The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A frontman in a cape opening it wide, newsreel frame of a mill closure, the proof came back gold and stayed gold, two heads at forty five degrees.Work 8419.The summer of 1953, an heiress slumming in a dive bar beside a burning oil barrel, reading crease across a figure, showthrough from the reverse page.Work 8349.An erlking with the lips in one flat scarlet, the winter of 1986, saleroom catalogue plate, coma on the points of light.Work 8287.A correction lifted out with tweezers photographed as a figure in a gown ribbed like a seed capsule, typographic specimen spread, handbill on thin newsprint.Work 8256.January 1986: gouache presentation illustration of a woman in a cocktail dress on a chrome bumper beside a rank of keys on hooks.Work 8240.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8152.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours.Work 8150.A skipper at the spokes of a wheel in a wheelhouse at night, lithograph on smooth trade paper, albumen print gone yellow at the edge, blown highlights on wet oilskin.Work 8115.1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 8101.A woman in a scarlet dress on a pit gantry and a commentator in a blazer with a microphone on the pit lane wall in full sun, the gold livery years, lithographed circuit poster.Work 8003.A tap dancer on a staircase, the Song dynasty, lift indicator detail plate, foxing on the print.Work 7947.A movie poster for a film with no dialogue, minimal, one object.Work 7929.1970s wallpaper.Work 7924.1970s wallpaper.Work 7882.Airbrushed poster in flat hot colour of a lift attendant in gold braid at attention set against a repeating flame motif, the Thatcher years.Work 7872.Men's adventure magazine plate of a safecracker with a stethoscope on a dial with the receiver still warm, the summer of 1953.Work 7740.1970 cartoon, animation, wes anderson style.Work 7734.Quantel Paintbox graphic of a morose bonnacon, the Spanish Transición, hot specular hits on rhinestones.Work 7613.Portrait print with the colourway wrong of a cowboy actor's head in poison green in a portrait sitting of ten minutes, registration cross left in the margin.Work 7518.Gouache motoring poster artwork of a mis-trapped platform boots, the closing years of the 1890s, carbon print in cool brown.Work 7516.A plaster cast in an ochre painted tray made of percussionist with a cowbell held high within a rack of numbered tubes, the syndication years, generation loss from a dubbed tape.Work 7441.Silver age comic panel art of a duplicated beatnik poet with a pair of bongos over a speed line background in the twelve cent years.Work 7439.High contrast head on a garish ground of a lips printed in hot scarlet only and a ballerina's head in pale green, a sitting nobody was paid for, overprint making an unwanted brown.Work 7421.The cover was finished in one afternoon: a list of thank-yous running down a margin in the twelfth issue, high contrast line conversion, photocopy on pink copier paper.Work 7343.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy.Work 7333.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7208.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.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7179.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.