<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> 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.  Rule of thumb for non-philistines: anything that looks kind of like a screen saver is a fake.<br> <br> Jacob Conrad<br> <br> Michael Simkin wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="midLaw14-OE27VBDcXfHcW0000a459@hotmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Are you a philistine?</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Take a quiz to find out:</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.ee.ucla.edu/%7Esimkin/true_art_or_fake_art.html"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/true_art_or_fake_art.html</font></a></font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">You will see a dozen of images.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Some of them  </font><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">You are asked to decide on each of the images. Afterwards the quiz is graded automatically.</font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Mikhail Simkin</font></div> <div> </div> </font></div> </blockquote> </body> </html>