Art or Not Art?
Take the test here, and find out if the pictures above are paintings by a famous artist or a 4-year old.
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Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Monday, August 10, 2009
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Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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8 Comments:
I only missed one but that's because I love pugs and the pug fabric was, well, pictures of pugs. That's art I tells ya!
I got most of them wrong. One of the ones I got right was the pug fabric (not art)
I got most of them "wrong," too.
Just because a 4-year-old paints something, it doesn't mean it's not art. Just because an "artist" paints something, it doesn't mean it's art.
In college, I took a few art history courses and thus learned that most modern "art" isn't. Not that that's what the professor said, but . . .
Mark,
Ok, you got me. You proved I'm not an art connoisseur: I cannot tell my a*s from a hole in the ground, if you pardon my French ;-)
How about this one: If econ profs start teaching a lesson or two about art, maybe I should start teaching economics. After all: If art is an improvement over economics, how hard can economics be?
Comparative advantage? Doesn't seem to be a very important concept
;-) Wonkish, as Paul would say!
Perhaps it only means that certain "schools of art" are quite juvenile.
I got 5 right out of ten. Sort of like calling heads or tails on a coin flip.
In defense of my poor score, I must say Stossel has found a group of true 4 year old prodigies.
I agree with the child prodigy theory. Some of those pieces by the kids sure look like art to me. I draw the line at trained elephants though.
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