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From: flee@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Art, math, realism, ascii (Re: PARASITES INSIDE OF
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Date: 02 Aug 1994 17:30:50 GMT
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Ludwig Plutonium:
>  Precisely, his canvas "intended" to fleece the public out of money.
>All art has an intent. And that intent may be vague for even the artist
>himself/herself. Our Maker 231PU superdetermines it. 
>  And, that "intent" can switch as time goes by. When da Vinci did the
>Mona Lisa, that female face was the highest dot per square cm
>resolution of any painting on Earth. But now we can do better than
>that. The highest resolution photograph of a beautiful female face
>excels the Mona Lisa. But the intent of the Mona Lisa has now switched
>from resolution of female face to big time money for auctioneers. Put
>the best resolution photograph of a female human next to the Mona Lisa
>into a museum of advanced aliens from another planet and the Mona Lisa
>is second rate in comparison.

Hmm.  I think we're having semantic difficulties.  You're using the
word "intent" in a way I'm not familiar with.

This "intent" that can change over time, is it a universal or is it
something that varies subjectively?
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