X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,535e80416e502a8c X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public X-Google-Thread: 10ffde,299d0bc3500e024c X-Google-Attributes: gid10ffde,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,535e80416e502a8c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-11 07:13:02 PST Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.plutonium,alt.ascii-art,sci.math Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sun.cais.com!io.org!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!scipio.cyberstore.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!deep.rsoft.bc.ca!agate!library.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!venus.engr.ucdavis.edu!ian From: ian@venus.engr.ucdavis.edu (Ian Broverman) Subject: Re: Art, math, realism, ascii (Re: PARASITES INSIDE OF VIRUSES?) Message-ID: Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Guru) Organization: UC Davis References: <31j4ev$i7t@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 15:31:06 GMT Lines: 58 Xref: bga.com alt.ascii-art:11074 sci.math:17930 In article Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) writes: >Ludwig Plutonium (Ludwig.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu) wrote: > > >> The highest resolution photograph of a beautiful female face >> excels the Mona Lisa. > >Not true. ^^^^^^^^^ That's pretty subjective. Ludwig can like whatever he wants to like :-) > >The Mona Lisa has an indefinable quality which has little to do with >high resolution photography, mathematical definition, or the beauty >of a female face. > >Failure, or a lack of ability, to recognise the intangible aspects >of The Mona Lisa can only lead to invalid assumptions in the >development of any proposition " that mathematics will increasingly >overtake art ". Mathematics is a part of nature. I think that art has been competing with nature since day one. I agree that mathematics will not overtake art. It, like every other medium that a creative person can get their hands on, is becoming art. As for intangible qualities, everything has intangible qualities. The Mona Lisa has the advantage of being popular enough to influence people to invest years of study in the work. Not that it isn't a great work; I thinnk that it's become a little overrated since it's become the identifying icon of art. -Ian ObAscii: o 8"8 dP Yb .8 8. .8' `8. .8' `8. ooooooooooo 88 oooooooooooooooooooo ""8oo. dP io .oo8"" ""8oo "' `8 oo8"" ""88o. . Y.`" o "8oo. .ooo' 8 dP " oo8"" Yb o8 .oo8"" ooo. 8o .8.oo8"" ""8oo.8. o8P"" ""Y8o " " Namarie -- ian@venus.engr.ucdavis.edu | | UCD Mech & Aero, #02404; Davis, CA 95616 ---------------------------' `------------------------------------------ =========================== + ========================================== ---------------------------. .------------------------------------------