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From: Ludwig.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Ludwig Plutonium)
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.plutonium,alt.ascii-art,sci.math
Subject: Re: Art, math, realism, ascii (Re: PARASITES INSIDE OF
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Date: 2 Aug 1994 13:19:12 GMT
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In article <FLEE.94Aug1233845@colossus.cse.psu.edu>
flee@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:

> 
> Besides that, I don't believe the purpose of art is to convey precise
> intentions.  Jackson Pollack certainly wasn't being very precise when
> he splattered paint on a canvas by tossing it through a turbine.  And
> if you start trying to figure out the precise pattern of paint
> splatters that optimally represents Pollack's intention, then you've
> missed the point entirely.

  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.
  Increasingly, math will take over art.