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Re:Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k by itronitron on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:43PM (#18306628)
I think there is an important difference between art that people will go to see in a gallery, museum, or in public, and art that is bought at auction. I have no interest in seeing AI generated paintings either at home or in a gallery, but I would go to an art museum specifically to see Fountain by Duchamp. Fountain encourages people to appreciate the world around them by taking an everyday readymade and probably overlooked object and placing it in a gallery where they can see it more fully.
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Re:Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k by justinator on Friday October 26, 2018 @01:54AM (#18307074)
What's fun about Fountain is the the original has been lost, so you can only see a, "recreation" of it. Since it was initially just a found object of a mass-produced item, this wasn't a problem - but still, Duchamp could sanction "official" replicas.

Ah, love it.

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Re:Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k by justinator on Friday October 26, 2018 @08:45PM (#18313709)
Also fountains usually have some sort of water works going on. Could be that Duchamp was asking people to piss on the Readymade! I'm sure a few have.
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