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modern art (none / 0)

is best defined by Calvin & Hobbes' line:

With modern art, you don't know who' pulling whose leg

(that's the polite version)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Nov 14th, 2008 at 05:46:39 PM EST
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Re: modern art (none / 1)

No need to give in to cynicism entirely though - there's a lot of inspiring stuff in science - see the space photos on NASA site. Then there is digital art and the combination of art and science, here's one specially for you - a French site - with some nice imagery using stuff like fractals:

http://www.lactamme.polytechnique.fr/Mosaic/descripteurs/Galerie_NonDeterministicFractalGeometryNatu ralPhenomenonSynthesis.FV.html

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Fri Nov 14th, 2008 at 06:16:52 PM EST
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