Baudelaire’s Ideas of Vagueness and Uniqueness in Art: Algorithm-Based Explanations

According to the analysis by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, famous poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire described (and followed) two main—somewhat unusual—ideas about art: that art should be vague, create an object of art, one needs aim for uniqueness. In this paper, we provide algorithm-based explanation these seemingly counter-intuitive ideas, related Kolmogorov complexity-based formalization Garrett Birkhoff’s theory beauty.