> to achieve things could be presented in other ways with minimal effort
You could imagine the art piece with minimal effort: no effort spent in making it.
So in a way that's the purest form of art by your criticism.
If only there was some way to achieve this, we'd be done.
'two minute papers' has a link to a free course on how to do this. I haven't checked them out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-eIKkyAco Note: the title says 3d printing but it's actually milling acryllic sheets, not SLA