Art of the Day Thread
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- _niko12
- and all this mountain of work before age 28, fucking hell._niko
- Visit https://www.leopoldm… for moregrafician
- < these look flat online, but irl the paintings have amazing details, a lot of crazy layeringgrafician
- He’s the only reason I went to Vienna. Love his work. Fuck Klimt, that poserGnash
- Dude design his clothes and furniture as wellGnash
- See also: Rachel's album Music for Egon Schiele (one of my all time favorites) https://www.youtube.…skwiotsmith
- master of masters!renderedred
- One of the greatest. Truly a style master. Crazy sad that he died of Spanish flu.PhanLo
- https://i.imgur.com/…imbecile
- Ah Phanlo I just assumed it was heroin lol also, welcome back!_niko
- as a gd i have always been a fan. just so essentialAQUTE
- Someone give his models a burger!mort_
- He had an incestuous relationship with his younger sister at 16, her 12, and often used teenage girls as models. Arrested for kidnapping/seducing a 13 year old!whatthefunk
- These are like crime scene sketches, jesuswhatthefunk
- Is it true that the dude was a straight up pedo and rapist?utopian
- https://www.theartne…Gnash
- Love the work. The movie about him is pretty good too. Goes into the pedo charges.cannonball1978
- I'd never heard of him until going to the Leopold. His style was ahead by a century.i_monk
- srhadden0
How is this not just a plotter? A very slow and low-resolution plotter. All its speeches are pre-written mumbo jumbo by the owners. It's just an arm plotting a pencil or dipping a brush in prepared pots of paint.
It's not able to clean brushes between colors, so unless humans switch brushes between colors the marks progressively become sloppier. It can't set up its own paints or choose colors, this all has to be prechosen, laid out and mapped by humans.
There's no decision in mark making. The marks it makes are just the result of how content the programmers are with how they can get the arm to perform, which is then always identical, except maybe for when excess paint acumulates on a brush. But it's also not aware of the amount of paint on the brush, it just mechanistically transfers the brush between the pots and the paper.
The result of this process is then supposedly 'inspired' by expressionism, whereas that is simply the painterly style that closest resembles the best this machine can do.
It doesn't really paint from live models. The computer inside has to be fed a photograph (or captured by the eye camera) which the arm then plots. Any layering or decisions about the styles for each layer are all executed by humans.
There are almost zero process videos of this machine. Certainly no videos of the whole process from start to finish. Because it's all just a bunch of humans creating art, with elements of it plotted by this machine. All the decisions and 'embillishments' and touch-ups that cause the artworks to look like complete objects are man made. The sculptures are even more farcical in that respect.
The owners suggesting that some people find this scary and problematic is obviously just them manipulating the narrative by implying that this machine is somehow cutting-edge.
Not saying that the images are worthless, but they are for the most part created by humans who are using a paint plotter, then placing the plotter front and center trying to convince people the plotter is actually the one who created the artworks.
This machine is the equivalent of smearing some paints on the CMYK heads of a printer, adding a cell phone running chat GPT told beforehand to spew bullshit about dystopic literature and cybernetic art to any question asked, dressing the wole contraption in coveralls and calling it an 'ai artist'.
- PhanLo1
- I remember seeing "The Cremaster Cycle" by Matt Barney at the Guggenheim back in 2003. His work was both deeply disturbing and fascinating.utopian
- https://www.guggenhe…utopian
- renderedred2
Wallace Polsom, Dream House CV (30 Oct 2024), paper collage, 20 x 24.5 cm
https://therepublicofletters.tum…
- renderedred2
Biggest Art Heists in History
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