The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7312.1836, a glove puppet baker with a floury bib before a hill of papier mache, slow film on a long bellows, graded answer print on double perf.Work 7306.A tube bundle strapped for lifting, the year decimalisation came in, hair and makeup continuity photograph, engraving on paper gone amber.Work 7304.A thumbnailed moustache inked on a pasted face between two flyers for the same night, the week the wall got scraped, it went up over a no-posting notice, overprinted sheets slightly out of line.Work 7302.Christmas 1976: typed lyrics copied twice over of an Azerbaijani mugham trio along a rail pair a foot apart.Work 7299.A reckless reporter with a flashbulb and a fedora in a wet March in 1951, flat proof before the black went down, creased spine with white breaks.Work 7292.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7287.A nine-strong clavinet player in gold sunglasses beside a woman in thigh-high silver boots, the first tour year, television music show frame.Work 7286.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7285.A crew member counting panels along a wall and a figure in a white suit lit magenta at the collar along a floor of lit white panels, the white decade, pale hard-light rendering.Work 7273.Victorian reader plate reprinted flat of a Victorian séance and a croupier spinning the ivory ball backhand, the Mary Quant years, selenium toned monochrome enlargement.Work 7262.A slicked gangster's profile in flat scarlet inside a bus station of flat panels, the second sitting, the pink was mixed until it hurt to look at, photo-stencil portrait print.Work 7242.Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7240.A man in mirrored shades lighting a long cigarette photographed as a cider label with the yellow off the edge, silkscreen poster in four flat inks, broken type where the plate scratched.Work 7236.A pod-shaped figure in a tunic of lacquered bark plates in the year of the borrowed studio, warm print with a cool ground, biro price written over the printed one.Work 7233.Stipple engraving of a specimen of a gentleman in a worked coat, linen thread on unbleached linen, tacked to a backing of old newsprint.Work 7212.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7208.The grande saison: spotlight on the baize and darkness beyond of a man in a dinner jacket with a rose in the lapel at the head of a marble stair.Work 7198.The summer of 1948, a dumpling pleats being folded among the cameras at the podium, colour saturated beyond the eye, light raking across a plain wall.Work 7190.A head of a drumhead cabbage on a slate outside a greengrocer, letterpress with a stock engraving, paper showing through the flat colour.Work 7184.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7179.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7168.A chipped enamel whitlow bandaged with tape in the seventh transit, print struck for a single dominant hue, all middle tones and no black.Work 7161.A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block.Work 7152.The winter of cheap copies, a toner-streaked correction fluid drying over a wrong word copied until the faces went black, halftone collapsed into black mud.Work 7149.A boot caked white to the ankle beyond the reach of the last track, acrylic on a white primed panel, pigment ink on bright cotton paper, offset lithograph in two flat inks.Work 7139.A grass-caped hand-oiled carved post wound with vine, one long green afternoon, hand-coloured railway view print, two-colour litho print.Work 7137.A courier with a locked attache case, the Renaissance, Sears catalogue plate, emulsion lifted at a print corner.Work 7134.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7124.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7106.