Is a watercolor less art than an oil painting? How about acyrlics? ceramics? sculpture? clay? metal? wood? photos? computer generated art? It is all different forms of art using different mediums. And anybody that is good in any of those mediums has talent. I am always ammused at the "art" community because they are so negative about new art forms. It threatens them because most artists never make a living in art unless they are an art teacher. Even in photography, the "fine art" photographers usually don't make a living at it, and the rest of us do make a living because we are not selling art, but preserving memories. Ethics only come into play here if somebody is misrepresenting their art.