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by ppod 1683 days ago
The whole point of conceptual art is that reproduction of figurative art is trivial now, so we move up a level. It's easy to reproduce the dot, but it's the conceptual move to dotness that's non-trivial. These ideas are 60 years old (Walter Benjamin) and you're doing a bit of a Two Cultures in reverse by being this simplistic about it.
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Fine. Then ask a totally unskilled person to reproduce both and let's see how many fans can be fooled.
Nit: Benjamin died 80 years ago. Time flies!