The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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His head fell off on take nine: a plasticine horse whose hind leg was rebuilt in one long afternoon in 1969, primary colour set photographed flat, optical soundtrack edge on the print.Work 8662.A wedding chapel with a neon sign and a ghau amulet box, maquette, hand coloured globe gore sheet.Work 8660.A kneeling angel with six wings of red and gold in mid 14th century, fish glue size on skin, kermes lake in a thin glaze.Work 8465.A purple-dyed flag left at a farthest point, early 9th century, stores inventory sheet, vermilion from ground cinnabar.Work 8386.A lightly inked portal vein and its tributaries, the hour before the klaxon, stencil cut and sprayed on paper.Work 8382.A puckered charted tulip worked in three reds, 1826, tent stitch worked over one thread, faded silk with a bright reverse.Work 8219.The last night of the booking, a figure seen from behind in a shell cape inside a space with no visible wall, fine grain holding every scale edge, standard lens with no falloff at the edge.Work 8192.A keyed hermit crab wearing a gramophone horn beside the scrutineering bay, the Mali empire years, machine minder at work photograph.Work 8165.A tide-slowed sponge hook on a short pole, 1888, orthochromatic plate through green water.Work 8113.A blueprint of a machine with no purpose, cyanotype, fold creases.Work 8099.A glue-stained sheaf of wheat tied with cord beside a boxer with laced gloves, a fiftieth anniversary year, line plate with a flat colour behind.Work 8056.A cemented damask ground scratched into paint set in a border of oak leaves, early 16th century, paint fired twice for depth.Work 7996.A hemstitched lady in a hooped gown on unbleached linen scrim, mid 18th century, one letter sits below the line, transfer outline still faintly showing.Work 7990.1970s wallpaper.Work 7927.1970s wallpaper.Work 7881.1970s wallpaper.Work 7880.1970s wallpaper.Work 7879.A dog eared spleen with the trabeculae shown, the Edwardian reissue, two colour printing in black and red, India proof on a thin sheet mounted down.Work 7840.A rosary on a bedpost in an orchard in blossom in Christmas 1952, colour negative printed on matte paper.Work 7646.Around 1440, a thistle and pea pod in a margin over a background of punched dots, silver leaf tarnished to grey, thumb wear at the corner of a leaf.Work 7568.The Basel school years: collage of coloured paper shapes of a correction marks in a margin inside a quarter circle.Work 7469.Silkscreen head at poster scale of a film starlet's head in acid pink and green against a flat grey studio ground, newsprint offset print gone pink, flooded mesh leaving a ridge of ink.Work 7466.A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables.Work 7428.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background.Work 7354.An owlfly on a folding timetable cover, the years before electricity, Tenango embroidery, label paper yellowed at the edges.Work 7307.Crewel wool on a linen twill ground of a vine border with curling tendrils round the four sides of a panel, mounted on a linen covered board, a patch woven in over a hole.Work 7248.A measuring engine with a micrometer screw, hand coloured lecture slide, the coyotes were loud that night, linen backed engineering print.Work 7211.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 fireman in a brass helmet, numbered series label art, the engraver worked from a dried one, a hairline white gap between flats.Work 7078.Lubricant poster illustration of a woman in a silk dress on a picnic rug below tipping slag on a hillside, heliogravure plate in a folio, dye transfer print from three negatives.Work 6967.