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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
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Subject: Re: Intelligence, awareness, and aesthetics
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Date: 22 Apr 92 19:28:30 GMT
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In article <1992Apr22.150023.11104@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu 
(Christopher Green) writes:
>I believe there was a set of computer-produced "Mondrians" in the 1960s
>that was indistinguishible from real Mondrians to many art critics. Then
>again, using Mondrian makes it pretty easy for the robo-painter, doesn't
>it.  I can't find a reference right now, but it's a topic that turns up
>pretty regularly in philosophical aesthetics.

Hofstadter reproduces a few of the artificial Mondrians in _Metamagical
Themas_.  He makes the point that imitating an existing style is a much
simpler task than creating a new one.  Creating a fake Mondrian does
not require the genius of Mondrian.


