I remember reading an article about an instructor who was leading a class on generative art, and one of the students was trying to recreate Mondriaan-style artw

I remember reading an article about an instructor who was leading a class on generative art, and one of the students was trying to recreate Mondriaan-style artworks on the computer. But when they looked deeply into his art, they realized just how painterly his art was, even the "lines and boxes" pieces, in a way that was really difficult to replicate on a computer.