Art--You Philistines

[Hastur]

That looks a lot like some Ralph Steadman's or Quentin Blake's later work.

Did you just call Manet a cartoonist.

[de officiis]

That looks a lot like some Ralph Steadman's or Quentin Blake's later work.

Did you just call Manet a cartoonist.

[adwinistrator]

The Death of Socrates
Artist:Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)
Date:1787
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:51 x 77 1/4 in. (129.5 x 196.2 cm)

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

My favorite thing is how much it looks like Socrates is flipping the gods a big 'ol bird.

[heydaralon]

Fuck all you motherfuckers, I'm drinking that Hemlock. The defense rests Bitch! I'm not gonna "Phaedo" the courts decision!

[DBTrek]

[de officiis]

'I think leftism is a disorder'

In the Trump era, the right . . . has its own guerrilla artist: Sabo, a former US marine who works from an apartment-cum-studio in Los Angeles beneath a sign that says “Fuck Tibet”. Another says “Fuck peace”.

Under cover of darkness, he peppers public spaces in LA with images and slogans targeting liberals, whom he associates with “pot-smoking lazy bums” hostile to western values. He puts the same images and slogans on posters, T-shirts and pins which he sells from his website and at Republican party gatherings across the US.

“I think leftism is a mental disorder,” Sabo, 49, said in an interview at his home. “I truly believe I’m fighting the good fight.”

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... d-trump-la

Well, someone needs to do it.

[Fife]

FTW

Man I miss catching Paul Harvey on the radio at noon with my grandfather. :goteam:

[de officiis]

AI Project Produces New Styles of Art

Artificial intelligence is getting pretty good at besting humans in things like chess and Go and dominating at trivia. Now, AI is moving into the arts, aping van Gogh’s style and creating a truly trippy art form called Inceptionism. A new AI project is continuing to push the envelope with an algorithm that only produces original styles of art, and Chris Baraniuk at New Scientist reports that the product gets equal or higher ratings than human-generated artwork.

Researchers from Rutgers University, the College of Charleston and Facebook’s AI Lab collaborated on the system, which is a type of generative adversarial network or GAN, which uses two independent neural networks to critique each other. In this case, one of the systems is a generator network, which creates pieces of art. The other network is the “discriminator” network, which is trained on 81,500 images from the WikiArt database, spanning centuries of painting. The algorithm learned how to tell the difference between a piece of art versus a photograph or diagram, and it also learned how to identify different styles of art, for instance impressionism versus pop art.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Inceptionism. Needs work.

(It looks like they just fractally repeat pieces of an image and call it "art")