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"Divan Japonais", by Toulouse Lautrec
 

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Another Banksy, quite relevant to modern culture, I think.

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Interesting article...Could a computer ever create better art than a human? :shrug:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47700701


And then there's this...http://www.faena.com/aleph/articles/the-sophisticated-and-exciting-art-created-by-animals/
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Years ago we had a discussion about AI-created music, and I listened to all the music linked to that was AI-created and heard nothing that wowed me, though it was impressive. There is AI that can even perform music on real instruments, but it's a bit on the clumsy side.

That being said, if one were to hear a piece of music - or look at a work of art - and NOT know that it was created by AI, would we know the difference? Let's face it, most of us aren't music experts, nor art afficianados. Most average people, I believe, would not be able to distinguish between human-created music or art if they were not clued-in beforehand.

There's a great exchange in the film I, Robot, where detective Spooner asks Sonny the robot: "Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?"

Sonny responds, "Can you?" Spooner looks befuddled and has no answer. Well, he does, he just doesn't want to say it.

Quite frankly, that AI generated portrait at the link doesn't look too bad to me. Without prior knowledge, there would be no way I'd know it wasn't created by a human artist. After all, for all the great art we know of, there is a massive amount of the mediocre, and just as much of the downright terrible.

The ultimate fact is that art is subjective. A masterpiece to one might be a piece of dung to another. Regardless, I don't think it's a stretch to consider that eventually AI will be creating works of art in all media that will rival and perhaps surpass human achievement.

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As for animals other than humans creating art - I have no problem with that either. We don't know what goes on in the brain of a great ape, or an elephant, or even a cat for that matter. We know the basics, especially instinctually-based behaviors, but we can't know it all.

I saw an elephant who painted pictures and even drew the letters of its name - but I do not know if this was genuine or some kind of smoke-and-mirrors act.

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This AI-generated work is interesting. It's somewhat reminiscent of Barry Moser's drawings for an edition of Dante's Inferno I have. The bad part is there are no brushstrokes, and the work looks blatantly digital:

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ETA: These are drawings for Inferno by Rico Lebrun:

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Moser doesn't consider himself an "artist"! Can you dig it? :p



Which one of his drawings from "Inferno" are you talking about? I like Barry Moser, but I don't like the AI paintings generated by Robbie Barrat.
 
Moser did many drawings - they are drawings and sketches, not paintings - for Inferno. They are included in a copy I have of an English translation by Allen Mandelbaum. I don't refer to any particular image, though I had in mind some of the ones that morph bodies or figures together. These drawings can be seen on Google or Bing, and elsewhere. Unfortunately, I didn't find any of the best ones.
 
George Grie, Angel of Light

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This is for Kharakov, because it's so cheerful and uplifting.
 
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