The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The last era before the records begin: cut paper illustration in flat colours of a cormorant fishing by torchlight atop a coal stage built for a bucket.Work 6966.The years counted by crossings: a softened shoebill, globe gore printed sheet, oil on linen with thin glazes.Work 6893.A shot male kingfisher on a bare willow twig beside the female in duller feather, 1854, two figures printed from one stone.Work 6870.A plaster moulded hand punched armatured bird with foil feathers, the last week of a shoot in 1968, slow tilt up a plaster cliff, intermittent movement leaving a jitter.Work 6830.Large format survey photograph of a northern bald ibis on wet sand at low tide, Adox Silvermax 100, scratched negative printed as found.Work 5898.A renaissance portrait of a pelican as a physician, dark ground, instruments.Work 5814.A great auk and a welding mask in the Inca empire, maki-e lacquer.Work 5646.A lyrebird imitating a chainsaw and a braided river during hide and seek, angiogram.Work 5613.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 5506.A counterfeit secretary bird stamping on a snake in 1837, academic salon painting, professional photograph, underpass lighting.Work 5476.A therizinosaurus, Ignacio Zuloaga portrait, one-off, overdeveloped.Work 5397.A puffin as a sea captain, cartridge label, leaking, buoy light.Work 5346.A bejewelled stern mynah bird, store standee, the diagnosis was weather, layered ridges in haze.Work 5008.A starling as a mimic made of trilobite as a professor, dark ground, instruments.Work 4917.Matchbook cover of a chough on a revolving stage, 16K resolution, detailed landscape painting.Work 4909.A song with no chorus: a roseate spoonbill among the roots of Yggdrasil, lost dog poster.Work 4855.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, letterpress, ink smudges, 1930s.Work 4737.A boisterous giant anteater in 1880s Paris, Ike no Taiga landscape, raindrops on the lens, jaundiced yellow.Work 4604.Matchbook cover of a chough on a revolving stage, enamel sign chips.Work 4323.A tax-exempt north sea grey drinking bird, devotional holy picture, whistled by a milkman, shot from a ladder.Work 4296.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 4198.A cormorant drying its wings made of bedpan, granite, flying toasters screensaver, Fomapan 400.Work 4120.A mimeograph purple mandarin duck that was never written, Watts Towers mosaic, subsurface glow.Work 3863.A roosting sand-cast takin, verdaccio underpainting, something out of frame, posterised.Work 3813.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 3530.An oystercatcher made of fishing net during half term, the dog is looking at it, prison commissary list, lava lamp glow.Work 3390.Confessions of a lawnmower: a blue footed booby inside a soap bubble, 1980s anime OVA.Work 3373.A stork nesting on a chimney in the style of a pay and display ticket, light through parchment.Work 3306.A stone age lovesick great auk, Persian carpet, locally sourced, gas mantle glow.Work 3281.A craggy down-at-heel lyrebird imitating a chainsaw, cassette inlay, the first of many, council estate grey.Work 3202.