Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA (Ken Laws) (06/17/86)
"In art, creativity is much more straightforward! One creates a work of art where there was none before." While there is truth to this, I disagree with the implication that art, or certainly that >>all<< art, is pure creation. Most examples that I have seen are transformations. The artist sees a scene, technique, or concept that intrigues him, and searches for a way to capture the same thing in a new medium. This is analogy in a pure form, not the opposite of analogy as was suggested by Col. Sicherman. -- Ken Laws -------
PHayes@SRI-KL (Pat Hayes) (06/18/86)
Of course art isnt 'pure creation' ( whatever THAT might mean ). Read Kenneth Clarke "the Nude", or any decent piece of historical criticism. Most artists dont even use a new medium, which is just as well or we would have run out of media long ago. After reading Jay Webers complaint about space in AIList being wasted on LISP, let me back him up by suggesting that space not also be wasted on sub-undergraduate amateur pseudo-philosophy. Severely editing anything from Gordon Joly might be a good way to start. Pat Hayes [The current policy, of course, is to screen on the basis of content rather than source. -- KIL]