Re: oooooh controversy!

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-Jill S.
"slim" <sli...@webjaz.net> wrote in message
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> I agree with you totally.....but that is not what I am saying.  Its like
> this....ok so appearantly there are limitations between ANSI and
ASCII....that
> I learned....cool by the way to learn something in USENET hehehe  Anyway,
As I
> mentioned in another post.  There are ways to break the what people think
are
> confines of an art.  Sure it maybe hard to do and take time to accomplish
but
> it can be done.  For instance, lets say you take a Standard Black/White
> Ascii...ASCII is b/w right?  I think so....anyway if you take a piece of
ascii
> art that some say cannot be hued.  I say it can be done....sure it may not
be
> "PURE" ascii art, but I question what is pure art.  Maybe its ANSI art as
> someone told me earlier...either way it is art.  It is a perception.  What
you
> may perceive as art some else maybe not, but that is the beauty of art.
In
> other words, if its b/w that is still art, because drawing with charcoal
> pencil can be art.....drawing with a burnt piece of wood could be art, but
so
> is color.  I say lets (as artists) explore the validity and definition of
art.

This is an ASCII Art NG. Not a general -Art- NG. If you want to explore
other things, it's no longer ASCII. That's the point I was trying to make.
:)

> With that said here are some questions.
>
> Do you think that if the art was done in text, whether ANSI, ASCII or some
> other kind that it degrades the purity of the arts?  If so, why?

ASCII art is art that can be viewed on all systems. That's the beauty of it.
If it's mixed with ANSI, or HTML, then not everyone can see it anymore. So
in a way, yes.

> Here is something else I thought is interesting....most people wouldn't
accept
> ANSI or ASCII as art.  The average Joe so to speak.  I think they are
> wrong...but it goes back to the perception thing again.

Yup :)

> Would you be interested in see a piece of text art that was color....lets
say
> on a black background?  Do you say that is not art?

No, we say it's not ASCII art. ASCII art and art are different.
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> Is the above example art?  or just ASCII art simply?  Is there a
difference?

Art is what you make of it. Yes. :)

> Let me know what you think..... I enjoy discussing this stuff.

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