Jan 04 2010
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Computer Method Finds Fake Art (via BBC News)
A simple method to distinguish artistic fakes and imitations has been demonstrated by researchers. The approach, known as “sparse coding”, builds a virtual library of an artist’s works and breaks them down into the simplest possible visual elements. Verifiable works by that artist can be rebuilt using varying proportions of those simple elements, while imitators’ works cannot….
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![Rare Ansel Adams Print of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (via National Parks Traveler)
A rare shot of Great Smoky Mountains National Park taken by Ansel Adams shortly after World War II has been acquired by a Knoxville, Tennessee, museum….
The Knoxville Museum of Art was able to acquire Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, 1948, which was taken by Mr. Adams as part of his work on a Guggenheim Fellowship to document America’s national parks and monuments. The trip to the Smokies was reportedly his first and only visit to Tennessee.
While Yosemite National Park offered the photographer dazzling waterfalls, granite domes, and shimmering lakes for his cameras, the Smokies were a bit more challenging for him.
“The Smokys [sic] are OK in their way, but they are going to be devilish hard to photograph…,” he wrote a friend in October 1948.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuo40kLTJk1qzv83eo1_400.jpg)
