[lbo-talk] Are you a philistine?

Michael Simkin simkin_michael at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 7 23:17:53 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: Jacob Conrad To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org


>Scored 92%--taken in by number 3. To be fair, I recognized the Rothko and the Mondrian. Pretty easy, I thought. >That software-generated stuff? Hey, my five-year-old could do better

but you admit that you mistaken one of my pictures for true masterpiece of abstract art. Therefore your five year old can do better than Rothko and Mondrian as well. This is quite possible.


>Rule of thumb for non-philistines:

well, you may be one indeed: not to sense irony in "True Masterpieces of Abstract Art, created by Immortal Artists. They carry profound meanings ..."


>anything that looks kind of like a screen saver is a fake.

Is this your criteria for true art: does not look like a screensaver?

best wishes,

Mikhail Simkin --- http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/

Michael Simkin wrote:

Are you a philistine?

Take a quiz to find out:

http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/true_art_or_fake_art.html

You will see a dozen of images.

Some of them are True Masterpieces of Abstract Art, created by Immortal Artists. They carry profound meanings, which are, however, beyond the apprehensions of the vulgar. The rest were produced by the author of the quiz using common software (like Microsoft Word). They mean nothing.

You are asked to decide on each of the images. Afterwards the quiz is graded automatically.

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