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Friday Fun Thread for October 28, 2022

Be advised; this thread is not for serious in depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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The ship of THeseus is a far cry from just building another ship and calling it the ship of Theseus.

And I would say recreating that Mondrian is a far cry new dawn from making another piece of art and calling it that Mondrian.

I've lost you here.

It would be acceptable, in case the artwork was damaged, to reglue the strips in place. It's called restoration. Making another one wouldn't be the original, it's what they call a "reproduction" and you can't hang that up in a museum as an original.

Are you really talking down to me? "Reproductions" get hung up in museums as originals all the time. They are called forgeries and nobody gives a shit until some people with microscopes come along and prove it. There are, 100% guaranteed, "reproductions" hanging in museums right now and nobody knows or cares.

Unless, can you just tell from the, I don't know, aura? From the sense that the piece you just viewed didn't instill the exact right feelings and thoughts in you, and so it must be a reproduction? Because if you can you should hit me up in PMs - with your ability to sense authenticity and my ability to understand more than a single perspective we could make serious coin.

if all it takes to create a "reproduction" of a famous piece of art is some dude with sticky tape, that calls the whole art scene into question.

There's a joke about the mechanic fixing the car. "But all you did is tighten one nut! What's 1000 bucks for?" "One buck for tightening the nut. The rest is for knowing that this is what I had to do."

To create a reproduction of an art piece, you need, at the minimum, an art piece to reproduce. Otherwise all the reproductionists could just host their own works in their museum.