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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Mar 1997.
Re: Ascii-artists

Re: Ascii-artists

In article <slr...@banach.math.fu-berlin.de>, 
guc...@banach.math.fu-berlin.de says...
>
>> > What makes an artist?
>> Checked my Random House dictionary...
>> artist, n., 
[snip]
>
>Here we go again - defining words by other undefined words.
>But the question still is:  Does it suffice to *claim* to do these things?
>Or is there a definite way to judge upon this?  What *is* art?
>And what makes a person an artist?  Can a computer judge upon this?
>
>Followup-To: alt.philosophy.blah.blah.blah
>
>My point:  Anyone who calls himself an artist (whether by typing ASCII 
>pics or some other kind of art) might as well say "I am cool". 
>Which is very uncool.
>
>Stop griping, though - just post some ASCII pics here and be done with.
>
>Sven  --Grain of salt!

Do we want a _computer_ to judge upon this? (However, as much as it surprises 
me to type this, I agree with Sven.) 

And now, back to the drawing board...


with apologies to Magritte, 

"This is NOT an artist"

            ,---~        __|__
           /        ha  |     |       SHhhh!!!
        ,^^^%--- ha     | #   |
       < \   \ ha       |#### |   "Artiste" at work
       <  \ ____        | )(  |
       <   (o  #)      _|_____|_ 
       <    ~--'          /|\
       <                 / | \
       <      ejm97     /  |  \  (oh, yeah. right....)
     ^^                /   |   \
        "


--
                                                 ,^
             ha                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
               ha  -----%^           "    "
                 ha ha /  (oops. I laughed my head off.)
                      /   
                llizard aka ejm  cq5...@torfree.net

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Subject: Re: Ascii-artists
Date: 1997/03/08
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