. Art doesn't require talent as a small child can create art. Likewise, adults can freely create art as a leisure activity without any in-depth education or experience. However, if you describe your works as fine art -- your works become fair game for criticism. The following are possible opposites of art.
Academic
Advertising
Amusement
Artificial
Artless
Bogus
Bureaucratic
Businesslike
Calculated
Cliche
Commercial Art
Commodity
Common
Confined
Constrained
Copy
Corporate
Counterfeit
Cowardly
Design
Dull
Entertainment
Fake
Forgery
Formal
Imitation
Impotent
Incapacity
Ineptitude
Institutionalized
Leisure
Matter-of-fact
Mediocrity
Methodical
Mimicry
Numb
Obvious
Phony
Propaganda
Publicity
Recreation
Rigid
Routine
Science
Spectacle
Spineless
Stagnant
Stale
Static
Stereotyped
Sterile
Stock
Systematic
Technical
Timid
Unexpressive
Unimaginative
Uninspired
Uninventive
Unoriginal
Unrefined
Unremarkable
Unskilled
Utility

Notes

There is a long history of influential art movements beginning with harsh criticism that accuses the art of not being art. This can originate with either art critics or the public but usually not both -- where the art goes on to change the art world. Historically, this is so common that people may feel that such criticism is a sign of brilliance. This thinking suffers from survivorship bias -- hundreds of works that were criticized as non-art were later recognized as brilliant. However, millions of works that were criticized similarly may have been actually awful.
The term anti-art refers to a specific type of art that is, perhaps ironically, embraced as fine art.

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