I've never been a David Hockney fan. Now I know why; his paintings look like a computer's.

1) How is this any better or worse than they person who airbrushes Elvis after Elvis on velvet.

2) if you buy one of these (where and how) are you paying for the art or the programming or the art of programing

Mr. W

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If the human art were any good, it would be easier to tell them apart. Normally, I would look for clues that a human eye was judging and balancing the picture: a sense of grace, balance, harmony, contrast, etc. Computers would inevitably be formulaic by comparison. However, the human art here is so stilted it looks like someone was trying to imitate computer-generated art.

difficult at best when we both think and paint in the abstract.

great pictures

All of the images are wretched. who cares who made them, really.....

Excuse my typos, I'm using an iPad.

The first one is done by a computer - look at how the lines are arbitrarily wiggly while the curvature of the base is perfect. The second one is also computery, just look at all the straight lines and how the shapes overlap without in any way distorting the color underneath. now the third picture is truly human - just as the vase was too perfect with a slight shift of the line, this vase is smooth and three-dimensional yet impossible with roughness occurring as a result of the stroke. Although the fourth one has sharp edges a a solid black color, the subtle background underneath responds to this shape to form it into something abstractly evocative of flesh, therefore human. Now the next one has computerized brush strokes with oddly smooth edges and predictable jagged edges at the end of a stroke, however this is only the fault of the computer program. The lines have a quality of searching. The grey shadow on the vase crawls up the form. And just look at the flowers! A quick scrible of white with a dash of gray over it excellently describes a flower. Very human indeed. Number six is the most calculated of the bunch. I think the utter sharp flatness of the form and the rigid and random layering of the plant forms screams computer. Finally our old friend the computer went back to abstraction, only this time giving the colors almost a painterly fluctuation of color. It almost passes for human if it were not for the effect of the flat forms having an earie quality of having been placed in Z space (it looks like flattened 3d).

It is surprising how much the computers can fool us, but a closer look shows us the computers do not make art like artist... yet.

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I don't see any Aha! moments coming directly from computers. More information and more rules will produce more permutations. The computers may give us the ability to see things differently. Then we have a chance to be creative.

It's interesting how teaching a computer to paint relates to how we teach our own children and students to perform various creative acts. Very interesting!

Finding that any cluster of points could easily follow any x,y position on the screen (in polar coords) opened my eyes to the magic. How quickly could I make 5 pointed kaleidoscopes, for example, so impossible impossible to make in reality. NO! Computers never produce art, they only produce pixel clusters in 2D or 3. The analogy is paint: paint never produces art nor the brushes nor the canvas nor the palate knives nor the scrap of fluorescent color artfully placed on a leaf in the sunlight.

Ah, what is art?

interesting

I was wondering if Aaron has an appendage it paints with or if it just "prints" the painting.....,

would like to see the score before analyzing my errors!

Fascinating

Interesting to see David Hockney's iPad art (which inspired me to get the "Brushes" app) compared to Aaron's output. Kind of a trick quiz, tho, since both are digitally generated.

To those asking about their scores: you can click on "See Results" to find out the correct answers and see how other quiz-takers responded.

cannot compute

It's a crapshoot!!!

Well, still unsure as to what did what.

Only the emotional contents can touch our feelings and hearts.

score please

:)

Hurra!

cool

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comment to flw after my score

I just want my score!

Honestly, they all looked a bit stiff and calculated, so I kept feeling like they were all computer-generated, or at least created on a computer.

Fascinating...

I tried to see the handedness in the mark to
help decide which was hand made and which by a machine. Is Aaron" left or right" handed?

There seems to be an over-all pattern in what I judged to be computer art: abstract design. I thought those paintings that depicted what a human might actually see (individual objects) etc. were made by a human. The colors used in the abstract art was very interesting.

Cool.

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Answers please

kill technology

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