Earasing the Mona Lisa

From Replaced Mona Lisa, via Today and Tomorrow.

So what would happen if you erased the famed Mona Lisa and left nothing but the landscape behind her?

This is what Mike Ruiz came up with using Photoshop Content Aware-Fill tool, and then had the image was sent to a painting manufacturer in China. So props to Mike Ruiz for trying this out. But is this really art? All he used was a digital tool, then didn't even attempt himself at painting it. No oil technique, no silk screening, nothing like that. So how do we value art nowadays? He is not the first to do this, and surely won't be the last.