All art is...?

[Gregory]

Is reality on the surface of art? Is creating art like printing money?

All art is sublime.

[Baruch]

Is reality on the surface of art? Is creating art like printing money?

All art is sublime.

What is communication?  Art is communicating creativity.  From the artist's mind (mostly emotions) to your mind.  An artist is someone with both an ego and a scratch that has to be scratched.

"The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published in 1757. He defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling."

This is why Jackson Pollock isn't an artist ;-)

[Gregory]

Abstract Expressionism is fractal heaven.

[Baruch]

Abstract Expressionism is fractal heaven.

Ugliness at all levels of magnification?

[Gregory]

Fractals are beautiful calculations.

[Baruch]

Fractals are beautiful calculations.

Not when done by monkeys spattering paint randomly.  Fractals still don't match reality, which is analog and random (like Jackson Pollock paintings).  We like some degree of order.  Classical = obvious order.  Fractal = subtle order.

[Gregory]

Pollock was in effect hardly random.

[Baruch]

Pollock was in effect hardly random.

Only if you believe in absolute determinism.  I do not.  With absolute determinism, there is nothing random.

Non-random local art ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandpainting#/media/File:Navajo_sandpainting.jpg

[Gregory]

Art is determined by the artist, it is not accidental.

[Gregory]

There is no such thing as chance in the world. - David Hume

His thinking is impeccable.

[Baruch]

Art is determined by the artist, it is not accidental.

No, art is only valuable after the starving artist has died ;-)

[Baruch]

There is no such thing as chance in the world. - David Hume

His thinking is impeccable.

You are making David Hume out to be G-d.  And here I thought he was Scottish ;-)

[Gregory]

Improvisation is learnt.

[Gregory]

Originality is just a new way of saying the same old thing. Therefore, when you say God, I think genius.

[Mike Cl]

Originality is just a new way of saying the same old thing. Therefore, when you say God, I think genius.

When I hear "God" or "G_d" or any derivation of said word, I think scam or flim flam man.