X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,65f6e9a9181678d0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-17 08:15:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!transit.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail From: joris bellenger Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Conversions : Art or not ? Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:15:10 +0100 Organization: XS4ALL Internet BV Lines: 44 Message-ID: <3BF68D0E.DD4E3876@xs4all.nl> References: <3BF04C4C.D72372E0@xs4all.nl> <3bf242a9$0$767$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <29gcvtgc323pdbgeklq2eems6po435lsvf@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a194-109-236-5.adsl.xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news1.xs4all.nl 1006013746 15852 194.109.236.5 (17 Nov 2001 16:15:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Nov 2001 16:15:46 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:10782 drsquare wrote: > > But would you have seen him in the same light if he'd done all his > paintings as paint by numbers? Andy Warhol made some paintings by numbers in the early 60's. He left some part blank so you can see the numbers. Does it mean that it is less "art" than Da Vinci's paintings? > And what was stopping him doing pictures using fixed width letters? The fact that no one had designed a fixed width font at the time? joris obascii- _ H|| H|| __________H||___________ [|.......................| ||.........## --.#.......| ||......... # # ......| @@@@ ||......... * ......| @@@@@@@ ||........ -^........| , - @@@@ ||.....##\ .......| | '_ @@@ ||....##### /###.....| | __\@ \@ ||....########\ \((#.....| _\\ (/ ) @\_/)____ ||..####, ))/ ##.......| |(__/ / /|% #/ ||..##### '####.....| \___/ ----/_|-*/ ||..#####\____/#####.....| ,: '( ||...######..######......| |: \ ||....."""" """"...b'ger| |: ) [|_______________________| |: | H||_______H|| |_____,_| H||________\| | / ( H|| H|| | /\ ) H|| H|| ( \| / _H||_______H||__ | /'=. H|________________| '=>/ \ / \ /|/ ,___/|