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Great Works: Composition in White, Black and Red (1936) Piet Mondrian
People have tried to get computers to compose music, and with some success, especially if the music's form is relatively formulaic. You can program music "in the style of Mozart". It won't be much good, but it can yield something plausible, something Mozart might just have done on an off-day.
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Great Works: Still Life with Peaches (c AD50) Anon
Classical art is often given a classic status. The works of the ancient Greeks and Romans have been taken up by many later artists as supreme examples. At least that's true of their statues and buildings. But when it comes to paintings, there's a problem. Very little remains, and what remains is puzzling.
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The Flea (1665), Robert Hooke
engraving published in his Micrographia
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