[sriku]

Visual Jabberwocky? (Possibly made by a GAN?)

Here is Alice on Jabberwocky ...

“It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand! … Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas–only I don’t exactly know what they are!”

[dalbasal]

Perfect analogy. This image is a visual nonsense poem... or would be if it were more poetic.

It's fascinating to me. Both feel like they take my brain to the threshold of understanding and then it just gets stuck.

[oska]

I disagree that it's a 'perfect analogy'. Jabberwocky is a poem created by a human that, while it contains made-up nonsense words, still makes sense. (The hero seeks out a fearsome monster, fights it, is victorious and is lauded for his victory on his return). The poem is aesthetically pleasing and intentionally playful in containing an element of nonsense but not too much.

This picture, on the other hand, is nothing like a 'visual nonsense poem' for me. It's artificially generated and not aesthetically pleasing. It's mildly disconcerting and beyond that, uninteresting.

[vanderZwan]

The way you phrase this suggests an unawareness of the fact that one comes to aesthetic judgement through interpretive frames, which are formed through personal experience and knowledge, and therefore express your aesthetic interpretations as more factual than they are.

I recommend Talk about a Painting: A Cognitive Developmental Analysis by Michael Parsons, can be found online easily.