Re: Art, math, realism, ascii (Re: PARASITES INSIDE OF VIRUSES?)
From Lennert Stock <sto...@fwi.uva.nl>
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· 9 Aug 1994 18:28 · View full thread
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uur...@math.arizona.edu (Steve Uurtamo) writes: >>[snik] >No, I do not. And if you had learned anything at all about the life of >any of the artists that you're talking about, you'd find that your informedness >would lead to more useful conversation. Making generalizations about artists >that you don't UNDERSTAND doesn't prove that you're intelligent, or witty, >or sarcastic. It just proves that you (as can most people) can blather on >about things that you know nothing about. >Take 5 or so fine art classes, if you don't want to pay too much, >take them at your local community college. Learn a teeny tiny bit >about what the fuck you're talking about. >Jackson Pollock was able to sell his art. He got lucky. Very lucky. Van >Gogh couldn't sell 2 god damn paintings his whole life. Van Gogh was an >incredible artist. He was ahead of his time and died poor and insane because >of it. Don't scoff at what you cannot yet understand. >>No, the slightest education with regard to art has shown me that people >>can come up with the most nauseating, distastful, putrid excrescence and >>call it art. >[snik] >steve Two questions: 1. Did Van Gogh take art classes ? 2. Why is this group called alt.ascii-art when it should be alt.ascii-skill or something like that ? Face it, 99.9% of stuff posted here is either basic, unpretending, or just a skillful representation of an image in ascii. Ah well, guess that's personal ;) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@8888888888888%%%%%%%%%%%%%::%:::::::::::.:..:.. . . . @%: L e n n e r t S t o c k ::%%%%%%:%%::::::::::::.:..:.. . . @@@@@@@@@@@@@@8888888888888%%%%%%%%%%%%%:::: s t o c k @ f w i . u v a . n l @@@@@@@@@@@@8888888888888%%%%%%%%%%%:%:%::::::::::::.:.:..:.. . . .
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