"Despite multiple assurances that they could have done it as well, I'm still not aware of any modern art coming out of HN." I've made abstract art for decades.

"Despite multiple assurances that they could have done it as well, I'm still not aware of any modern art coming out of HN." I've made abstract art for decades. I don't share it with HN as that's not really what HN is for, and I'm pretty private about it anyway. I very much doubt I'm the only artist on HN either. Just because you haven't seen HN users' art doesn't mean they don't make any. That said, I fully agree that many non-artists underestimate how difficult it is to make some art. Also, there's something to be said for doing it first and stretching the definition of what counts as art, no matter how technically "easy" it was. The quintessential example of this being Malevich's "Black Square".[1] After Malevich, it could be argued that much of the rest of modern art whose main point was to show that "anything can be considered art" could be seen as just minor variations. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Square_%28painting%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Square_%28painting%29